Hi.

> I've played pieces on piano that have 8-9 fingers at a time plus
> pedaling.  I've played pieces that have just 2 fingers and no pedal
> that are much harder.  So, the number of mental concepts doesn't map
> directly the number of appendages in use.  The muddying factor here
> is chunking.  Familiar chords or riffs will seem like single mental
> chunks, not groups of individual notes.  A good musician will have
> lots of chunks and so doesn't have to think as hard.  Note that no
> musician has ever been good without a lot of training -- they must
> be learning *something* during that time!

It seems it would be fair to say that music is harder to play when the
decoding of the score generates more chunks.  Then, music would be
harder when the chunks you know are not enough to keep the decoder's
chunk output in check so there's no finger chunk buffer overruns, right?

Andres.