My late Uncle was posted to Burma during world war two and I remember him telling me of a soldier in his platoon who was a pianist.Unable to have access to a piano,he painted the black and white keys on a piece of wood and used it to memorise notes as he played them saying he could visulise the sound of each note in his head.
There's a well-known book out called Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. I read it twice. They experimented with professional basket ball players....put them in three groups. First group practiced physically shooting balls at the basket, next group did nothing at all (no practice), third group......!!!!!.....just stood there looking at the basket and IMAGINING they were shooting the ball into the basket. Weeks later when they tested them again, group A showed progress, group B showed NO progress, and....Group C, who played basketball in their minds only, showed as much progress as Group A!!!
There's a similar book for musicians...about learning and playing music using "mind power techniques!"
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