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Here on the Studio we've featured several exercises in our Power series. Each of these exercises features the 8-4-2-1 pattern to build strength, consistency, and power in your fingering technique. Today's featured exercise is the Crunluath Progression Exercise (download here). I designed this exercise to teach the important Crunluath movement in a logical, step-by-step progression. I received my undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound. One of my favorite courses was called Experimental Analysis of Behavior which featured many incredibly interesting and useful ways of learning and teaching new skills. In particular, the process called shaping by successive approximations helps you to learn complex tasks by breaking them down into smaller, simpler steps. (I briefly mentioned shaping in a previous post called Fix the hard parts of your tunes with a step-by-step approach.) Today's exercise takes a complex movement, the Crunluath, and breaks it down into simple, easy-to-understand steps, until the final goal ...