>From: "michael.chesebro" <michael.chesebro@w...> >The phenomenon you describe is real and is also often called kinesthetic >memory. >As long as a singer knows where the memory is actually encoded, s/he is on >the right track. >
This is a bit off topic, but may help in understanding "muscle memory":
I started knitting again a few days ago, after buying an afghan kit at a yard sale. (I was probably thinking along the lines of the character in "You Can't Take It With You" who started writing plays after a typewriter was delivered to her house by mistake.)
NOTE FOR NON-USA LISTERS: The "afghan" referred to above is a knitted or crocheted blanket draped on the sofa (usually) for use on chilly nights.
I didn't want to trust my *conscious* memory to remember how to make some of the stitches, so I bought a beginner's book on knitting along with the needles. I opened the book to the instructions on how to cast on the first row of stitches. All I had to do was make the first stitch..... and I was off and running! My hands took over, and I didn't even have to think about the four carefully illustrated steps in the knitting book.
THAT's "muscle memory." Hope this helps.
Elizabeth Finkler San Jose, California mightymezzo@h... http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
We all live in a place called "23 skiddoo." --John Prine
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