Several years ago I watched a documentary about David Beckham (you know him? footballer)who was at the time attending a sports psychologist. The sports psychologist was helping him to practice - when he was not actually playing football, but sitting at home or in a car or plane etc. By concentrating on and visualising the process involved in taking a free kick/penalty, he was affecting the muscle memory, even although the muscles were not actually involved in the process. So I was wondering, has anyone tried this with guitar practice?
If you are sitting watching TV, can you "practice" in your head by brain power alone, going through some patterns/modes/scales, or an awkward chord change or picking pattern.
I would be interested to hear from any of you coaches or trainers who can explain how or if this process actually works
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ps Always concentrate on the road when driving
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pps I'm not talking about memorising scales etc by rote, but about actually improving playing performance