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Chapter 28 - Curling the finger
We finally addresse the age old question of finger curling, putting it into a more functional context of the hand's motor development.
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Chapter 27 - Baby flamingo
39:05 Chapter 27 pronates and supinates the hand while holding a large interval, to increase the suppleness of an octave without reducing its strength and agility
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Chapter 26 - Forte Flying Fox
Forte Flying Fox is explained and dispensed with in only a few seconds, integrating the movements of the previous chapter into an actual playing situation
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Chapter 25 - Kangaroo Chords
We explore growing the hand arch suddenly, as if the fingers were a diver's legs springing off a diving board
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Chapter 24 - Rotating Rattlesnake
We explore keeping the hand supple in an octave by pronating it and supinating it while holding onto a large interval
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Chapter 23 - Slinky Snail
Slinky Snail has the same kind of quick finger action, but while overholding - to inflate the hand in a deliciously free manner
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Chapter 22 - Barmy bunnies and the idea of snapping scale
Free the arm and the fingers for maximum velocity
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Chapter 21 - Arpeggios and stretching spider
We are talking about extending the thumb without collapsing the hand arch structure
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Chapter 20 - Snapping Scale
Activates the thumb, drawing it towards the fingers but in a moving way whether rather than a static, overly structured way
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Chapter 19 - Undifferentiated hand
Walking between two Yang fingers instead of a Yin and a Yang finger
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Chapter 18 - Fundamental differentiation between the yin and yang fingers of the hand
The Tai Chi empty step. Here we see the value of preparing the ground with the thumb individuation exercises of Section II
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Chapter 17 - From Walking to Running
Termite Temerity, where we learn to manipulate the key instead of pressing it down.
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Chapter 16 - The hand as a bell clapper
Here we go to the other extreme once again, making the hand literally into a high tonused but unweighted mallet
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Chapter 15 - Amorphous Amoeba
We return to a sensorially enriched let-go of the hand feel to melt it into the keys in a triad
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Chapter 9 - Quiet Crocodile
Explores the first degree of creating some independence for the thumb from the hand
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Chapter 2 - Sassy Seal
Exercises by maintaining relaxed arms while keeping fingers gently unified like a seal flipper
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Floating arm technique demonstration
Alan is showing how to move fingers and wrists fluidly while maintaining relaxed hand posture to create beautiful sounds without stiffening
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Pianimals warmup excericises intro - Connecting hands and body
A detailed demonstration on how the shoulder acts as a conduit between the hand and body during piano playing, emphasizing natural movements that allow the entire body to participate in creating music
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The standing action internalized for ringing and clarion sound
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Weighted vs unweighted walking: The tai chi empty step
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Turn the hand into a bell clapper: bong the keys
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Turn the hand into an amoeba, melt it into the keys
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Walking on stilts: playing with the back of the hand
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The thumb: tromping trolls and leaping stallions
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Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]
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Intro to Pianimals
A short lecture Alan gave on his latest project Pianimals in Montreal, Canada in March 2019