Translucent sound for improved expression

Episodes

1. 1 Why is the hand arch so important? Kind of a rudimentary question but often neglected. 04:44
2. 2 Arm weight technique can actually sound very well It also depends on what kind of sound you are going for 03:05
3. 3 It's not an octave, it's two orchestral voices The way you stand up in your hand could and should allow for this 03:00
4. 4 There is more about rotation then just simple hand rotation What if we applied the science of human walking to the hand rotation 04:12
5. 5 Rotation in scales and arpeggios It's not only the hands are involved in rotation process but the whole body 03:22
6. 6 We pay attention to the physical so we can forget about the physical And use our ears and play the music 00:55
7. 7 Weighted touch is not good for phrasing You can't think horizontally if you play the piano vertically 03:01
8. 8 Musical mind and physical mechanism should work together This is how you phrase at the piano 05:29
9. 9 Develop sensitivity to the piano key Develop capcacity to deal with the key 04:12
10. 10 Two hour piano lesson on one note Piano is a percussion instrument. What kind of sound we get back depents of a kind of touch we provide 02:31
11. 11 Nobody learned to walk by walking Alan talks about the one year pre-standing apprenticeship which we have all gone through and how it applies to piano 03:25
12. 12 The wisdom of the skeleton is what allows you to move well The more security you can feel in your hand, it reflects on the whole playing apparatus 06:33
13. 13 This is pure sound Arm weight with arm skeleton 05:03
14. 14 Access the voice of the piano One of the goals in this floating melodic singing, not chipped up sound 04:15