Skeletal Functional Dynamics and Feldenkrais Method

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Skeletal Functional Dynamics and Feldenkrais Method

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Welcome to Pianotechnique.org, the website that presents a new approach to piano technique, I'm Alan Fraser.

What's new about this approach everything under the sun was already been said about piano technique yes and no yes we already have great resources and no because it's never been said in the context of skeletal functional dynamics.

As seen in the view of feldenkrais method now I was lucky in that I had teachers who demonstrated this view and who taught this you although it was far from mainstream piano technique and then I did a feldenkrais training in order to deepen my understanding of this whole idea of skeletal function what's that I'm not a walking skeleton but in a way we all are walking skeleton and the elegance and sophistication of the human body is that so the elegance and sophistication of the human hand is that if two can walk in verticality on the keyboard.

Of course my arm is not up here near vertical but imitates the actions of lying down standing up walking running jumping on the keyboard just as the human body walks in real life and that idea alone taken to all sorts of pianistic problems octaves rich chords fast passes work singing melodic line all of these things can be transformed largely by taking out the all down which we all indulging because of the teaching relax relax play The Lacs yes play relax but play with your skeletal structure in good shape and a good function I invite you to trutein to me to browse the sample videos here and to enter the full site to take.

Look at the richness of this approach and the many manifestations in the hundreds of hours of teaching that are here welcome.

*This transcript is machine generated.

Sep 28, 2018

Alan Fraser

Intro to Piano Kinematics

Episode 1 - Skeletal Functional Dynamics and Feldenkrais Method 02:23

Episode 2 - There is no Drop 04:38

Episode 3 - One Fundamental Idea that will Change Your Piano Technique 06:43

Episode 4 - Everything we do is Intimately Related to the Musical Content 06:25

Episode 5 - Elasticity Explained 04:48

Episode 6 - Slowing Down the Keys and Making Big Sound 04:15

Episode 7 - Body Awareness That Leads to Musical Spontaneity 06:11

Episode 8 - Injury and Dystonia 11:35

Episode 9 - What is Mindful Practice 05:05

Episode 10 - Scales and Arpeggios - The Major Pillar in Your Piano Technique 05:57

Episode 11 - Becoming One with the Instrument 02:38

Episode 12 - The Physical And the Musical 18:31

Episode 13 - It's not just Music, it's Poetry 04:26

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Intro to Piano Kinematics