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Videos tagged with 'Exercises'

Dance with the piano

Alan is talking about and demonstrating the natural flow of the body that is required while playi...

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15 Sep 2022 04:51 Beginner ATM

Educate the motor cortex

Our focused mind can only handle so much while we play. We need to educate the body how to play

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13 Sep 2022 04:01 Beginner ATM

Four sit bones

or ischial tuberosity

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08 Sep 2022 04:08 Beginner ATM

My head stays in the middle

A Feldenkrais exercise demonstrated by Alan

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02 Sep 2022 04:51 Beginner ATM
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14 Jul 2022 05:21 Intermediate Lesson
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04 Jul 2022 05:24 Intermediate Lesson

Deep knee bend

Deep knee bend

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13 Dec 2021 04:14 Beginner Lesson

Cantilever hand

An exercise for the bouncy feeling that works out the muscles

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09 Dec 2021 03:45 Beginner ATM

Deep breathing

Deep breathing is done with the pelvis

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07 Dec 2021 04:04 Beginner Lesson

Hopping

Hopping exercise

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25 Nov 2021 05:54 Beginner Lesson

Skipping

Move the arm behind the finger

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09 Nov 2021 06:52 Beginner Information

Walking and running

Alan thinks walking and running follows up a bit later in the process but..

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02 Nov 2021 05:12 Beginner Information

"Cliffhang" to curl the fingertip

Pianimals teachers exercise 28

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26 Aug 2020 03:17 Beginner Information

A growing hand arch even in octaves

Pianimals teachers exercise 27

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23 Aug 2020 04:03 Beginner Information

Get rid of the "down", especially in forte

Pianimals teachers exercise 26

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19 Aug 2020 02:56 Beginner Information
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17 Aug 2020 02:54 Beginner Information

Rotation

Pianimals teachers exercise 24

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15 Aug 2020 01:24 Beginner Information

Overholding

Pianimals teachers exercise 23

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13 Aug 2020 02:32 Beginner Information

Whip the arm up to play a fast scale

Pianimals teachers exercise 22

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11 Aug 2020 02:52 Beginner Information

Stand on 2nd finger, reach thumb to inside

Pianimals teachers exercise 21

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09 Aug 2020 02:48 Beginner Information

A snapping scale

Pianimals teachers exercise 20

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07 Aug 2020 01:37 Beginner Information

Sauntering

Pianimals teachers exercise 19

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02 Aug 2020 01:34 Beginner Information
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30 Jul 2020 04:32 Beginner Information

Manipulate the key: grab its edge

Pianimals teachers exercise 17

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22 Jul 2020 01:31 Beginner Information

Turn the hand into a bell clapper: bong the keys

Pianimals teachers exercise 16

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22 Jul 2020 02:00 Beginner Information
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17 Jul 2020 02:43 Beginner Information

Make the hand a roly-poly

Pianimals teachers exercise 14

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17 Jul 2020 02:57 Beginner Information
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16 Jul 2020 02:23 Beginner Information

A floating arm, a feather standing finger

Pianimals teachers exercise 12

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16 Jul 2020 02:20 Beginner Information

The thumb: tromping trolls and leaping stallions

Pianimals teachers exercise 11

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16 Jul 2020 02:13 Beginner Information

The aligator jaw

Pianimals teachers exercise 10

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16 Jul 2020 02:43 Beginner Information

The crocodile jaw

Pianimals teachers exercise 9

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14 Jul 2020 01:35 Beginner Information

Different types of bird beak

Pianimals teachers exercise 8a

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14 Jul 2020 02:20 Beginner Information

Fingers form a bird beak

Pianimals teachers exercise 7

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14 Jul 2020 03:49 Beginner Information

The versatile, agile, potent thumb

Pianimals teachers exercise 6

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14 Jul 2020 05:11 Beginner Information

Flopping and rolling

Pianimals teachers exercise 5

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05 Jul 2020 02:10 Beginner Information

Heel sinks, fingers cat scratch

Pianimals teachers exercise 4

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05 Jul 2020 01:00 Beginner Information

Sink heel, peck keys with bird beak fingers

Pianimals teachers exercise 3

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05 Jul 2020 02:18 Beginner Information

Sink heel, flop fingers

Pianimals teachers exercise 2

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21 Jun 2020 02:45 Beginner Information

The most beautiful sound in the world

Pianimals teachers exercise 1

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19 Jun 2020 04:14 Beginner Information

5 finger overholding

Exercise 12

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12 Jun 2020 02:18 Beginner Information

The cat scratch

Exercise 11

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12 Jun 2020 02:18 Beginner Information

Hooking

Exercise 10

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12 Jun 2020 02:43 Beginner Information

Rotation in leaps

Exercise 9

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12 Jun 2020 02:38 Beginner Information

Rolling

Exercise 7

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09 Jun 2020 01:37 Beginner Information

Walking

Exercise 6

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07 Jun 2020 01:58 Beginner Information

Poking

Exercise 5

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07 Jun 2020 01:34 Beginner Information

Sliding

Exercise 4

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06 Jun 2020 01:58 Beginner Information

Standing

Exercise 3

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05 Jun 2020 01:19 Beginner Information

Empower the thumb

Exercise 2

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04 Jun 2020 02:14 Beginner Information
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28 May 2020 01:50 Beginner Information

Increasing the horizontal stretch

You hands might be small but you can still stretch them

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13 May 2020 02:50 Beginner Information

My arm moves me through the phrase

We need to be well balanced when playing the piano, no other way.

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11 May 2020 03:52 Beginner Information
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30 Apr 2020 04:22 Beginner Information

Awaken the main part of the hand

Forget holding an apple, supination does not let your hand fall down

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28 Apr 2020 02:23 Beginner Information

If the arm freezes, it's game over

Everybody wants to over secure but tense up. Arm needs to be in motion all the time

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26 Apr 2020 04:18 Beginner Information

Finger islation is totallty anti functional

In independence, there is always inter dependence

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24 Apr 2020 05:44 Beginner Information
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19 Apr 2020 03:56 Beginner Information

Thumb flexion is not good for your hand

Thumb can move in three different ways but we don't want to flex it really

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18 Apr 2020 04:59 Beginner Information

Neurological mechanisms make our actions smooth

And we don't really think about it in our day to day activities

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16 Apr 2020 05:05 Beginner Information

Hand like a lung exercise

Exploring horizontal movement of the injured hand

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11 Feb 2020 06:23 Beginner Lesson

Useful Bird Beak Exercise

Rene shows his exercise he uses with his studenta

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09 Dec 2019 03:36 Beginner Information

Piano Exercises for Beginners

A bit of theory and hands on exercises with young pianists. From Montreal, CA 2019 workshop

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20 May 2019 30:59 Beginner Lecture

A few exercises for the functional hand

Alan is demonstrating a few important concepts

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10 Apr 2019 03:25 Intermediate Lecture

Exercises for Injured Thumb

Alan and Jean are working around the injury and trying to make the thumb work again

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27 Oct 2016 05:20 Intermediate Lesson

Linking the Hands to the Body

Warmup session designed to sync movements of pelvis with the hands

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10 Sep 2016 03:37 Intermediate Lesson
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26 Jul 2015 17:06 Intermediate Lesson

Slow Hand Exercises Part 2

We continue where we left off in part 1

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03 Jul 2015 18:22 Intermediate Lesson

Slow Hand Exercises Part 1

A follow up lesson where Alan and Will practice core principles like the arch on slow excercises

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21 Jun 2015 15:49 Intermediate Lesson