Alan talks about Hanon
Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.
If you read it every time, you are missing the point
link the physical and musical experience
stand up fully on each note
and requires specific yet fluid hand adjustments
Basically training your motor neurons
It's about the speed really
hidden in the foregroudn patterns
Alan outlines some good practices while working with hanon exercises
