Originally Posted by: fr3akGreat information in this thread. One question though, what are "muscle memory exercises"?

I'm sure there are better descriptions, but it is essentially rote training. You just keep doing the same movement over and over and over, concentrating on form and not speed or strength (not at first) but the movement. You do this until such a time is reached where your fingers are already moving to a, say, C chord, without you having to think about how to form it and moving your fingers to it.

You'll have muscle memory. Your subconscious will move your hands before your conscious mind 'thinks' of the movement.

You do a lot of this training in sports. It's HUGE in martial arts. You have to throw a thousand front kicks before your leg will kick before you order it.

Or so my instructor told me. :cool: