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With regards to the issue of crossing strings you have to work out if you're an upward pick slanter or a downward pick slanter and then organize your lines to suit.
Learn what you’re trying to play at slow tempo, then push it knowing full well you’re going to crash and burn. Then slow it down, again, regroup and then push it again.
I'd not come across Martin Miller before but he talks a lot of sense and, from some of his other videos, he's clearly a great player as well.
The old "practise slow and speed it up" technique never worked for me but I've been making good progress with burst playing and chunking. I'm still not fast by most people's standards but I think that's due to the stop/start nature of my practising. I'm sure if I stuck to it religiously for 6 months I'd see huge gains. I guess the old advice must have worked for some that it's stuck around so long though.
couldn’t agree more with the link
It's a great video, I downloaded it from Youtube and am keeping it in my guitar lessons folder. A lot of it is also discussed in Martin's interview with Troy Grady and also Troy has some interviews with Dr Noa Kageyama about performance psychology and how to optimize your practice habits. They also talk about chunking / closed loops. It's an interesting concept that I'd never heard of until a lot of months ago, but it certainly makes sense.
I had discovered it that same day and having applied the concept of practising beyond my limits I can confirm that significant speed increase quickly follows.
Years of playing and following the old “slow and seek perfection” advice had made me a slow but very neat and tidy player. The only times I ever got fast was when playing live for hours at a time I’d reach a point of not caring and just get faster and faster with attendant mess and mistakes. Now I realise that I should have been doing that more often.
One analogy I've thought about in this context is golf. You don't start off trying to make perfect contact with a slow swing and hit the ball 30 yards. You try to hit it reasonably hard. And sometimes you shank it, or miss it, or hook it or slice it and sometimes you hit it sweetly. But you have a feedback system in operation that lets you learn which movements are leading to which outcomes so you can refine what you're doing and gradually you learn to avoid the misses and shanks and cut down the slices and hooks. The fact that you made mistakes doesn't mean you're practising to make mistakes: the mistakes are part of the feedback system by which you learn to stop making them.