Honing The Pianistic Self Image: Skeletal Piano Technique

I am happy to bring good tidings! My latest book has been published and is available on our site. Just go to this page and place your order if you want a copy. I'll be interested to hear back from our forum members - your impressions, criticisms, things you learned from it, things that are clear, things that aren't... Enjoy! I myself am experiencing a much-needed break after a really intensive push to get it done followed by a month-long recital and master class tour. Aaaah, how nice to sit back and relax a bit! AFF

Nice to see it finished. Some Info about the Chapters/Contens would be nice.... Can you post the Contents-pages maybe ?

No sooner said than done! PART I: BEYOND A STABLE HAND STRUCTURE I INTRODUCTION 1 The Pianistic Self-Image 1 2 The Advantages of a Physical Approach 18 II THE ‘INNERLY-MOVING’ HAND PLATFORM 3 Stable & Unstable Equilibrium 25 4 A Functional Approach to Pianistic Standing 28 5 The Role of the Metacarpals 36 6 The Three Interlocking Arch Structures of the Hand (DVD 1-ii, 4-iii, viii) 48 7 The Second Metacarpal-Phalangeal: Focus of Potency in the Hand (DVD 1-vi, vii, x) 68 8 Moveable Pylons: Beyond Stability 83 9 Buoyant Bones 97 10 The Fourth: the Weakest Finger? 102 III SKELETALITY PHYSICAL & MUSICAL 11 Slow Practice Discovering ‘Rhythmic Bones’ 107 12 Archaic ATM (courtesy of F. Liszt) 113 13 Use Bone to Produce Tone 116 14 Bones Swimming in Liquid Hands 131 15 “Lightning Strikes Me Again” 135 16 The Differentiated Bird Beak 140 17 Using ‘Bones’ At Close Quarters 145 18 The Sound of Fingers Slapping the Keys 149 IV DIGITAL DIFFERENTIATION 19 Finger Action Synthesis in the Hook (DVD 4-vii) 153 20 A ‘Levers’ Lesson for Appassionata Sonata (DVD 4-v) 158 21 Which Finger Action? 166 22 The Thumb: Co-Dependent or Independent? (DVD 3-i) 171 23 Rotation in Scales & Leaps (DVD 3-v, 6-i, -viii, 8-iv,v) 189 24 Arm Weight in a New Light (DVD 5-v) 206 25 Arm Weight Pros & Cons (DVD 6-i) 214 26 Arm Weight and Arch Structure (DVD 8-iv, v) 219 V OTHER CONCEPTS EXAMINED & CLARIFIED 27 Arm Weight, Fixation & Joint Stabilization (DVD 8-ii, vi) 224 28 From Fixation to Whip Action (DVD 4-iv) 232 29 Tension? (DVD 5-iii) 237 30 Relaxation? 239 31 Flopping? 242 32 Falling? 245 33 Developing the Extensors? 246 34 A Summing Up 248 PART II: INTEGRATION VI LISTENING 35 The Body and Listening 255 36 Exactitude of Touch, Exactitude of Dynamic Control 259 37 Arnold Schultz on Legato 262 38 Redirecting a Misguided Sensitivity 265 39 Windows in Time 267 40 Spontaneity 272 VII BODY ATM’S 41 Dynamic Standing, Dynamic Sitting 279 42 Making Peace with Gravity 284 43 Body Fixation 294 VIII HAND ATM’S 44 Creating an Initial Pianistic Self-Image (DVD 1-vi, 2-iv, 4-iv, 3-i) 299 45 The Metacarpal as a Moveable Phalange 307 46 Skeletal Hand Consciousness (DVD 1-vi) 313 47 Thumb Rolling (DVD 3-iii) 318 IX HAND-BODY INTEGRATIVE ATM’S 48 Legato Between Your Feet and Your Seat 325 49 Sitting at the Piano 333 50 Lumbrical ATM 342 51 The Café ATM 351 X BLENDING THE BODY AND MUSIC 52 All the Ways We Mess It Up 371 53 The Various Guises of Skeletality in Piano Technique 373 XI LEARNING FROM THE GREAT INSTRUMENTS 54 Flat Fingers, High Arches & the Landowska Steinway 379 55 The Nature of Sound & Tonal Colour: The Horowitz Steinway 382 Appendix 389 Bibliography 391 Index 393