Sample Piano Technique Lessons

Sample Lessons

6 episodes 2:51:06 Beginner Finished Archived series

Episodes

1 Chopin-Hand Structure in the Harp Etude Part 2 Alan is throwing a lot of super useful info at the student. 14:11
2 Chopin-Etude Opus 10 No 1 From a small workshop in Amherst, MA 2016. 23:37
3 Working With Large Architectonic Structures in Music via Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 3, Alan talks about long term structures in music and planning 15:12
4 Hand Arch-Thumb Activation Exercises Arm should do most of the work, fingers are only keeping the keys down 46:34
5 Massive Sound in Liszt without Banging Liszt-WIlde Jagt-Transcendental Etude 50:53
6 Improve Hand Organization for More Beautiful Sound in Fats Waller Inner hand action and the thumb differentiation 20:39

Your teacher

Alan Fraser

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.