Subliminal CBA....

[losthobos]

I don't want to be adding fuel to any CBA vs PA debate conflict...we choose what suits us and that's as deep as it'll ever go...
This morning I grabbed an accordion I haven't played a while as I wanted to check some tones...not notes...tonal attributes ...
I randomly played some tunes that I'd been playing for years and noticed that subliminally I'd totally changed the fingerings and button choices from how I'd originally learnt the tunes to places/shapes I'd never considered before....
And I wasn't considering today, they just happened....I didn't have sheet music or reasoning to distract me...but it happened anyway...
Soon as I noticed this phenomenon I rattled out another couple of chestnuts and again found the fingerings/shapes out of my ordinary learned method....
This for me is the beauty of having the various choices that doubled notes/rows on the CBA have over the singular choice the PA offers....
Just rambling....not suggesting one is better than the other....just astonished that the subliminal mind will choose different pathways depending on its mood....
I can see the advantage of limited options...the only option...on PA too as is far simpler if your mind doesn't have to consider choices...
But when your SOUL does...what a difference

 

[dak]

Well, I noticed that once upon a time I really had to plan my fingerings in order not to run out of fingers. Revisiting some of the old stuff nowadays, the problems I had to plan around have disappeared: it seems like fingers plan ahead and finger changes and forward-looking finger replacements just strongly move into directions where fingers remain available. It's not really a limited-options thing: I still mostly use the first 3 rows unless actively planning around a problem. It's just that I appear to have become better at not painting myself into corners.

 

[Walker]

just astonished that the subliminal mind will choose different pathways depending on its mood....

Is that you back to playing the One Note Samba again...

 

[jozz]

I should have converted 10 years ago
thanks for reminding - it's been a while

 

[Ffingers]

Strange things can happen when the conscious mind is stilled and the subliminal mind does what it does so well - re-order systems into more workable methods.

 

[debra]

There is a scientific term for this: cognitive load.
When you are learning to play 5-row CBA you (certainly initially) have a higher cognitive load caused by the choice of playing notes on row 1 or 4 and 2 or 5 in order to find a fingering scheme that works best. (The same is true on the Kravtsov keyboard and on the Reuters/uniform keyboard.) Having more choice initially doesn't make things easier (due to higher cognitive load) but it does become easier over time. (Practice makes perfect.)

 

[losthobos]

Is that you back to playing the One Note Samba again...

One note and I still can't hit the rhythm... it ain't the amount of notes ..it's how you play them

 

[dak]

One note and I still can't hit the rhythm... it ain't the amount of notes ..it's how you play them

It helps to realize that it is misnamed. It is the one-pitch Samba, but that pitch has to be played for several notes in succession.

 

[Ventura]

One note and I still can't hit the rhythm...

maybe try only playing the fundamental on the Bass side
and only hit the bassnote on beats 2 and 4, that way you
are getting into the syncopation of the thing, and the
melody side then fit's itself in a bit easier

if this works for you, after you get it going in a few weeks
you can hit soome of the bass notes quick double hits (stacatto style)
to get that rhythm feeling a bit more latin

 

[oldbayan]

This can happen with other instruments or devices that requires fine motor skills. After spending time practicing, the brain seems to suddenly connect all the pieces together without us putting our attention to it, and bing! Your fingers magically find all the right buttons. What helped me a lot while learning CBA is to identify patterns and triads, in all keys and modes. For example, some notes sequences have the shape of an X, or a diagonal line, etc. The brain eventually can predict which pattern to use in each passage.

 

[losthobos]

The right note in the wrong time becomes the wrong note

 

[Javthedog]

Practice and experience........experience and practice......probably why virtuosi start young! Interesting!