If you keep making mistakes on a song you already know try this trick.

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The weird thing

 Have you ever noticed how sometimes it’s harder to play when you look at your hands, especially with a song you already know?

If it’s a tune you already know, you’ve already memorized it. A lot of times if we sitting here, we’ll be playing something and just making tons of mistakes and we’re like, what’s going on? I already know this song.

And then we look away, or we close our eyes, and there it is. It comes right out. It’s this sort of magic thing, right?

It’s pretty weird the way this works and the way this happens. But it does, and you know it does. You’ve probably had this experience. If you haven’t You will, because that does happen.

How The Magic Happens

We see our heroes do this thing. We see them playing well and then they close their eyes or they look off. And then all this music comes out and it sounds so good.

Now, I can’t really get a caliper out or a slide rule and, scientifically prove what I’m about to say, but after 30 years of practicing and teaching guitar, and practicing meditation and watching what happens in the mind whenever we’re doing things, I firmly believe that what’s going on is that we are reducing distraction when we do that.

Obviously. Right? You probably figured that out. But the thing is, it’s not that we reduce our distractions so that we can concentrate and think about the notes and where our fingers go. No. What happens when we close our eyes or look off is it connects us more with two sense perceptions. What we hear, And what we feel.

And these two things together makes the whole thing simpler. Much simpler.

Let Yourself Play

Whenever you’re connecting to your sense perceptions, to what you hear and what you feel, that allows you to still be present, still play, but not get in your way. Because you’re not analyzing what you’re doing so much.

You’re being there, with it, and letting the training come through. That way you can actually play better. That’s why it works. And it’s just fascinating. It’s like a magic trick. It’s scary, a lot of times. But you can practice it on your own at home. You can even take a short little piece like what I just did with the opening of Michelle here by The Beatles.

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It’s all about playing by feel.

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