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Our latest seminar on hand synchronization is up. It’s a major addition to the platform and fills in a meaningful gap in the current sequence. @tommo really knocked it out of the park on this one.
Hand synchronization in general, and chunking specifically, is one of the earliest Crackng The Code concepts, going back all the way to the original 1992 independent study. I didn’t create the concept, of course, but I borrowed it from psychology without actually knowing at the time that it is the actual concept used in neuroscience to describe motor memory. So it’s a pretty foundational concept to motor skill acquisition, and it’s taken us literally decades to figure out some of the concepts you’ll see in the seminar. It’s great to see it in a fully evolved form in our teaching.
Also note that there is a ton of fretting in Synchronicity, but it’s not a lesson on fretting mechanics. That’s a separate subject, and we wanted to leave spaced for an eventual @Tom_Gilroy seminar on that. So instead we focus on testing the output - whatever your fretting is - to figure out which parts are hanging in there with your picking.
The same is true of the picking side. It’s not a lesson on how to perform picking motions - that’s the Primer. But it is about testing how well that motion is working in combination with what you’re doing on the fretting side. This distinction means that Synchronicity slots it very cleanly right alongside the current Primer and future frettinhg-specific and ergonomic / postural instruction, so we’re really happy about that.
The whole seminar is 40+ lessons and we have the first few groups up already, along with all three etudes and all 32 “rudiments” that we came up with for rapidly generating huge numbers of fun practice patterns. We’ll be rolling out the rest over the next couple weeks so stay tuned!
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Thank you so much for doing this! Appreciate all of your hard work!!!
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This is exactly what I needed. Thank you!!!
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Super proud of the work we did together here!
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