| A comfortable environment where you can leave out | | | | setting will become one of the vital cues your mind |
| your guitar and practice materials is often convenient. | | | | associates with your musical knowledge and skills. |
| Mac Guitar Pro ReaderIt helps you start practice easily | | | | When you try to play elsewhere these cues and |
| and quickly, and might encourage you to practice more | | | | associations are not there and your mind puts your |
| often. | | | | musical knowledge somewhere to the back of your |
| But if you always practice in the same place it could | | | | mind. |
| become a pitfall, a pitfall that leads problems when you | | | | * How to Solve the Problem |
| play in unfamiliar places. | | | | Play EXISTING riffs and patterns with speed and |
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| Have you already had the experience of being unable | | | | Fortunately, this pitfall is easy to fix. You simply need to |
| to perform a piece that you seemed to master during | | | | shake up your practice habits from time to time to |
| practice? A song you played quite easily in your | | | | reduce your mind's dependence on your practice |
| practice room becomes filled with mistakes when you | | | | setting. To ensure you are comfortable and play easily |
| play it somewhere else. | | | | in the places you want to perform, it's a good idea to |
| Why is this? Can you suddenly become worse at | | | | spend some time practicing in a similar environment. |
| playing the guitar, forget what you seemed to know? | | | | Introduce some changes by getting out and about to |
| Well, no, you don't forget but you can find that what | | | | play elsewhere. Move to other rooms in your house to |
| you know becomes inaccessible to you because of | | | | play, stand up instead of sitting down - or vice-versa, |
| the way your memory works. | | | | go to the park or some other place outdoors and play. |
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| Our memories love to organize knowledge and create | | | | Want to improve your ability to play anywhere without |
| links between things. Your guitar knowledge is no | | | | mysteriously forgetting and messing up the music? |
| exception. Your memory constantly attaches new | | | | Make a commitment to shake up your guitar practice |
| knowledge to familiar things uses these same things | | | | environment. Get out and practice in three different |
| as cues to retrieve the knowledge when you need it. | | | | places this week. |
| If you always practice in the same setting, then that | | | | |