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Springs of Action

"Some movements are so rapid that there is no time to get feedback information from the muscles while they are being executed. A rapid musical arpeggio has to be planned in advance and the whole sequence is launched like a ballistic rocket."

During the second World War experimental psychologists distinguished between movements which were being continously controlled throughout their action and ones which had a ballistic character and could not be modified once they had started."

Jonathan Miller from "The Body in Question"

Note the CURVES.... for the human body a curve is often quicker than a straight line.

Note the CURVES.... for the human body a curve is often quicker than a straight line.



The implication for practice is that you have to program your nervous system in a building block approach, so the sequences of movements which make up scales and arpeggios can be "set off" by a single musical thought.

You don't have time to play "note by note"



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