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Pianimals warmup excericises 04:39

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

A 20 Oct 2025 Beginner
Elastically loading the hand arch structure for brilliant octave technique 05:12

Feel your sitsbones

Every time we do these, they are different

A 07 Feb 2025 Beginner
Engage the whole body to cure stage fright 04:56

"Standing" on the keyboard is not hardwired into pianists

It's something we have to think about, incorporate it and it eventually becomes a second nature

A 25 Nov 2024 Beginner
Dystonia Exercises - Scale Patterns 03:49

Four entities that will help fingers do their job

Body, arm, wrist and the thumb

A 12 Nov 2024 Intermediate
Translucent sound for improved expression 03:25

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

A 05 Apr 2023 Beginner
Basics of piano somatics 04:40

Your piano practice should be a reflection of your mind flow

The music is flowing, so should your body

A 30 Jan 2023 Beginner
The hand arch and the body 03:32

Move the body

You have to move the body and find that sweet spot, not too tense, not too relaxed

A 29 Aug 2022 Beginner
16:13

Moving Whole Body to Move the Sound

Slide is the reflection of the horizontal nature of the tone. Do not lock your body

A 20 Dec 2019 Intermediate
Intro to Piano Kinematics 06:11

Body Awareness That Leads to Musical Spontaneity

Body and the musical content

A 21 Oct 2018 Intermediate
Unstable Equilibrium 04:46

I Feel So Free

There is a need for establishing proper lingo

A 14 Jul 2018 Intermediate
Phil Cohen and Alan Fraser 32:31

The Body

Phil Cohen talking about the relationship between body and the piano

A 17 May 2018 Advanced
Performance Injury - Road to Recovery 05:32

The Hand - Body Relationship

We not only need to radiate the stand up motion throughout the body but also look into hand body relationship

A 27 Mar 2018 Advanced
Phil Cohen and Alan Fraser 39:16

Rachmaninoff - G sharp Minor Prelude with Phil

40 minute lesson with Phil Cohen from 2014

A 02 Nov 2017 Advanced
Alan Fraser & Other Musicians 51:28

Alan Fraser Working with the Harpist

Tournier-Harp Composition. Bach-Suite Transcription

A 01 Jul 2017 Advanced
06:27

Body and Rotation

We are talking the conversation to the body ans Alan demonstrates

A 22 Sep 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Eitorf, Germany 2014 17:50

Whole Body Integrated with Hands Part 3

Part 3

A 06 Dec 2014 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Eitorf, Germany 2014 15:01

Whole Body Integrated with Hands Part 2

Part 2 - integrating hands and the whole body

A 01 Dec 2014 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Eitorf, Germany 2014 20:45

Whole Body Integrated with Hands Part 1

Alan is helping Ulli 'not ruining himself'!

A 27 Nov 2014 Intermediate
Alan Fraser's Institute - Ottawa July 2014 11:12

Questions about the body

Q&A session with Alan on the last day of Ottawa Institute - 2014

A 12 Nov 2014 Intermediate