How Muscle Memory Affects Your Music Practice

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There is one part that is very related to muscles though - practicing enough to build strength and stamina in you fretting hand and strumming arm will definitely make playing easier when it comes to performance - which can only positively affect your mental state.

Learnt this in bus driving at work! don't let cognitive distraction miss you up 💯

I so wish I would have heard this useful perspective when I was in music school. I spent years agonizing over the disparity between practicing and performing, especially in relation to muscles and positioning. Thank you for your channel, and your insights! ♡

This really makes sense to me, Mark! Thanks!

Love this subject. Great content and insight!

This makes so much sense - thank you for posting - really interesting.

Excellent points, will check out your other video. Great job!

Always great advice Mark! Thank you!

That really made sense to me Mark! Thanks for this brilliant analyses!

Thanks for these videos Mark. I often feel like there’ll be no problems when I go out to perform… most of the time right now only with friends. Then when the focus is on me I have to remember all these tips… it’s really a kindness to learn to forgive ourselves when small mistakes (that seem so huge) mess up a perfect performance . Your posts really promote confidence and a gentle analysis . There are so many inroads to improving our performances… so thank you for your videos… they are thought provoking and so helpful

Thank you for this! It's so important to practice performance as well as technique. I usually use weekdays for learning and technique, and weekends to practice performing pieces I know well. Two very different mindsets, and I find that this makes performance a more familiar activity, and when I am performing in public, it feels natural and very, very enjoyable, because the nerves and jitters have been performance--practiced out every weekend.

I love the video, it's very insightful. I see it as super complementary to the video from How to practice the guitar - Most Guitarists Don’t Know THIS About Muscle Memory. Yout video is more on the explanation of Muscle Memory and psychology whereas the one from Mike is oriented from another approach around examples and very descriptive. Both are amazing !

Advice on 'muscle memory' was a particularly useful video. So much to do with music is to do with the correct mindset, establishing calm, focused mindfulness. Thank you Mark

Excellent Mark! Living with the noisy roommate is the art of life. I’ve got a ways to go. Will be checking out Unlock Your Performance soon.

Good information, thanks for sharing.

Thanx for what you sharing MMF! I´m very careful to ALLWAYS check the right finger setting on both hands and after that ALLWAYS do it like that... And I rarely failed.

mark thank you so much

Can't recommend Mark's course on "Unlocking your performance" highly enough - it's changed everything for the better.

I agree with a lot of what you say about focused practice and " muscle memory" but when learning strumming/picking patterns it helps to get a strumming/picking pattern to a point where you can play it and hold a conversation with someone without missing a beat, principally because you are not focused on it. The more I think about Travis picking, for example, the more likely I am to make a mistake. Where does this fit into the brain and muscle interaction? Roy Cuckow