The following passage, while written about knitting, is SO applicable to cello learning! Both are about teaching one's hands to do new & different things.
"Most people learn to knit by rote. That is, they are told or shown exactly what to do with their hands and yarn and needles, step by step. At first doing it is extremely awkward. Then it gets easier. Hands learn things far more slowly than minds do. You tell your fingers what to do and expect instant obedience, but it takes a while for fingers to figure out just how to obey. ...
... . Once their hands know how to do whatever needs to be done, their heads begin to catch up. They begin paying attention to the fabric that is appearing under their hands."
BK// "knitting for anarchists" by anna zilboorg
...and I hope that anyone who looks at people who have studied with me will see principles rather than clones -- for that is surely my wish.
