21 Day Method

As musicians, the speed and accuracy of our playing is always going to be of great importance- and any method that claims to help with this aspect of our playing is always worth checking out (provided it is not so bad it causes injury!).

Recently I was on the Ultimate Guitar Forum, and came across this thread. If you dont want to read through all of that, I will explain the basic idea here. The claim is that if you practice a lick at a slow speed (a speed where you can do it with total accuracy) for 21 days, it would have worked its way into your muscle memory.

This means you will be able to speed it up to super-fast speeds with total accuracy after 21 days.

Why 21 days? Well, the theory goes that three weeks is the amount of time it takes something to become habit. So, importantly, is this true? I dont know if the science behind this works, but I’m willing to give this a go. I will let you know in about 3 weeks if it has worked or not.

Also, I would be interested to hear from anyone that has tried this already. Maybe it hasnt worked? Maybe its worked really well?

As I said, I’m giving this idea a go, I look forward to the results

Read the results here.

June 29, 2009 at 3:26 am | Practicing and Practice Routine | No comments