Fingers
27 videos tagged with this topic.
Pianimals warmup excericises
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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
Pianimals warmup excericises
06:15
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
Learning how to learn
05:47
Why fingers get ahead and how music flows
Understanding why we lose control when music starts flowing. Alan explains how tempo can take over and provides strategies for staying in the driver's seat.
12:49
Improving finger technique for better sound and less fatigue
Alan demonstrates how proper finger positioning—keeping fingertips up and thumbs down—produces richer harmonies, reduces fatigue, and enables playing all notes in complex chords, transforming a student's performance dramatically
Activate the fingers to make the piano sing
15:15
Train your hand to the certain point and the ear will do the rest
Thinking mind is too slow, ears on the other hand can make the refinement
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]
04:17
The great deal of robust positive standing energy
if your finger stays tense your thumb is not standing well, same for fingers, if they are solid, thumb will be fine
The thumb is the basis of standing
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The thumb is the basis of standing
04:16
Profound functional adjustment
Standing up frees up your forearm and therefore there is less tension
Pianimals
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Pianimals
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How to do Cortot exercises
02:23
Awaken the main part of the hand
Forget holding an apple, supination does not let your hand fall down
How to do Cortot exercises
04:18
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
How to do Cortot exercises
05:44
Finger islation is totallty anti functional
In independence, there is always inter dependence
Arm Weight Technique - Myth and Reality
04:47
Teaching All These Piano Techniques to Young Pianists
Teaching piano is hard. How about the old "hold the apple" routine?
Arm Weight Technique - Myth and Reality
06:59
Rich and Powerful Sound With Arm Weight Technique
Alan explains the real mechanics behind the arm weight technique
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]
03:36
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]
08:32
Kiddie Craft Demo Series
01:08
Scales with Injury
05:49
The Functional Relationship of Thumb and the Finger
Making a tiny adjustments and the thumb being activated
03:34
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1]
01:42
AFF Institute - SLC 2015
06:30
Elastic Bowing Movement in the Finger
Alan talks about curved finger curles, Glenn Gould and Horowitz and other various techniques
AFF Institute - Ottawa 2015
05:58
Lay Down Your Flat Hand
Alan talks about flat fingers, unified flection and agogics
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1]
07:16
Arm Weight - Way to Go or Not?
04:05
Differentiation of Fingers and the Arm
Alan explains what the arm weight is and how people fail to explain it well
AFF Institute - Victoria, BC 2015
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On Structure - Standing - Pressure
Lots of things going on in this lesson. Alan mainly talks about hand structure and function
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1]
08:18