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This is hugely noticeable playing/practicing/learning music. Just yesterday playing guitar.. I was fighting playing the wrong note cause my brain was guessing
by ben7799 7y ago
This is hugely noticeable playing/practicing/learning music.
Just yesterday playing guitar.. I was fighting playing the wrong note cause my brain was guessing that was the next note because so often in so much music it would be. It was something like 3 notes that are in a particular scale and my brain really wanted to play the next note in the scale instead of the correct next note.
In all activities our brain internalizes how to do things and we can suddenly do them without having to think consciously about how it's happening.. huge in sports and anything with motor skills... music, video games, etc, etc..
- objektif 7y agoIsnt this an example of reflex though, as opposed to prediction?
- sk0g 7y agoI would say muscle memory more so, considering how much practice guitar takes.
- ben7799 7y agoIs muscle memory even a thing though? Whatever "muscle memory" is, it's in your brain. It's when you've done something so many times your brain has pathways for it so you can do it unconsciously. It's like riding a bike. There are like 10 things going on at the same time and you don't even think about them once you know how to ride a bike.. your brain is doing a lot of the work in the background. Heck even using your balance to walk around is the same thing.
- ThrustVectoring 7y agoNo, it's pretty clearly prediction. People play music by hearing what they're about to play, and then their body does whatever it needs to in order to make that sound happen.
- ThrustVectoring 7y agoGuessing what's next is the only way the brain knows how to play music. If you aren't hearing the music you want to play correctly, you cannot play it. A lot of music education gets things pretty messed up by ignoring this factor. Highly relevant to all this is Hal Galper's approach to jazz education. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7DgCrziI8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7DgCrziI8
- mamon 7y agoIn similar fashion people that are deaf and cannot hear their own voice eventually start speaking with strange manerisms, too loud, to quiet, weird intonation, etc. But I don't think that's about predicting what comes next, it's more about feedback loop allowing you to control your movement better.
- IAmGraydon 7y agoI don’t think this is the same thing as guessing what’s next. He’s just talking about developing a powerful aural imagination, just as excellent painters have to envision the scene they’re painting. That said, prediction certainly comes into play when you’re listening to someone else’s creation.
- buzzert 7y agoI play Dance Dance Revolution competitively and it’s extremely important there as well. A lot of people ask me how I’m able to “read the notes that fast”. The answer is always that you build an intuition about what patterns follow certain patterns, and that you never read each note individually. It’s a great combination of some of the sensations you get from playing music, and executing things well in a video game.
- notamy 7y ago> A lot of people ask me how I’m able to “read the notes that fast”. The answer is always that you build an intuition about what patterns follow certain patterns, and that you never read each note individually. osu! - and most rhythm games, I would think - is the exact same way.