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DATE: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 13:24:59 CST
From: cybermensch
Subject: Re: Playing while driving

I must agree with Bart de Boer. Playing while riding a bicycle is
good for developing breath control. It's also good for developing balance
if you use both hands to play. It may also serve to develop large scrapes
and contusions if you don't watch out.
I practiced "In the Mood" on the chromey every day while riding the 2
miles to school. Since, of course, my primary concern was safety, I paid
most of my attention to the road. The actual details of the song, each
motion necessary to play it, had to be learned in an "automatic" way.
It's as if all the knowledge associated with that song is now in my
spinal cord, rather than in my brain. I can hardly recall how to play it,
when I try to imagine, yet I can play it with so little concentration
that I could understand a conversation while playing.
Perhaps then, bicycle riding is a good time to practice scales and
basic licks-- things you want your mouth to know without thinking about
them.

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Spence Pearson pearso~tt.colordo.edu

cybermensch University of Colorado, Boulder
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