Science Says Guitar Players’ Brains Are Actually Different From Everybody Else’s

Starise
From what I've seen some players are more abstract while others are more concrete in terms of how they approach music. If you had formal training or have taken guitar lessons for a long time you're probably applying the technical without thinking about it. Some have even deeper abilities.
 

Mesh
No thanks....not interested in your scientology/cosmology.

tlw
An article stating the very obvious about any competent musician capable of playing with others.

Equally applicable to any group activity relying on synchronising different people to do things together I would have thought. And switching off conscious thinking about the minutia of playing an instrument and going with muscle memory and rehearsed and ingrained habits applies to good instrumentalists, singers, typists, driving......

After all, all that practice is intended to get us to the point where we can play without thinking "press 1st finger left hand down behind third fret on 2nd string, pluck second string with plectrum, now press 3rd finger behind 4th fret on 3rd string, pluck 3rd string, bend string upwards a bit" all the time. And that applies to any instrument.

Nothing to do with whether someone learns material from sheet music or entirely by ear either, the mechanics are the same other than sheet music saves time working out what the notes are, though for many genres it doesn't convey style or 'feel' very well. And anyway, many musicians do both.

What I'd like to know is why I can co-ordinate my hands perfectly well enough to play guitar, bass, a few other stringed instruments and some of the accordion family but I'm hopeless at two-handed keyboard playing.