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Hi Tianhui,
Hmm…interesting. This isn’t too uncommon, for what it’s worth. Like, if you were to try to visualize swimming or riding a bike or even running really fast and tried to imagine every single muscle movement, you would probably have a difficult time with that too since much of this is already in muscle memory and at a pretty high autonomous level of skill where you don’t have to think consciously about every single muscle movement to execute the task successfully.
Whether this is a big deal or not might depend on what you’re trying to gain from the visualization. As in, if you’re trying to clarify your musical intention, the kind of sound you want, etc., then being able to visualize what your fingers are doing may not be quite as important. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to improve some technical aspect of your playing, then being able to feel/see the fingers in your mind might be more important.
I wonder if having a model of some recording in your head might help to increase the speed/success of your mental runthroughs? Like, would it help to listen to a recording you like, while visualizing the feel of your fingers playing along as you listen? And then start weaning yourself off of the recording while still hearing it in your head while feeling your fingers move?
Noa
