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| Re: Re: Recovery/retraining exercise for guitarists -- JonnyB | Post Reply | Top of thread | Forum |
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Posted by: guitarist ® 04/08/2010, 04:36:18 Edit |
"That's interesting but I played extremely fast legato for many years and didn't get any symptoms. It was when I tried to increase my accuracy and eliminate mistakes that the problems arose (I noticed a small defect in the timing of my little finger).In fact the nail in the coffin seemed to be when I slowed everything down and tried to use a more classic hand position" Yep, that's pretty classic too! Trying to improve a throughly ingrained motor sequence of fine movements and impose a new level of control is asking for trouble. That's basically what happened to me. Your analogy of trying to impose another 'map' is I think a useful one. The question is, how to untangle this - by trying to impose yet more conscious control on an already confused system? The secret is to 'allow' the fingers to move freely. This is how people like Farias get seemingly astounding results in a single session, by guiding the client to aproach it the right way. A concept that is so simple once you get it, but is very hard to adequately describe. It means backing right off and allowing the fingers to touch and move through the strings as if they were new to the guitar, not trying to move them you way you think they should move. Modified by guitarist at Thu, Apr 08, 2010, 05:05:58 |
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