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Pianimals warmup excericises 01:38

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

A 23 Apr 2026 Beginner
Engage the whole body to cure stage fright 06:25

The hands are encouraging the body

The hands are the first point of contact with the piano, hence we must make sure they are solid

A 02 Dec 2024 Beginner
The hand arch and the body 04:51

Dance with the piano

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

A 15 Sep 2022 Beginner
"Horizontalizing" the piece 04:02

Play like a salsa dancer

Fingers/legs moving while torso is still

A 07 Apr 2022 Intermediate
All About Scales and Arpeggios 09:26

Activate the standing muscles in your hand

and use them to play not only scales, but everything really

A 23 Nov 2020 Intermediate
Performance Injury - Road to Recovery 06:24

Individuation of the Sound

The hand has this amazing capacity to individuate parts of itself from within

A 08 Apr 2018 Advanced
Let's Learn The Well Tempered Clavier 09:19

Prelude in C Minor Book I

Bach - Prelude in C Minor BWV 847

J 05 Feb 2018 Intermediate
Sample Piano Technique Lessons 20:39

Improve Hand Organization for More Beautiful Sound in Fats Waller

Inner hand action and the thumb differentiation

A 08 Jan 2018 Intermediate
Pianists and Focal Dystonia 51:21
Rhythm is Everything 02:18

The Shock of Functionality to the Neuro Motor System

to get it out of certain patterns

A 13 Nov 2017 Advanced
Piano Technique and Jazz Pianists 12:52

Is Over Relaxtion Limiting Your Sound

Structured vs relaxed hand and the sound we get (bone connections

A 07 Nov 2017 Intermediate
The Antigravity Function and Biotensegrity 03:10

The Arch of the Hand is Always Elastically Loaded

Extreme Voicing opens up he sound of the piano, and the arch should be elastic

A 21 Jul 2017 Intermediate
Sample Piano Technique Lessons 46:34

Hand Arch-Thumb Activation Exercises

Arm should do most of the work, fingers are only keeping the keys down

A 24 Mar 2017 Intermediate
The Good Arm Weight Technique 01:44

Bringing Forearm Into the Picture

"Adding" the forearm to the hand

A 20 Mar 2017 Beginner
The Good Arm Weight Technique 03:47

Activate the Thumb

Alan is helping Adrien activate his thumb and make it a bit more organic by allowing it to push the hand up.

A 17 Mar 2017 Intermediate
How do we use rotation? 08:03

Rotation and Elastical Connection

Alan is building up Mario's collapsed hand. The hand is joined by elastic strings of bones and has hyper-snake like movement similar to Chopin's hand.

A 13 Mar 2017 Advanced
08:09

Hand - Back Relations And Bench Height

Is flexion in the hand echoed in extension of the back and we are also talking about the bench height

A 08 Mar 2017 Intermediate
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1] 05:29

Hand Stretching

Asked by: hadarmo2

A 20 Feb 2017 Intermediate
12:36

Chopin-Hand Structure in the Harp Etude Part 1

Chopin's Etude Op.25 #1 - Ohio, November 2016

A 08 Nov 2016 Intermediate
Scales with Injury 06:37

Rubinstein Arch

Alan is building student's arch from the ground up in a few steps

A 03 Nov 2016 Intermediate
05:42

The Right Kind of Movement

Muscles, hand, arch, movement

A 31 Oct 2016 Advanced
05:07

Pronation-Supination and the Hand Muscles

Deeging deeper in the hand function and movement, interossei, MCP

A 29 Oct 2016 Intermediate
Different Arm Use in Forte and Piano 05:04

Micro Rotation

Alan talks about micro rotation adjustments that are essential to playing

A 22 Oct 2016 Intermediate
The Thumb - Organic Approach 04:01

Intro

A new series on thumb in the light of the organic hand approach

A 19 Jul 2016 Beginner
The Organic Hand 06:06

Organic Hand Series Wrap Up

Alan wraps up the lecture and the series by talking about palm, harpsichord, walking..

A 14 Jun 2016 Intermediate
Hand Structure in Scales 06:16

Functional Walking and Organic Unity

Walking and the unity of the hand

A 24 May 2016 Intermediate
Hand Structure in Scales 05:24

Standing Hand in Scales

Alan is explaining how to 'stand up' the hand while playing scales

A 20 May 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - SLC 2015 03:02

Shake Hands with The Piano

In a moving way..the propper way to touch the piano

A 06 Apr 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - SLC 2015 04:19

Functional Look of The Hand

Alan talks about how student's hands transform and look better when being functional

A 02 Apr 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - SLC 2015 04:38

The Organic Hand

Translate vertical movement to horizontal phrase shaping

A 30 Mar 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - SLC 2015 03:31

Unstable Equilibrium

Completely unstable but balanced hand

A 30 Mar 2016 Intermediate
Why Do We Have Technical Problems? 04:08

The First Lesson-Hand Position

A question on how do we set up a beginner's hand on the piano

A 19 Mar 2016 Intermediate
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

A 04 Mar 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - SLC 2015 09:04

Basic Function of the Hand

Alex just had his first lesson with Alan. He learns how to use his hands efficiently

A 01 Mar 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Ottawa 2015 06:29

Structural Stability for Better Alberti Bass

Alan is talking about Alberti bass and hand structure

A 15 Feb 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - SLC 2015 09:46

Organic Use of the Hand at the Piano

Alan sharing new discoveries

A 03 Feb 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Ottawa 2015 05:27

Elastic Hand - Playing From Within The Key

Melt your hand into the piano and get alive sound

A 15 Jan 2016 Intermediate
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1] 07:16

Thumb and the Rest of the Hand

Asked by: hadarmo2

A 02 Jan 2016 Intermediate
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1] 04:44

Hand Structure and How it Functions

Asked by: exomedica

A 26 Dec 2015 Intermediate
Arm Weight - Way to Go or Not? 02:41

Biotensegrity for a Better Hand

Biotensegrity makes every piano approach better and unifies them all

A 08 Dec 2015 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Smith College 2015 04:00

Elastic Release and Extensors

Alan talks about elastic loading, stretch reflex, Kemal Gekic, Taubman

A 23 Nov 2015 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Smith College 2015 06:19

Proactive Hand

We talk about the arch, the thumb, standing up and proactive hand

A 27 Oct 2015 Intermediate
17:06

Slow Hand Exercises Part 3

Part 3

A 26 Jul 2015 Intermediate
18:22

Slow Hand Exercises Part 2

We continue where we left off in part 1

A 03 Jul 2015 Intermediate
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1] 07:59

Which Part of the Hand is Touching the Key?

Asked by: exomedica

A 25 Jun 2015 Intermediate
15:49

Slow Hand Exercises Part 1

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

A 21 Jun 2015 Intermediate
AFF Institute - London, UK 2015 15:11

On hand structure - function and injury Part 4

Last part in this mini series, Alan helps Will stand up and get desired results

A 19 Jun 2015 Intermediate
AFF Institute - London, UK 2015 14:17

On hand structure - function and injury Part 2

Alan is 'rebuilding' Will's hand using Feldenkrais techniques

A 07 Jun 2015 Intermediate