...just reminded of a couple more tips...

1) Joan--when a person "feels" a hand postion, they are using the right brain for learning. It's best to not talk when doing these exercises because that's a left brain activity. On the piano we can play many chords using the same hand position, or transpose melodies going by "feel", ie. just moving to another place on the keyboard and playing the same relative sequence of notes. Not sure how you do this on the guitar. Also, in your step 1, the student can "feel" the chord when they are away from the instrument. (playing air guitar) I think in sports, all the visualization exercises reinforce the "feel" of an activity.

2) Rick--In all types of learning, it seems that the more senses you use, the quicker you learn. When I had to memorize new German vocabulary words I would 1) WRITE them on a piece of paper 2) SAY them out loud as I wrote and listen to the pronunciation. Usually I could memorize 25 words in just a few minutes this way. Something about writing them...about three times...and you can memorize just about anything.

Mary