Study & education

build muscle memory

make movements automatic

To practise a movement repeatedly until your body can do it without much conscious thought.

B2 common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

Why are you repeating the same drill?

I am trying to build muscle memory.

Play the conversation

Daily scales helped me build muscle memory for the difficult fingering.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I’m building muscle memory in the piano.

Say: I’m building muscle memory on the piano.

Use “on” for the instrument you practise on.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

build muscle memory; build muscle memory for something

Your turn: say it out loud

Daily scales helped me build muscle memory for the difficult fingering.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

build muscle memory

make movements automatic

“Daily scales helped me build muscle memory for the difficult fingering.”

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