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Tonus tales: From sits bones to flickery fingers 07:10

Integrating hand structure with body movement

Students explore how gripping versus floating the hand affects the pelvis, learning that identical external movements can use completely different internal muscular patterns

A 08 Jul 2025 Beginner
Elastically loading the hand arch structure for brilliant octave technique 04:43

Pinky is the strongest finger in the hand

Alan talks about the hypothenar muscles and how can we use them (better)

A 15 Jan 2025 Intermediate
From pianissimo to fortissimo - controlling terraced dynamics powerful orchestration 07:53

Tense muscles sense nothing

Release the pelvis for the muscles to sense

A 18 Dec 2024 Beginner
Dystonia Exercises - Scale Patterns 09:45

Keep the feeling of structural security

We are retraining the unjured hand and trying to activate certain muscles

A 08 Nov 2024 Intermediate
Activate the fingers to make the piano sing 10:41

Instantaneous muscular explosion and good arm flow

We keep exploring the sound we want to make

A 19 Apr 2024 Intermediate
The hand arch and the body 02:38

This is how you play the piano musically

Save yourself from additional work and do things the right way right away

A 20 Sep 2022 Beginner
Awakening an inert hand

So many pianists play from the bottom two joins

and neglect the metacarpals

A 17 Aug 2022 Beginner
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
07:35

Flexors, Extensors, Interossei and the Bigger Picture

A very informative bit on our playing aparathus

A 06 Dec 2019 Beginner
05:23

Forearm Muscles

Forearm muscles and their role in our functional hand

A 03 Dec 2019 Beginner
Biotensegrity: A New View Of Anatomy And Its Implications For Piano Technique 06:24

Compression and Tension Elements

So what we are looking for is good kind of muscular tonus not plain old bad kind of tension

A 29 Mar 2019 Intermediate
Weight Unsuited to Moving a Lever 04:56

Bones Take Over the Work of the Muscles

Very simple idea, but how often do we really practice it?

A 12 Sep 2018 Intermediate
Unstable Equilibrium 04:43

Should You go to the Gym

and build muscle so you can play the piano?

A 09 Aug 2018 Intermediate
Unstable Equilibrium 03:47

What is Muscle Tonus

Many muscles in the hand need to be developed to make the hand functional

A 07 Aug 2018 Beginner
The Antigravity Function and Biotensegrity 05:25

How do We Manage this Structure

One fundamental error in how we understand human locomotion was that it's all done with muscle contraction

A 21 Jul 2017 Intermediate
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 03:03

Muscular Engagement

Elasticity, tonus, muscles, bones, skeleton

A 15 Oct 2016 Intermediate
Different Arm Use in Forte and Piano 05:09

Forte vs Piano

How do we play forte and what muscles engage while playing piano

A 09 Oct 2016 Intermediate
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1] 04:22

Scapular Muscles

Asked by: Plaine

A 25 Sep 2016 Intermediate
Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 1] 01:45

Contracted Triceps and Scales

Asked by: Johannes

A 30 Aug 2016 Intermediate
All About The Thumb 05:47

The Thumb Neutrality

Why do we use the thumb? A little bit of history and anatomy

A 12 Apr 2016 Intermediate
AFF Institute - Ottawa 2015 05:21

Use Your Hand Muscles and Stand

How to stand and why is it important?

A 05 Jan 2016 Intermediate