Injury

Chapter 1 - Variations on the floating arm

Alan is emphasizing the importance of keeping the elbow low and wrist flexible while playing, particularly for a student recovering from a shoulder injury

Learning difficult piano music

You can or can't learn the notes but what will help you tremendously is putting the musical thought behind it

Does the thumb go under?

One queistion about scales that everybody asks

Left hand scales

The healthy hand needs to lead the injured one

We have work to do on the healthy hand too

Left hand scales

Four entities that will help fingers do their job

Body, arm, wrist and the thumb

Let the thumbs support the dystonic hand

A slow exercise where we allow the thumb to support the injured hand/fingers

Where do we start? Let's stand up the hand first

First things first, propper hand structure is a must

The brain likes well organized patterns

The series recap.

Feel the wholebody

The body is moving and floating freely and the sound is great

Diaphragm is expanding your hand

Mysterious inflation of the hand

Hand is like a lung. When you inflate the hand, you can play and move.

Pronation is coming from increased differentiation of fingers

Hand like a lung exercise

Exploring horizontal movement of the injured hand

Can Feldenkrais help injured hand pronation?

A student broke her hand many years ago and it hasn't healed properly. Now the shoulders and the whole body are tensed up and compensate for the broken arm.

Injury Journal - Diaphragm Hip Joint Shoulder Hand

Latest update from Alan on his injury (April 2019)

Mephisto Waltz Rockets

Alan is attempting to not only avoid the injury but actually heal his shoulder by approaching this segment properly

Play Mephisto Waltz from Injured Point of View

In other words, really dissect the score and learn it in a way that cultivates healing of Alan's injury

Curling without any Tension

There is a way of not dis-empowering the MCP and really making it work

Palm in Contact with the Keys

Alan says he can "sense through" the keyboard better if his palm is down, touching the keys. Notice that he still maintains the hand structure even though his palm is flat

Elastic Thumb Separation

Alan is exploring many concept in this episode and taking us on a journey.

Elastic Thumb Separation

Alan is exploring many concept in this episode and taking us on a journey.

Injury and Dystonia

A bit about injury from Alan's personal experience

A Specific Degree of Muscle Tonus

Alan is talking about specific type of tonus on the fingers complementary to the tonus of the thumb

Piano Kinematics in Action

Alan giving himself a lessons, sort of on Scriabin Op.9

Remove The Bad Neuro Motor Patterns

and focal dystonia might just go away

Taking the Pressure Off the Neck

Cramped shoulders and how Tai Chi helps with that

Well Organized and Integrated Posture

Where the kinematic chain goes from finger tip through the neck into the core

Thumb Corkscrew Action

Creates a moving entity

Curling of Nail Joints

Is curling the nail joints or fingers weakening arches of the hand?

Individuation of the Sound

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

Applying These Ideas to the Repertoire

Scriabin Op.9 No.1

What is the Function

Don't follow the finger down into the key

Alan Fraser Injured Holy Cow

Alan injured his hand. Here is what happened

Resolving a Focal Dystonia - The First Steps in Structural Function Rehabilitation

with comments (Alan)

Hand Arch-Thumb Activation Exercises

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

Focal Dystonia

Alan talks about dystonia and how to avoid/fix it

The Functional Relationship of Thumb and the Finger

Making a tiny adjustments and the thumb being activated

Exercises for Injured Thumb

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

The Movement that Solves the Scales Problem

Intro lesson to the Scales and Injury series

Diagnosis Based on Localisation of Pain-Tension-Fatigue

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