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Jacqueline W's avatar

Lovely piece. I have the opposite experience. When I learnt music as a child (Saturday music school violin and later piano) I always got top marks for sight reading (in the strict sense) but usually failed the aural/oral and then there were the "tuning flat!!" comments on my violin playing!! And I don't think there's any chance I'll ever come up with any tunes of my own.

I still play piano though and enjoy it and I notice that flow state - you play best when you are not thinking about it - in fact sometimes my best version is first time through before I've had time to think! In my case anyway my eyes still need to follow the music, it's like a kind of prompt that I need, again best not to think about what you're doing, get distracted and you fumble the notes if you lose your visual place.

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Jamie Bristoll's avatar

I feel the bloke who introduced you to Rocksmith may also have pointed you at Yousician. I could be wrong? Bostin article, as usual. Makes me wanna pick up the guitar more often, too.

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