Quote Originally Posted by jarrhead View Post
Mottus, as an accomplished bass player, I don't believe any of what you're saying is very true. There is a point where what you play is only to play it cleaner. However, you can't practice without the instrument. No matter how well you know the piece, the pressure you apply, your floating thumb, your action, your intonation, and the reactions to all that, will be off in a dream.
Hi jarrhead, it's great to find other musicians also interested in LDing! No disrespect, but I DO believe that you can practice a piece of music without your instrument. You say that the pressure, and reactions etc will be off in the dream.

That may be true for some people...but in my case, I study guitar at a university where I am required to play the same pieces over and over again every single day. The focus is on playing the piece the exact same way every single time so that when you walk on stage in front of people, you won't be nervous, because you have played the piece the exact same way a countless number of times.

If I already know how the pressure, reactions etc..will feel like in waking life (because they are the same every time), then they will also be the same when I go to practice the piece in my dream.