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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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OfflineDerelict
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Improve Playing by 20%
    #5302673 - 02/15/06 10:52 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

No, I'm not selling anything. Just relating my own personal experience that, whenever I spend a couple of hours hiking or walking, my playing (bass, piano, guitar, kazoo) improves considerably, often more than 20%. I can cleanly pull of licks and runs I couldn't do before, and even my voice improves. So... exercise improves the muscle coordinations required for musical performance and expression.


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Re: Improve Playing by 20% [Re: Derelict]
    #5302991 - 02/15/06 12:28 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Interesting, I buy it!

If I exercised, I could account for it... anyone else find this true?


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Re: Improve Playing by 20% [Re: Blastrid]
    #5303143 - 02/15/06 01:19 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

exercise is good anyway so it wouldn't hurt to try  :wink:


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Re: Improve Playing by 20% [Re: Derelict]
    #5303407 - 02/15/06 02:44 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

no doubt some excercise can help improve a persons playing.. whether it be a short warm up just to get the blood moving or depending on your instrument a little weight lifting should help build some extra strength and endurance for playing more demanding styles of music for extended periods of time..

although after taking a hike or a walk or whatever it's possible you might get some extra creative juices flowing just from being out and about interacting with nature and such.. in some sense I guess it might be like giving your mind a little bit of a work out, elevating your mood and centering your focus as a kind of side effect from being in and around the expansive beauty that nature has to help stimulate your mind with.


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Re: Improve Playing by 20% [Re: ekomstop]
    #5303930 - 02/15/06 05:42 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Ekomstop, I think you nailed it: "centering your focus" is the best way to describe the effect.


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Re: Improve Playing by 20% [Re: Derelict]
    #5308076 - 02/16/06 06:09 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

It may not be exercise(though I'm sure being healthy helps), but instead the clearing of the mind and muscle memories attached to muscianship. I find that I get stuck in ruts and repeat things often, and that if I take a couple days break from playing I almost always take it to a new level and place.


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InvisibleShroomismM
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Re: Improve Playing by 20% [Re: blaze2]
    #5308122 - 02/16/06 06:25 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

It's my opinion that playing increases your playing by 20% or more :grin:


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