Why are you reporting this information again? For what purpose? You’re NOT using it in the context of what you ORIGINALLY WROTE… and my response to what you ORIGINALLY wrote… you’re just repeating yourself?
you wrote:
“. Which is stupid. But hey, Lyoto Machida did it, so if you do it, you’ll be like Lyoto Machida, right?”
See, here is the problem… you’re assuming that some players are practicing exercises like this, simply because “super guitarist X” said so. People who see worth, and understand that exercises like these serve a specific purpose, don’t believe in the fantasies that you purport. Keep attacking strawmen if you like though.
@Tom_Gilroy
you won’t acknowledge the difference between what you call soup… and the demonstrated medicinal power of bone broth… the healing of the gut, strengthens immunity, etc.
You used a poor analogy to discredit a position. but won’t even acknowledge it?
I am NOT misrepresenting your position, i’m responding to what you WROTE.
you wrote:
" Also, you’re very strongly misrepresenting my position. I have never said that all non-musical exercises are wasteful."
you also wrote:
“…but there’s essentially zero transfer of training to actual guitar playing.”
“…I see no value to practicing this at all.”
“…It is my opinion that practicing exercises such as these is largely worthless”
“…We have to be able to move past “common sense” and “folk wisdom.”
“…They’re giving us chicken soup for our colds.”
Again, I largely agree with you here, exercises such as there are merely vehicles for actual playing, they facilitate focus, mind/muscle connection. I never ONCE believed they would make me proficient at technical playing, simply because they were 'difficult".
