Practicing And Resting |
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Practicing And Resting |
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Nov 29 2007, 12:12 AM |
After trying some difficult riffs, solos or whatever for several days in a row and then putting the guitar away for a couple of days (in anger or just plain disappointment) I've noticed sometimes, not always of course, but sometimes when you grab it again and give it a go the riff is there. It plays as if you got faster!
I don't know if it's muscles that get their well deserved rest or if it's the brain that gets a chance to coordinate things with the muscle memory. So I belive rest works. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Nov 30 2007, 12:18 AM |
When you play the guitar, your mind actually must remember every micromove that you do with your fingers. This my friends is a slow process, but if you do one thing (like an exercise) 100 times, be sure that 101st time it will sound EXACTLY like it did for the last 100 times. Why? Because the way our brain works, it makes a "patch" from neurons in your mind, called a routine and that routine is then executed at will.
Now why i wrote all of this? Because this "patches" function in different areas of the brain in different occasions. For example, if we play something one day over and over, eventually we will (besides the muscle fatigue as a reason off cource) start to play even worse that when we started. This is because our brain cannot withstand that much of information and work. We get brain fatigued in one word. It is best then to stop and move on tomorrow, not sooner. And why not sooner? Because our brain gets its rest during the night. It stores the parts of information he had gotten that day from a short term memory to a long term memory, and this memory can now be controled by our subconscious. When you get up tomorrow, or maybe pick up the guitar few days later, your brain has stored effectively what you have practised in the past few days in a longer term memory, and you can execute that easely. That is - you don`t have to THINK how to execute it, you just have innitial thought and - there it is. The innitial thinking that is required to execute the lick\solo\exercise is now embedded in our mind as a ROUTINE. We only then have to send the info to the other area of the brain to execute that routine at given tempo, tonality etc. Pretty amazing when you think about it. This post has been edited by Milenkovic Ivan: Nov 30 2007, 12:22 AM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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