Arm Weight Technique - Myth and Reality

Episodes

1. 1 Teach Your Hand to Walk A paralel between human walking and piano walking 06:05
2. 2 Feel The Weight of Your Arm But it's not only that, isn't it? 05:25
3. 3 Rich and Powerful Sound With Arm Weight Technique Alan explains the real mechanics behind the arm weight technique 06:59
4. 4 Eastern European Arm Weight Technique Seems to be very vertical in it's approach but the hand needs to be "lateralized" at some point 06:56
5. 5 Playing Chords in an Organized Way As long as our hands are standing and not falling 06:43
6. 6 Curling of Nail Joints Is curling the nail joints or fingers weakening arches of the hand? 05:13
7. 7 Loose Finger Joints and the Arm Weight Technique We need to provide certain neurological sensory images for our brain 04:10
8. 8 Helping Double Jointed Students What to do when your piano student is double jointed 01:31
9. 9 Teaching All These Piano Techniques to Young Pianists Teaching piano is hard. How about the old "hold the apple" routine? 04:47
10. 10 Ulnar Deviation and Piano Another way of using our skeletal mechanics at the piano 03:21
11. 11 Do Not Loose Your Hand Structure It affects the sound as well as induces tension in the wrist and forearm 03:30
12. 12 If you See the Hand Swiveling Horizontally Then the thumb and fingers aren't functional 03:08
13. 13 The Thumb Goes Under or Maybe Not The oldest questions in the piano book 03:48
14. 14 The Kind of Tension You Really Want Being elastic without being tense 03:38
15. 15 Two Note Slurs What about slurs? Lots of elasticity! 05:06
16. 16 Elastic Chords How does all this apply to chords? 04:27
17. 17 Fight the Stiffness with Posture Everybody is different. Teachers should really adjust to their students 04:04