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I feel this article uses a lot of words to say something very simple. I've always found motor skills very interesting. I'm naturally good at symbolic reasoning
by noelwelsh 3y ago
I feel this article uses a lot of words to say something very simple.
I've always found motor skills very interesting. I'm naturally good at symbolic reasoning but pretty poor at motor learning. For symbolic reasoning tasks, like maths or programming, I just roll stuff around in my head and get better at it. But motor skills I have to physically practice and there is an inaccessible (at least to me) level of unconscious processing where improvement takes place. E.g. performing a handstand is conceptually trivial (stack your weight over your hands) but actually doing it is another matter. In learning to handstand I found I have gradually become more aware of my body's position when upside down but the process of doing so just happens without any conscious oversight. I do handstands and the next day I'm magically better at them.
Anyway, for learning about learning motor skills I've been enjoying the Perception & Action podcast: https://perceptionaction.com/ https://perceptionaction.com/ One key take away is importance of exploring the movement space. In a musical context this would be, I think, jamming. Take a theme and explore. In the context of handstands this would be different entries, movement within the handstand, other related balancing (e.g. headstand).
- polotics 3y agoYeah. I feel this article has been assisted by AI. TLDR: Apart from the focus aspect, it mentions deliberate practice, but doesn't go into identifying what practice that is, expect sayingfocus on your weaknesses.
- dasKrokodil 3y agoYeah, I also thought the article had been AI-generated. Super shallow and low-effort, and it seems like the other articles on that site aren't any better. Avoid.
- tetha 3y agoYeah, I kinda plateaued like that for a few months and got frustrated to the point of giving up. Always the same-ish songs, same-ish patterns, same-ish things to train on and progress was somewhat limited or stagnant even. Then I started to take part in a weekly creative challenge to pick up some given drum patterns and create some weird riff around it and it's a great mind changer. It's a great and fun mind changer and confidence builder. You learn: You can kinda do something cool. And suddenly technical training isn't something to do for a vague goal of being "a better guitarist" or "a better bassist". Suddenly, I have ideas in my head I cannot express because I'm not good, fast or precise enough. So I need to improve my rhythm counting and improve my precision with 16th notes. Or music theory isn't something to learn "because you're a better musician then", but because that knowledge results in finding more interesting melodies easier and quicker.
- dieselgate 3y agoI’m kind of a jack of all trades and consider my motor learning skills to be equivalent to my symbolic reasoning skills - not that I’m excellent at either. The thing about motor learning I like the best is just “getting better with time” despite not practicing. This would be kind of a muscle memory concept over long periods of time. Whereas I don’t feel that really happens for symbolic reasoning