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Topic: Playing out of subconscious (Read 1663 times)

ClassicalMan

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Do you notice that after playing a peice several times during the learning process it becomes so automatic that you don't even make an effort to cipher the printed notes? It is almost entirely mechanical. Fingers go where you want them to without you "telling them". Has this been your experience?

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quasimodo

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Re: Playing out of subconscious

Reply #1 on: April 12, 2005, 03:18:45 PM

Actually, that's the situation one should aim at attaining, but only to some extent. It's very important to hold a certain degree of consciousness in our playing, as far as musicality of what we do is concerned.

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howiehc

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Re: Playing out of subconscious

Reply #2 on: April 12, 2005, 06:06:08 PM

YES!!! it happens to me a lot. However sometimes I find it to be very scary especially if you are playing it for performance. I tend to feel very insecured when my fingers just play and I don't have a clear idea of what notes i'm exactly playing. Now I try to memorize or at least understand my piece before I play it too often that it becomes mechanical.

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