Originally Posted By: Notes Norton


That is what practice is for.

When learning a new, challenging song, I analyze it first. Then I try a few things out because I can often analyze it more than one way, or analyze it erroneously. Depends on the song.

I have practiced scales, arpeggios, and other basics until they are under my fingers. If I know the key center of the part of the song I'm in, what I hear in my mind is immediately transferred into my fingers. I don't know how that is done.

Notes, as a gigging professional musician and per my awareness, you are in a sparsely populated clan in this forum.
Keep your locomotive running man and thanks for your incites smile

Sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words.
I can relate to this guy's sense of being overwhelmed.
Nonetheless, this is a fun journey I'm on!

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