Finger Robotics

Practice slow

The clumsy, conscious part of the mind we use during the day is good at giving the faster, but brainless subconscious supercomputer instructions and the obliging genie says, "your wish is my command". The subconscious doesn't have the ability to disobey direct orders from the conscious mind. But it has to be shown what to do first in little baby steps. A quick read of a book won't do it. I cringe when I hear people say, "I can't do this" or "I find this difficult". They don't realize their silent servant is listening to every word and will do all in it's power (according to the master's express wishes) to prevent that person from ever doing the thing they really want to do, but keep telling themselves that they can't. So there is a lot to be said for this mental programming of the muscles.

That's what I mean by slow when I talk about this on the picado page. If you get this initial finger programming right and spend a few minutes on it every day, it gets transferred to your playing when you play at faster speeds. The servant will just repeat a previously learned action, the same way every time, exactly the way the master trained it. If the master took time to train this little robot well and spent time on the details during the training phase, the servant has no choice but to comply, regardless of physical speed.

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