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AFF Institute - SLC 2015

Salt Lake City 2015

14 episodes 1:25:26 Intermediate Finished Archived series

Episodes

  1. 1 Organic Use of the Hand at the Piano Alan sharing new discoveries 09:46
  2. 2 Elastic Placement for Better Scales Overholding, springy wrist and elasticity 07:00
  3. 3 Making the Piano Sound Exceptional Hand's structure and function and how does that relate to the sound 06:35
  4. 4 Equal and Opposite Reaction for Better Structure Application of Newton's third law on hand's structure 04:33
  5. 5 Basic Function of the Hand Alex just had his first lesson with Alan. He learns how to use his hands efficiently 09:04
  6. 6 Elastic Bowing Movement in the Finger Alan talks about curved finger curles, Glenn Gould and Horowitz and other various techniques 06:30
  7. 7 Scarlatti K 141 Alan talks about Suzuki method, cat scratch motion, curly fingers and repeated notes 11:26
  8. 8 Movable Structure The importance of movable structure when playing the piano 07:30
  9. 9 Unstable Equilibrium Completely unstable but balanced hand 03:31
  10. 10 The Organic Hand Translate vertical movement to horizontal phrase shaping 04:38
  11. 11 The Functional Thumb Thumb's role and function in a healthy structure 01:57
  12. 12 Functional Look of The Hand Alan talks about how student's hands transform and look better when being functional 04:19
  13. 13 Shake Hands with The Piano In a moving way..the propper way to touch the piano 03:02
  14. 14 Smooth Scales Alan helps a student iron out his scales 05:35