Finger Robotics

What is muscle memory?

People who say they are not very good at memorizing a piece of music just don't play it enough. The simple truth is that you no longer need to remember a piece after you have played it through a couple hundred times. Memory recall would have been automatically delegated to the muscles in the fingers long before your hundredth repetition. But the term "muscle memory" is a convenient misnomer for what really goes on behind the scenes. The so-called muscle memory is actually an automatically triggered response to the reinforced memories you have stored away in the subconscious.

The more times you play something, the more you reinforce the memory of the finger actions and the more automatic (and accurate) your muscle memory will be. It's that simple. Once you establish this "memory" through repetition, the subconscious will send the same sequence of instructions to the finger muscles and the fingers will play the music back to you the same way every time like like some sort of subliminal juke box. All you have to do is decide to play a piece and pick up the guitar. That triggers the muscle sequence you want and is like putting a coin in a jukebox. Then the tape starts rolling and playback begins.

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