I presume you're talking about putting the pinky down first, when you're moving from the 4 finger G to the 4 finger D?
Yeah. I'm a chord guy (chords always come easier for me than melody), but I found that G to D transition one of the most difficult to develop.
Thinking of the strings 2,3,4 in terms of its being a 3 finger chord played without using your pinky helps. Make that form and then put the pinkie down on the first string. After a while, you can then just move the pinky along with the other changes.
But it takes a while for the fingers to remember all that.
Funny, but after doing all that and making the 4 finger chords pretty automatic, I'm finding that I prefer to use them less now, for reasons of tone, transition, and avoiding boredom.
Just depends on the situation.
If you don't end up finding 4 or 5 ways to make each chord, then you're just not lazy enough.
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