Alan helps out a student with an injury. A unique insight on how to practice and treat an injured hand.
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.
Intro lesson to the Scales and Injury series
Alan and Jean are working around the injury and trying to make the thumb work again
Alan is building student's arch from the ground up in a few steps
Making a tiny adjustments and the thumb being activated
Stable wrist, rotation and functional thumb are prerequisites for healthy scales
Alan is showing Jean a few exercises for the left hand scales.
