The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32435   Message #426259
Posted By: Jon Freeman
26-Mar-01 - 10:42 PM
Thread Name: Disobedient Fingers
Subject: RE: Disobedient Fingers
OK Jeri, I can see some of that but I didn't learn that tune the wrong way - whatever is stuck there comes from another tune(s) I know and I seem to want to use what is familiar and similar rather than do what this melody does.

So then what is the process? Does my mind sort of go into autopilot and send the signals to my fingures to go where I don't want them to go a fraction of a second before my conscious brain says "no go this way" and over rules the instruction and does that cause the fingers to suddenly withdraw from where they were looking to go to and reposition or what?

Another one, thinking of autopilot, I am out of practice now but there were some tunes like Harvest Home that I played so often that I could happily hold a conversation with someone while playing - do the fingers have minds of thier own?

Jon