for SylvSylv
I’m not answering on the behalf of anyone - but the way I am doing it, is to ensure the first pattern gets 21 days. After that I will continue to repeat 2, 3, 4, 5 etc, and reduce no 2 the next day, and the next pattern each day removing one more.
It’s obviously something that works, but not a panacea.
I hear what you’re saying about the first item to be practiced ends up getting the most practice time in by the end of the 7 days (if you’re working on 7 scale patterns for example), but therein lies the aspect of continuing for the 21 days. By that time, all the patterns should be comfortable and into our DNA. Because as much as the earlier patterns do get extra practice time in, the extra time (after their initial 18 minutes) is really just for polishing up what had been worked on previously.
I’ve noticed in my use of the process (and noticed in friends’ and students’ use as well) that by the 2nd week, all the patterns are equally comfortable and locked-in.
Likewise, while practicing a new item and previous items, as much as my teacher had mentioned about playing them equally as you build up your patterns, I don’t see any harm in polishing up the newer patterns a few extra times more than the older patterns. i.e. - if you’re on day 5 pattern 5, after your break, you could play pattern 5 for 5 mintues, pattern 4 for 4 minutes, 3 for three, etc. But when ya think about it, it may be overthinking. Any time I went to practice previous patterns after a new pattern, I just made sure all the patterns played and sounded equally great.
How are most of you printing the pages out? I have attempted a few ways but the copies I am getting are blurred. Thanks
I’m not sure about the blurry print out. I just tried downloading one of the pages to do a test printout of it and it came out as clear as the original. 
I pulled it up at home and it was ok. It appears to have been an issue with my work computer system.
I’m pulling this one up. I hope Dave is still healthy and feel as if this system has merit and warrants discussion.
Thanks for bumping. Looks like a great way for me to finally learn melodic minor with this 21 day approach.
You’re welcome, bud. I’m glad the mods allowed me to bump it. I found this method here, got Maltz’s book etc during the plandemic. I have been pleased with the results whenever I am emotionally mature enough to follow thru with it.
When I tried to print out the four pages they were faded for me too. Maybe I’ll try again as it sure is a good read.
While I’m thinking about it, I want to post some examples of how well Psycho Cybernetics has worked for me.
Here’s how I put this system to work:
Two examples in one in this…
I had the fuel pump out on my old Dodge. You have to remove the bed to get to the top of the tank. I’ve done this the hard way by hand with a breaker bar and I have done it other times on previous vehichles when I could borrow a battery powered impact driver.
Since I didn’t have access to the power tool this time, I decided to buy one. This was to be my first tool in the process of switching over to Milwaukee from Makita. So I wanted the tool, charger, two six amp hour batteries and a hard case. Looked around online and could only find this in one configuration or another. The one combo that had it all came with a soft bag instead of a hard case for around $515 shipped.
I decided to shop locally at a farm store we have in the Midwest called Rural King. And I’d set this in my mind what I was gonna get. I knew the target existed, my goal was to find it. At Rural King they had abiut every Milwaukee tool; some in sets but according to a couple clerks and the manager, it was not available with a hard box and not with two batteries. By the time I put it all together, the price was cranked higher than the online deal and no case or bag.
While the dust cleared, I inspected the tool aisle and noticed a tag for a kit like I’d described above. It had a promo attached, that if you also purchased a Milwaukee 40 piece bit kit in a little hard plastic box, for $28 along with the kit, you would get a $100 instant savings.
The manager stated that the tool kit did not exist at his location and that they’d been waiting on the bit kit to ship for months and it was not in stock. That supply chain story you heard for two years….,
However, I’d determined it did exist and that both were in stock and I kept looking. There were six of the complete battery tool kits on a high shelf on the back wall and within five minutes after I insisted the manager dig thru a pallet of boxes that just rolled into the tool area…presto there was the 40 piece bit kit also.
I walked out with the whole shooting match for $430 after tax which was $85 cheaper than the bare tool, charger, two 6 AH batteries was going to be before tax…without any case and no bits.
I’d simply sent the information to my subconscious and it went to work to find and hit my goal.
Ok you could attribute finding and buying the Milwaukee impact driver to pure good luck, coincidence, or to a conspiracy to commit deception by the store manager and/or the sales team that I busted. Or you can say my perseverence won the day. You could combine any of those factors and say there you are.
I was acutely aware however even on the 25 mile drive down there that I was practicing a proven system.
Here’s another example that shows how this kind of process works:
Here we can eliminate the knowledge of Psycho Cybernetics from the equation because it happened in 1983 when I was 12.
In sixth grade, I was obsessed with shotguns, hunting, trapping, camping and especially fishing.
I had a subscription to both Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines, knew about everything a kid could know from books about fish and fishing and had one burning aspiration above the rest; to catch a sunfish called a Yellow Perch.
My Dad told me it wasn’t going to happen as the sunfish in our area were all bluegills and that beyond this fact I would not catch any game fish in a creek in our part of Illinois as the creeks were very shallow and depleted.
A small winding creek was what I had access to near the spot where I went camping. All the odds were stacked against me except for one thing; I’d already set my subconscious to the task of catching a Yellow Perch in a creek in Southern Illinois.
One May afternoon, I was down at my camping spot organizing things and decided to try and fish in a three foot deep hole in the creek. I had a piece of line in my survival kit which I kept in a waterproof yellow tube with a screw lid you could send in and get if you ate enough Pringles. I tied on a hook, got a stick for a pole and tried using a bug for bait as it was after school and I couldn’t find a nightcrawler. The bug split in half and would not stay on the hook so I dipped the hook in the creek with my homemade rig with no bait and pulled out a small fat Yellow Perch on the first try. Bare hook, lousey creek in a part of the world where all the experts in my life had stated unequivocally that the species I’d just angled in with an elm stick for a rod and five feet of green 25# test line—did not exist.
This is how the machinery inside functions.
I’d no way to explain all that until I discovered Dave’s post here on Troy’s site and then followed the lead back to the book he referred to in this thread.
Keith