I wasn’t looking for skill learning examples, I was trying to do some actual skill learning. Specifically, I was thinking about improving my quite lame guitar playing. I picked up an instructional DVD (from a guitar player/teacher I had discovered on youtube) and accidentally discovered an example of how a skill teacher might describe skill learning to capture the interplay of conscious and implicit learning. I couldn’t resist grabbing the description as a 2-minute segment:

In case you’re wondering, this is what he plays that first got my attention on youtube. The DVD promises that I, too, can learn to play like this. I’m working on it but not holding my breath.

Update: I think I should probably add in a link to Adam Rafferty’s site since he has one.