C6 foot/pedal problems

[hhguitar]

I've been working my tail off for a few months trying to get the C6 neck down. I'm having a problem with my foot jumping back and forth on the C6 pedals and landing on the right pedal. I'm kinda using the 6&7 pedals as "home base" since that's what seems to be in order for this Doug Jernigan-13 Songs for C6 course I've been working with. I'm having the problem moving my foot to the left and using the 4th pedal (usually followed by the 5th pedal). I have the 4th pedal raised up higher than the 3rd or 5th pedal. (my 6th pedal is my lowest pedal, 5 & 7 are about equal in height, 8 is a little higher and 4 is the highest)

Can anybody suggest any exercise or anything that will speed up training my left foot to get the positions of these C6 pedals memorized?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Harry Hess

[Ricky Davis]

Hey Harry here is what I would suggest; and what I work on. I'm fairly new at the C6 tuning myself and continually work on that technique. When I practice at home; I will use my 5th and 6th pedals as home base; cause they are the center point and most used in my playing. The 8th pedal is what I call a bonus pedal and 4th and 7th are the significant others. I will practice the roll between the 5th and 6th and together of course for the diminished. Then then I will just practice moving from my home position to engage just the 7th pedal; as I use that quite a bit. It really is a matter of feeling how far to move the foot to hit just the 7th by it's self and imagery comes in to effect. If you can picture seeing your foot under the guitar(without looking) move from home to the 7th enough times; it will become second nature after a small amount of work. Then the move to the fourth pedal is the same distance the other way and I use the same imagery work on that. Then I will practice my pushing 5th and 6th pedals and work my foot over to engage the 4th and 5th pedals together. Then work that same imagery work for the 6th and 7th pedals together. Then the 8th pedal is something I know I have to move further than any of the other movements and just go that much farther to hit it and usually works out because of the allready memorized movements I have set in my head. I hope all this makes some since and it really is alot of knowing how far your foot moves to do these engagements; and really practice not ever looking down at the pedals. If you make yourself not look at all; then you are training your brain to look and I think that is the key to the whole success of this technique. Have fun and go for it and I hope I was able to help you and by the way; last night at the gig; I missed hitting the right pedal 2 times; so I still have a little more imagery work left; but I'm pretty dang happy with my success so far. Let me know how your turning out.
Ricky