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<br><div><div>On Apr 3, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Chris Smart wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi folks.<br><br>I just read the following from a book by Mac Santiago, called Beyond the Metronome.<br><a href="http://www.inchronicity.com">www.inchronicity.com</a><br><br>"People basically execute movement in two different ways (or a combination of both). These are cognitive responses and reactive responses. The cognitive response is movement that you consciously set in motion by telling yourself to perform an act. Most of the time this happens when executing an action for the first time. With cognitive response the actual signal from brain to muscle moves at about three meters per second or from head to hand in about a third of a second (1011 km/hour). This is why practicing slowly at first helps you to learn any movement or music correctly, and eliminates poor or inaccurate motor responses.<br><br>Now as you learn the movement and your muscles begin to take over (some call this “muscle memory”), what is actually happening is that the signal from your brain to your muscle becomes quicker, or reactive. At this point the signal is moving at about 70100 meters a second, so about 1/100 of a second from head to hands (250350 km/hour). As you can see, the two responses are vastly different.<br><br>With this information I believe that timekeeping can be viewed as an indication of how much the performance has become a reactive response. This is also a measure of how familiar one is with the music. The great jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker once said, “I want to be able to play as fast as I can think.” When one listens to Parker with the above science in mind, it’s apparent that he was, in fact, extremely reactive to every musical thought that came into his mind. The speed and clarity with which he played made it seem as though his mind and body were one and the same.<br>This is the goal for all musicians—to unify thought and execution seamlessly."<br><br>I've always observed that one can play something faster once one knows it inside and out, but it was fascinating to see actual numbers given. A third of a second versus one one-hundredth of a second... That would have been good to learn years ago when I was starting out. :)<br><br>Chris<br><br>--------------------------------------------------<br>CTS MASTERING, affordable and professional mixing and mastering: http://www.ctsmastering.com<br>Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/CTSMASTERING<br>BLOG: www.ctsmastering.com/blog<br>Linked In: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/chris-smart/46/824/536<br>Dropbox, Share Files Easily: http://db.tt/bQ2GuIt<br><br><br>Thank you for subscribing to MENVI. Should you wish to unsubscribe, change your delivery, or set any other options available to you, please view the list information page below. Should you have any questions, please contact the owner of the list.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Menvi-discuss mailing list<br>Menvi-discuss@menvi.org<br>http://menvi.org/mailman/listinfo/menvi-discuss_menvi.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>