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Erik van Goch -> RE: buleria speed (Mar. 9 2013 7:32:58)
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ORIGINAL: Flamencito
my idea (or more the idea of my teacher) is that it is neccesary to practise new things really slow first. In this way your brain can remember the proper movements, since you have time to concentrate on doing it with the right technique.
Although it's tempting to play on regular speed for me as well, i don't know if it's a good idea for the process.. any Idea on this from the ones who teach?
You're teacher is 100% right. In fact it is a 2 directional way. When you learn new things it is the brain that has all the info, or at least has a clear (or lesser clear) concept of what is going on and were to strive at. So constant awareness of the brain is needed to guide, monitor and evaluate your (intended) new actions. At any given moment your brain has to handle many different impulses (in both in-and out coming direction) and in that wire of information it has to encourage/preserve what is good and prevent/reject what is bad.
On top your fingers need a little time to develop muscle memory. If you let them just foul around they develop a muscle memory for just fooling around. So BEFORE it comes to muscle memory you must make sure they imprint the right memory by mentally demanding 100% correct behavior. But when your fingers do something that outclasses your brain, the brain has to be alert as well to detect and exploit it, demanding at least equal results on the next try (based on that new and improved view of were to strive at). Only when brain and fingers come to a mutual agreement about the best approach you can start drilling, repeating the correct moves over and over again to get it in your system (both brain and muscle memory)....still slowly slowly slowly.
My golden rules:
* Slowly slowly slowly (gives you more time to generate/monitor/correct/evaluate both in and output).
* The smaller the object of your focus the bigger the results (with numerous applications mentioned in older and future posts).
* Only repeat what is worth repeating (and don't repeat what is not worth repeating)...this means 2 things:
......1: don't waste time on parts of the falseta/compas-variation you can play already to your likings
......2: focus on the parts that don't go to your likings.....this means 2 things:
..........1: don't allow mindless repeating hoping the problem solves itself....all you do is repeating the same mistake over and over again PERFECTLY practicing/imprinting making that mistake.
..........2: give it some thought first.... what goes wrong and why. Then find the solution and only then study/drill that solution in full focus.
and for the more/extremely advanced:
* as soon as you manage to produce the perfect hit "a couple of times on a row" in full awareness and know how it feels (your brain and all other senses were there weren't they, studying slowly so you had all the time to absorb what was going on?)....so once you know how it feels putt down your guitar and do it in your mind only, visualizing all the ingredients (finger movement, moment of making contact, energy exchange, string-vibration, finger relaxation, sound....i told you you need time to evaluate did i?)..... Going up and down between actual playing (checking/rechecking) and playing by mental visualization(training the underlaying and leading hand-nerve map in your brain) helps you to control your system more quickly and at the end allows you to play complete pieces "in your head only" as real as real can get (up to a point were it might be even better to practice without a guitar).
Any interruption like trying to play to fast to soon disturbs the process....you need focus and absolute control..... as you see slowly slowly slowly is only a "mild demand" :-)
i only mentioned the more experienced/extremely advanced part because you asked tricks to study/develop without holding a guitar in another post. I mentally played the guitar as real as real can get in busses, trains, my bed.... you name it.
I run into this old post. My second respond give more details of how i study. In fact until my thoughts and moves are 100% ok i don't bother about playing in rhythm at all (remember * 2 above!!!!!!). By eliminating the necessity to be/leave somewhere "in time" i can fully concentrate on the correct movement and the equally or even more important muscle relaxation. As soon as that is covered i make sure i do it at the right moment as well but it's more easy to shorten a gab then to alter a misprinted move.
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