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Alan Fraser
Intro to Piano Kinematics
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Alan Fraser
Big Sound
Big sound - how to archive it? Lessons, lectures and tutorials on big sound
Alan Fraser
Basics of piano somatics
From a lecture given in Berlin, January 2023
Alan Fraser
Activate the fingers to make the piano sing
A lesson where we take a very simple Czerny etude and show you how to activate the fingers which are straining instead of zinging.
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1
Scales with Injury
Alan helps out a student with an injury. A unique insight on how to practice and treat an injured hand.
6 videos Start -
2
Performance Injury - Road to Recovery
Alan's video diary as he goes though recovery process (herniated discs in neck)
16 videos Start -
3
Intro to Piano Kinematics
New to the site? Why not start here and get acquainted with what we are all about here
13 videos Start -
4
How to do Cortot exercises
Alan goes through a set of Alfred Cortot's exercises from the Rational Principles of Pianoforte Technique
9 videos Start
All series
16
Shostakovich second sonata
3
Liszt - Transcendental etudes
28
Pianimals warmup excericises
8
Piano Learning Through Feldenkrais: A Holistic Approach
8
Learning how to learn
6
Scales - a growing hand arch, a responding arm
7
Arpeggios - a seminal systematic approach
6
Tonus tales: From sits bones to flickery fingers
6
Mastering octaves through tensegrity: The whole-body approach
7
Elastically loading the hand arch structure for brilliant octave technique
5
From pianissimo to fortissimo - controlling terraced dynamics powerful orchestration
6
Engage the whole body to cure stage fright
7
Dystonia Exercises - Scale Patterns
1
Use the whole self to grow the hand arch
6
Chopin - Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1
17
Alan's bits
7
Activate the fingers to make the piano sing
13
Practical applications of piano somatics
14
Translucent sound for improved expression
16
Basics of piano somatics
6
The Basics - Lying Standing Walking Running
10
The hand arch and the body
12
Awakening an inert hand
2
Alan's insights
6
"Horizontalizing" the piece
6
Quick improvement in intermediate repertoire
5
Awareness through piano movement
13
A dozen a day
12
Kemal Gekic in Montreal (1988)
8
Hanon exercises
6
Move the arm laterally to improve finger agility
5
Legato
3
Kinderszenen - Robert Schumann Op.15
15
The thumb is the basis of standing
1
Pulse Patterning
40
Pianimals
9
How to do Cortot exercises
8
Chopin ballades
5
Chopin - Nocturne in E minor, op. 72 no. 1
8
Playing with the broken arm
4
Trills and Embelishments
11
Jazz Piano & Physical Movement
10
The Physics of Orchestration
7
Prokofiev - Sonata No 3 in a Minor
10
Big Sound
11
Biotensegrity: A New View Of Anatomy And Its Implications For Piano Technique
24
Quick technique tips for the chopin etudes
9
Chopin Etudes Op. 25
3
Chopin - The Second Ballade with Kemal
4
Alan teaches Scriabin Op.9
13
Intro to Piano Kinematics
4
Weight Unsuited to Moving a Lever
11
Unstable Equilibrium
5
Chopin Etudes Op. 10
17
Arm Weight Technique - Myth and Reality
6
Bach's Inventions
16
Performance Injury - Road to Recovery
6
Micrortiming And A New Expressive Aesthetic
15
Let's Learn The Well Tempered Clavier
5
PianoTechnique.org News
4
Physical Organization for Piano Teachers
7
The Three Pianistic Cardinal Directions of Movement
7
Piano Technique and Jazz Pianists
8
Rhythm is Everything
6
The Thumb Integrated Into the Hand
6
Larger and Warmer Sound
8
The Antigravity Function and Biotensegrity
5
Alan Fraser & Other Musicians
11
Kemal Gekic Recital - Koningsfeld 2015
24
All About Scales and Arpeggios
4
The Art of Frederic
20
Alan's update
37
Kiddie Craft Demo Series
9
How to Teach Arm Weight Technique?
4
Technique & Musicianship
54
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]
3
Pianists and Focal Dystonia
6
The Good Arm Weight Technique
9
Practical Technique Tips
12
Mephisto Waltz No. 1 with Kemal Gekic
8
World Of Debussy Articulations
8
How do we use rotation?
10
Awareness Through Movement for Pianists
14
Elements of Effective Piano Technique
7
The Famous Pianists
9
Wilde Jagd With Kemal Gekic
13
Young Pianists
6
Scales with Injury
5
Different Arm Use in Forte and Piano
4
How to Use PianoTechnique.org
7
The Thumb - Organic Approach
7
The Organic Hand
10
All About The Thumb
10
Phil Cohen and Alan Fraser
11
Why Do We Have Technical Problems?
7
Arm Weight - Way to Go or Not?
45
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1]
2