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I have just finished reading 'Honing the Pianistic Image'. It's absolutely amazing. This and the Craft of Piano Playing are the best books on piano playing by miles. I think I was fortunate that Yonty Solomon had introdu...

I'm a piano intermediate/beginner, having played badly (and with bad habits) for five years in childhood. I'm taking it up again and want to do it right this time. I had one amazing lesson with Alan via Skype. We focused...

Cziffra occasionally uses UD and that's unavoidable. But some of this I would refer to as positioning individual fingers in line with the arm in order to avoid tension- a subject that was very dear to his fellow student...

Season 2, we are back!

As stated before, I do not know too much about Feldenkrais so far, but I do have a question about its view of habits, mental blocks and the relation between them. Is it correct to assume that mental blocks can be addr...

Hello Forum I am somewhat reluctant to post in this forum because this could suggest that I am in the same legue - as far as piano playing goes - as the other posters. This could not be further from the truth! Having da...

Hi all, As the title suggests, I'm wondering what's the way to play (and more importantly, to practice) very fast passages with staccato. May be this has been covered in "the Craft of piano playing" book indirectly...

ok, so my DVD is on it's way... After reading the book, participating in several masterclasses, having several private lessons with Alan and seing the DVD excerpt now, I have to say the following about his aproach:...