https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:14:21 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151377 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:38:54 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151377 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151068 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:48:06 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion thectrain https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151068 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151037 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:31:47 +0000
All the time , music revolved in his head.It was like ..suddenly he won't be around in the real world and lost somewhere.You would think he's gone mad or have a lunatic attack but that was him.The riffs just went on in the cerebrum ...blues were so much embedded that he was lost in the other world many times in a day.

That does not mean you will be jimi if you don't pay attention , but music is something that can take you to another world...literally :wink:

Rahul]]> Guitar Players Discussion Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151037 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151027 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:32:50 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-151027 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150943 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:40:34 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion pearlthekat https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150943 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150929 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:54:45 +0000
The "Unconcious" in this instance doesn't mean I can play the intro to Black Dog in my Sleep. Instead your thinking of the next phrase or the next Sounds you want to make and just do it without having to stop and go.. ok "How" do I make that so? Uh ok, index finger 5th fret on the G string then the middle on the 8th fret B string back to the Index on the fifth frest .. You just instinctively do it.

As in typing you know what the next word(s) your going to type, but you don't have to stop and look for each letter in the word, you don't have to stop and think.... you just keep typing along.

What I was describing is a known Learning Theory Model and a measurement of competency.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Dagwood https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150929 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150919 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:10:51 +0000
I'm not into Zen, and I've never really forgotten where I was when playing guitar.

Playing guitar is somewhat like typing. I took typing in High School and was taught not to look at the keyboard. I am not looking at the keyboard whatsoever as I type this. I am certainly not a master at typing, I think I got up around 50 WPM. I DO have to look when typing numbers, should have taken another year of classes. :D

But this is not unconscious whatsoever. I am thinking the words I want to type, and typing them. But you have to know the words and how to spell them. So, it is not unconscious at all.

And the same with guitar. I do not have to look, although I often do. For me, it is playing the sounds I have heard from many years of practice. I am pretty good at making whatever sound I hear in my head. When I play, I go from one idea to another. When improvising, I do not plan it out. I let one musical phrase give me an idea for another.

I can relate guitar more to skateboarding or surfing. I did a lot of that as a kid. When you surf, you never know what you are going to do on a wave, because each wave is different. You just flow from one idea to the next. But you have to have a knowledge of what you can do, and you have to have a knowledge of waves and how they work. When you see a wave closing out on you, you know from experience that you can turn sharply into it and bank off the lip. This is called a roller coaster. But you don't think about your feet or shifting your weight or things like that. But it is not unconscious at all, although you are open to do any manuver that might present itself.

For music, you have to have lots of experience. You must know the notes of your scale. Not by letter name, but how they sound. And so when you want to hear a certain sound or melody, you must be very familiar with how to do it. You must have been there before many times. This allows you to improvise freely. And you have to have a good judgement of how certain intervals sound. This allows you to create melodies or musical ideas on the spot.

I am certainly no master, but I can come pretty close to playing what I hear in my head most of the time. But I am not unconscious at all, I am listening and thinking about the next idea or phrase I want to hear.

Sorry for the long ramble. Still not looking at the keyboard though. :D]]> Guitar Players Discussion Wes Inman https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150919 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150863 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:27:04 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Guitargeek 9 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150863 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150816 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:48:28 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion teleplayer324 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150816 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150807 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:30:35 +0000
Alice I said Shut up!!
Tom Sit down and be quiet.
Jimmy, you had way too much coffee this morning

hehehehehehehehehe :wink: :wink: :wink: :lol:]]> Guitar Players Discussion Dagwood https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/conscious-vs-unconsious-guitar-playing/#post-150807