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No. You overpractice.

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But how would he over-practice on air guitar?

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Rule 1. If you stop playing and the pain goes away it is ok. If you stop playing and still feel pain or a strainge sensation, you over practice.

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My 1977 cedar top Ramirez negra

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Rule 1. If you stop playing and the pain goes away it is ok. If you stop playing and still feel pain or a strainge sensation, you over practice.

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It feels normal during practice and starts to hurt next day or week out of nothing.

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Learning is with your mind not with your hands.

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My ring finger plucks the string [..] almost independently from the pinky

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Muscle memory is a fairly large component to playing

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If there is a time gap between stopping practising and the pain starting it is likely that your sensitivity and self-awareness during practise is so low that you can't feel the damage from bad and/or over-practise until some time after you stop.

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Been doing independent finger movements for more than a month now. Now it's over.

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Muscle memory is a fairly large component to playing.

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Yes but it is not referring to muscles having memories; it means the brain having a memory of set sequences of coordination and firing of muscles. In other words, it is about 'chunking' finger movements

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it means the brain having a memory of set sequences of coordination and firing of muscles. In other words, it is about 'chunking' finger movements and pushing that into subconscious control rather than executing it with conscious control.

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ORIGINAL: Auda

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it means the brain having a memory of set sequences of coordination and firing of muscles. In other words, it is about 'chunking' finger movements and pushing that into subconscious control rather than executing it with conscious control.

This is the general meaning of the phrase muscle memory when used. Don't know of anyone believing muscles had brains.

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ORIGINAL: Auda

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ORIGINAL: gerundino63

Learning is with your mind not with your hands.

Tell that to my stupid fingers. Muscle memory is a fairly large component to playing.

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I am usually conscious when playing the guitar [:D]

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but not so sure about the conscious/subconscious control part.... I am usually conscious when playing the guitar

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Don't know of anyone believing muscles had brains.

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Wikipedia says "with little to no conscious effort"
"When a movement is repeated over time, a long-term muscle memory is created for that task, eventually allowing it to be performed with little to no conscious effort"

I think subconscious means here without paying attention to what you're playing. That means mechanical movements your fingers do while you're doing something different for example watching TV.

At this stage I want to add an interesting fact. In connection with muscle memory your brain takes time to process - at least 2 days. Assume you learnt a new passage on Sunday. Muscle memory won't kick in on Monday. You'll surprise when you can execute that new passage way better on Tuesday.

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I am usually conscious when playing the guitar


Pffft... Amateur..

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i tried playing guitar unconscious, but i can't remember what it was like...

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Thinking of it, is muscle memory not a kind of reflex? And, is it not situated in the spine?

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For example, when I used to read stuff and play classical in college, I noticed a funny thing that when I saw a different layout of the score, I couldn’t play it as well. My eyes needed to see that other score so my fingers would remember how to play. Later it was items on my wall in the room I practiced or learned a piece while sitting in. I needed to visualize that “thing” and the music would appear. I slowly realized how dangerous and impractical this “muscle memory” thing was and started to re-learn pieces based entirely on rhythmic understanding.

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Muscle memory and memorizing music are 2 different things.