Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2016-06-02 02:46
Well, "when those who can won't, those who will must". (Kudos to anyone who can attribute that.) Clean and accurately rhythmic playing will often strike the ear as faster, though actually it's just righter. The muscular motions needed to operate the keys must be sequenced within the rhythm of the notes to be played. That means fingers up, or down, or sideways, or mixes of those. Easy or hard, those transitions must fit the rhythm. That likely defines the timing aspect here.
I think this pertains to the citation of Mr. Drucker above, in that the sequence muscle movements necessary to play a sequence of notes in rhythm is felt, or known, or visualized - without gaps - just ahead of the actual execution of the motions of playing. This precognition may be quite unconscious, but I'm pretty sure it's there, and can be sensed while playing familiar music. It's like listening to your fingers.
Sometimes it seems to me that learning a difficult passage, where difficult is always in the context of some speed, involves practicing it at a speed that is not difficult, and then "listening to your fingers" to imprint that into one's memory.
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