if your finger stays tense your thumb is not standing well, same for fingers, if they are solid, thumb will be fine
Don't swivel, stand up
Standing up frees up your forearm and therefore there is less tension
Pianimals teachers exercise 12
Pianimals teachers exercise 4
Forget holding an apple, supination does not let your hand fall down
Everybody wants to over secure but tense up. Arm needs to be in motion all the time
In independence, there is always inter dependence
Teaching piano is hard. How about the old "hold the apple" routine?
Alan explains the real mechanics behind the arm weight technique
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Fingers/thumb and the wrist
Making a tiny adjustments and the thumb being activated
A question about lifting fingers and finger action
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Alan talks about curved finger curles, Glenn Gould and Horowitz and other various techniques
Alan talks about flat fingers, unified flection and agogics
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Alan explains what the arm weight is and how people fail to explain it well
Lots of things going on in this lesson. Alan mainly talks about hand structure and function
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