When I was starting out as a musician, I would watch professionals perform beautifully an I always wondered: how do those people not make mistakes?
I’ve recently crossed some thresholds in my playing, such that my younger self would ask me the same if he could see me. And... idk
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I’d use a physical movement analogy to try and “explain” it. Like, how do you know how to walk and not fall down? How do kids hop and skip and run around and fall down so rarely? How do gymnasts do flips, how do athletes know where the ball is, or how hard to kick/throw? Practice
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This might sound wooey but I don’t think the understanding is “in the head”. It’s in the fingers. I mean, I’m typing this without thinking about the letters or looking at the keyboard. My thumbs are writing the tweet while I’m thinking what word comes next
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I think for many years I was subconsciously discouraged as a musician because it just seemed like too much information to manage. All those scales and modes and keys and whatnot. But... I now manage a lot of that information! but I don’t *think* about it
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there’s an entire book about this! it’s a nice source to be able to give people, probably won’t tell you in particular anything you didn’t know but might help consolidate stuff
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rationalists will be frustrated that it uses “self 1” and “self 2” to refer to “system 2” (~explicit) and “system 1” (~implicit) respectively 😅