Yes, this is about wiring them together. What you're talking about, Niles, is acquiring a pretty significant skill as a prerequisite to making this work properly.Originally Posted by (mandocrucian @ Aug. 09 2008, 14:57)
If the singing-mind-muscle connection is not already established (for whatever reason), then results can be long and slow in kicking in.
The singing/playing concurrently part can be difficult.
The solfege part can be even harder. This skill is extremely useful once attained, but it's no piece of cake to master. College music majors spend their first two years working on this, and the bulk of them give it up as soon as they can. Not that it's smart for them to give it up, just a measure of how difficult it is to make this skill a real working tool.
In the meantime, in my case, the disconnect between my voice and my playing is startling. I still think this has a lot to do with establishing deep and complete neural pathways for music long before starting instrumental studies. The mechanics of tying them together have proven fairly elusive.
I'll give it another crack.
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