The whole body in action

Guitar & AT Project
Day 3/40

Continue to build on the work done on the previous 2 days.

I'm just about to sit down with the guitar, but first - pause. I notice that my knees are locked. They'll need to bent in order to sit down, so probably a fair amount of 'doing' will have to be involved in unlocking them. I ask for more freedom in the knees and also give directions: knees going forward, hips going back and head going up and down. Once I keep these directions going I have the sense that the body is now properly ready for sitting down. And indeed, little intention is needed to put it motion, the movement is close to effortless.

At the moment I have more interest in how the whole body is involved in the guitar practice, instead of just looking at the left hand fingers, or the release in the wrist of the right hand. I don't feel ready to properly zoom in on the hands in details yet, although I gave it some attention over the past few days. More detailed work on the GC Primaries soon. 

This week I spend the last 10 minutes of my practice playing. At one point today I looped one chord pattern and explored how is it to play it when paying attention to the whole body, especially when releasing the neck.