interesting article here on practicing...
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/02/how-m ... -too-much/
rd
How Much Practice is Too Much
A - When you practiced enough to do tendon damage to your thumb so you can't play (or do much else) for two weeks. I am happy to say I am finally back to playing (a little bit anyway). Depressing to not be able to because of injury.
Interesting study.
Scott
Interesting study.
Scott
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Thanks Roger.... that is actually the biggest thing you notice when coaching sport too... it takes less and less energy to produce a more and more refined movement until you reach the point that there is no more conscious thinking involved and everything becomes fully automatic. The expression muscle memory is often used but it is also obvious that its about efficiency and minimal energy too.
RD- That is great stuff! The artilcle looks at mastery as a motor-neuron event but for us guitar players I believe that memory is at least as important. Many songs I can play well but I have a devil of a time remembering how to play them; notes, chords, lyrics etc.
I feel his point of "over mastery" is spot on. Great guitarists don't "play" their instruments so much as they feel them. Their mastery becomes automatic and complete and their expression is the beauty of the song and not so much the physical act of plucking and fretting strings in the correct order.
When I watch videos of myself playing I work so hard at it that it is a wonder I don't break out in a sweat. I'm not creating music, I'm manipulating a fancy looking piece of wood. Great players don't have to work that hard to create beautiful music. They have over-mastered their instruments.
Thanks for sharing the article.
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I feel his point of "over mastery" is spot on. Great guitarists don't "play" their instruments so much as they feel them. Their mastery becomes automatic and complete and their expression is the beauty of the song and not so much the physical act of plucking and fretting strings in the correct order.
When I watch videos of myself playing I work so hard at it that it is a wonder I don't break out in a sweat. I'm not creating music, I'm manipulating a fancy looking piece of wood. Great players don't have to work that hard to create beautiful music. They have over-mastered their instruments.
Thanks for sharing the article.
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