I am at tip 8Steve Wrote:Yes, it's the transitions from chord to chord no matter how small, even lifting a finger can be a challenge!To some degree I think you have to learn to play all the transitions between chords and not just the individual chords.
I noticed on page 7 of the book, he explains briefly that muscle memory doesn't exist.
It's the brain..... good memory helps though ? :ohmy: I can't remember! :S
The Talent Code website mentioned in the book looks interesting too.
I need to go and practice Tip 30 now
Cheers for the book tip....
Dermot
To develop reliable hard skills, you need to connect the right wires in your brain. In this, it helps to be careful, slow, and keenly attuned to errors. Towork like a careful carpenter. A good example of hard-skill carpentry is found in the Suzuki music instruction method. Suzuki students begin by spending several lessonssimply learning to hold the bow and the violin with the right finger curve and pressure, the right stance, the right posture. Using rhyme and repetition,they learn to move the bow (without the violin) “up like a rocket, down like the rain, back and forth like a choo-choo train.” Each fundamental, nomatter how humble-seeming, is introduced as a precise skill of huge importance (which, of course, it really is), taught via a series of vivid images,and worked on over and over until it is mastered. The vital pieces are built, rep by careful rep. Another example can be found on a worn piece of paper inside the wallet of Tom Brady, the three-time Super Bowl–winning quarterback of theNew England Patriots. On that paper is a handwritten list of fundamental keys to throwing technique. All of them are simple (example: “Throw downthe hall”), and all of them connect to the drills Brady’s been doing with his personal coach Tom Martinez since he was fourteen years old. In fact, untilMartinez died in 2012, Brady visited his coach once or twice a year for a tune-up—or, to put it more accurately, a repaving of Brady’s neuralhighways to make sure they were still running smoothly.Precision especially matters early on, because the first reps establish the pathways for the future. Neurologists call this the “sled on a snowy hill”phenomenon. The first repetitions are like the first sled tracks on fresh snow: On subsequent tries, your sled will tend to follow those grooves. “Our brains are good at building connections,” says Dr. George Bartzokis, a neurologist at UCLA. “They’re not so good at unbuilding them.”When you learn hard skills, be precise and measured. Go slowly. Make one simple move at a time, repeating and perfecting it before you moveon. Pay attention to errors, and fix them, particularly at the start. Learning fundamentals only
seems
boring—in fact, it’s the key moment of investment. If you build the right pathway now, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and trouble down the line
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Sorry for awake you from your nap...