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Originally Posted by moonrambler  but what if we make it Learn to Play Piano Like Elton John in 7 Days. |
Speaking of which, I play the guitar. Just for fun, I'm decent at it but not a pro or anything like that.
You know, when a person has just started learning to play the guitar, one of the challenges is to tune the strings. You have to tune the strings so that they are exactly the E, A, D G, B and E notes (the standard tuning), and then you can play guitar without sounding out of tune.
One of the frustrating things when you're a beginner is that you find it difficult to tune the strings. For example, you are with a more-experienced friend, and you tune your guitar strings, and he hears you play, and he says, "Your 4th string is tuned too low."
You can't tell the difference. You tune it up a little, and then your friend says, "Your 4th string is still too low." You tune it up a little, and then your friend says, "Hey, it's too high now." You still can't tell the difference, so you tune it down a little, and then your friend says, "Can't you hear? It's too low now." Etc.
In music, we talk about "training the ear". Of course, we are not really training the ear. If a doctor looks into a musician's ear, the inside will look the same as a non-musician's ear. It's not as if the musician's ear has extra muscles or a different kind of ear-drum or whatever.
We're really training the brain. The same sound waves from the guitar enter the musician's and non-musician's ears, but the musician's brain is trained to detect and discriminate between the frequencies, much more acutely than the non-musician.
Now imagine there are two people. One is a IM/LOA expert, and the other is not. In other words, one has trained his brain to operate in an IM way, but the other person has not.
Then they are asked to do an experiment. "Each of you, please manifest a red hat," we tell them. What do you think will happen?
Is it not a little like the musician and non-musician, as far as tuning guitar strings is concerned?