Saturday, June 15, 2013

New & Giant, Important Tip To Be Treasured!



Giant, Important Tip To Be Treasured!

Here’s the scenario: there’s this little phrase that you get hung up on; every time you attempt to play this ‘lick’ you tense up and fail to play it correctly.
Do you know what’s wrong?  Your brain signal’s not strong enough, so when you go to play the phrase, your motor neuron system that controls your muscles, does not know what to do; the function for that particular movement has not been properly and correctly learned!

The Solution:
Look at or think of the passage and concentrate on using only the small muscles of your hands, with no help or thought from the muscles of your forearm, upper arm, or shoulders.  Now, very slowly, strongly press the fingering for each note of the passage, the pressure being only from the small finger muscle.  Do this 3 consecutive times.  Then mentally play the passage.

Now play the passage without prior thought; only imagine playing it correctly as you would like as you actually perform it.

You'll be amazed at the difference, effortlessly playing it with control, the way you like.  And that word ‘effortlessly’ is not a ‘throw away term’!  You must not ‘try’ to play it; you just do it, relaxed and without anxious fore-thought.
Your motor skills have now ‘learned’ the movelent.

Sincerely,
Errol Weiss Schlabach