Re: Musings on learning a totally new instrument
adouglas wrote:
I'm a longtime bass player and that's been my only instrument since day one, so I have no real background in true hand independence or thinking in terms of chords and such. My brain is wired to think about my hands working together to create melody and dynamics. I think about intervals and single notes, not chords.
intuition aren't there yet.
All that groundwork unlocks the actual making of music... the organic, instinctive flow that we aim for.
I can dig it - it's why I picked out a stupid (user)name..though I didn't have some cards printed up for a couple of bucks
I play (or play at it) for personal enrichment and to keep my neuroplasticity...plastic
I think many of us go through (and still do, I'm a posterchild for that) "Chapman stick isn't a [insert instrument...guitar, bass, etc]" unlearning struggle...well maybe misaplication is a better word
and learning to approach it on its own terms is, at least for me, a deal - a constant deal.
I remember with classic[al] guitar I had an instructor in a teaching ladder that would make us do stuff like flip the instrument to play off-handd (left handed usually) just to remind us how weird and difficult it feels.
I've heard of maths teachers doing the same by working in a weird base like base 7 just to feel that lack of facility again
(of course if you practice too much you get used to that too)
did you watch the hands across the board video from back in the day? there are some interest insights about approach and state of mind
https://youtu.be/XdCn3z3Ol9c?