mark indigo -> RE: Tips to speed up my three-finger arpeggios? (May 13 2014 14:31:58)
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Then how would your describe a situation were you actually feel something entering your body/system (without any warning in front) AFTER WHICH from 1 second to the other your hands start to live a life of their own, obeying that force rather then your brain, often going in the opposite direction your brain tell/expect them to go (grabbing alternative chords i never new existed but turn out to be way better then the ones i had in mind), quite often integrating techniques i never saw before wile playing music i never heart before, using an efficiency i can only dream of...in short hands not communicating with the brain anymore but playing the guitar at levels way way way above my own capacities? All those effects are gone the moment i feel that force leaves my body. It took me years to find 1 person who enjoyed those moments as well (1 of the best stage performers i ever met) and he told me on those moments the subconsciousness takes over control of your body. When i studied the subject it turned out there is a world of wonders we brainy people have no clue of because we lost contact with that part of our abilities. If we can restore our excess to that mega force then our performance would really improve, surpassing your wildest dreams. Last time it happened to me (20 years ago) was during a public performance and wile my hand performed their miracles my brain enjoyed the spectacle as an outsider wile having in between conversations with people standing around me. Not 1 braincell was involved in the actual performance, unless it is a part of the brain my consciousness and hands have no access to under normal conditions. So the question remains if the subconsciousness is directed by another part of the brain (not using the part of the brain we normally use so it remains free to do other things) or found ways around the brain. I tend to believe it found ways around the brain. With the exception of the last one it always happened in periods i was studying the guitar extremely intense and at the highest level possible, which is a very delicate balance between demanding 100% awareness/control of the brain and an intuitive cense when to trust your fingers to find better ways, ways not understand by the brain. Still there is a huge gap between that level of control (were it still felt like me playing the guitar) and the rare situations i really felt another force was taking over control of the playing and it was not longer me playing the guitar. It totally match the travel and final arrival described in "zen and the art of archery". I don't have a definitive explanation for what happened to you. But I do know that despite the cutting edge discoveries of neuroscience the brain is still a mysterious organ that we will probably never fully understand. So I am fully prepared to believe that you can have an experience such as you describe, but I don't need to explain it by any outside agency, as our brains are already strange, powerful, and seemingly magical enough already to make that happen. When I use the word "brain" I think that is much more than the mental chatterbox, or the analytical and critical parts of our consciousness. I think our consciousness is much bigger than that. I have no problem believing that the rational and logical parts of your brain that usually judge what is happening weren't involved in playing that music, while the motor cortex still sent out the commands to the fingers. I also know that our sensation of what is happening to us is not reliable. We surely all know the old cliché of the performer who feels inspired, they feel they have given their best performance, and the audience thinks it was average, just going through the motions. Another time the artist doesn't feel like playing, but they are obliged, so they go through the motions and the audience is ecstatic, thinks it is the best performance. Why? because our [physical] feelings are not reliable. To illustrate what I am getting at, try this experiment. Prepare 3 bowls of water. In the first put hot water, in the second room temperature water, and in the third really cold water. Now put one hand in the hot water and one in the cold water. Leave them there for a few minutes and then put both hands into the second bowl, the room temperature water. One hand is gonna tell you the water is hot, but the other hand will tell you the water is cold. They are both wrong, because the water is neither hot nor cold. But they are also both right, because (physical) feelings are not absolute, they are relative. So relative to the previous hot water the water is cold, relative to the previous cold water the water is hot. In the same way if someone plays with a level of residual muscular tension all the time and suddenly (for whatever reason) plays without that "normal" level of tension they will get all kinds of weird sensation, could be something like a "kinaesthetic feeling of lightness", or could feel like they have been taken over by a spiritual presence, or could be that they feel afraid, or in pain, could be anything, it is not predictable. If that person is able to repeatedly recreate those conditions eventually they won't get these weird feelings, it will just feel "normal" to play like that. When I talked about improving the process of commands from the brain to the muscles via the nervous system, what I am mostly hinting at is getting our interfering, worrying, analytical, critical, judging mental chatterbox [is that what you mean by "we brainy people"?] out of the way.
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