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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    A couple of thoughts:

    1. When I started performing my playing fell apart, of course, but soon recovered and improved vastly. Learning to do an extra thing (performing, which is a whole new skill)...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    Hum or sing the notes as you play them. This will build neural connections between what you hear and what your fingers are playing.

    The rhythm is in your picking hand. Stay relaxed without...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    All excellent comments above. :mandosmiley: Especially about the different kinds of memory and thinking.

    For me anyway, I see parallels between playing music and touch typing. (Beyond just the...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    dont't practise scales, practise pieces, chopped into measures
    Sing the melody with your voice, then sing it with your mandolin.
    Avoid thinking - thinking comes from the wrong type of memory, the...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    I've been working with the Strum Machine backing track tool (www.strummachine.com).

    I put on a simple song that I know well (Angeline the Baker, or Bury Me Beneath the Willow) at a slow tempo.
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    Take one or more of the pieces that you have been playing for some time. Memorize it and put the paper away. Think of the mandolin as your voice. You know what these pieces should sound like but use...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    I like JonZ’s response. Compose some licks.

    I’m pretty sure that the “machine gun” players you refer to have built up huge vocabularies of “licks” or phrases they’ve heard, copied, altered or...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    Rather than practicing scales, practice using scales to make musical lines.

    In other words, practice what you want to do.

    At first you might just use one scale over a whole tune, but you will...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    I have nothing to add to all the wisdom in the preceding responses except "Welcome to the forum".

    I have hope that all my practice time will one day accumulate to a level where music comes easily...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    yikes I just wrote a bunch of stuff that probably doesn't apply now that I think about what you asked. All I can say really, is that sometimes it takes a decade to sound like you have been playing...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    Play daily … Practice scales arpeggios double stops within a group of chords working a given key example G Em C D … two chord three chords whatever suits your ear … make something melodically...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    I don’t know if your problem is the same as mine, but my problem is that I am comparing myself to players with years or decades more experience than me. I still stumble playing scales and have...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    Time. sorry about that. The longer you play, the easier it gets to move past the "thinking" and into making music. There really aren't any shortcuts. On the other hand, you can experiment with...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    I assume you are asking about how to get past producing music that has been "composed" for you. If so (and it isnt just a question of playing faster like Josh Levine implies above), then my take is...
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    Re: See think play to auto feel play

    Are you faster than when you started out? If so, keep doing what you are doing and you will continue to get faster. There is no magic pill to getting better other than playing + time.
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