I have a couple songs that require real track chord changes on beat 3 of a 4 beat measure. (example: /G . . ./. . D ./) The problem is that the transition sounds to abrupt. I know the real tracks are sewn together so to speak but is there any way to get a smoother transition with out going into the DAW to manually cut in a smoother transition from an even chord transition.

I have tried doing pushes on the individual measure and have tried repeating the last chord from the previous measure on beat 1 but can't get rid of the abrupt transition. Very unnatural and sounds rushed. I have tried multiple styles and individual real track substitutions but nothing is really sitting well. I can fix it in the DAW but it's very time consuming.

Does anyone have any suggestions.