Understanding the tensegrity structure of the human body, demonstrated using a pelvis model, can improve piano technique...
Alan demonstrates how understanding the compositional structure of Bach's challenging prelude requires arm movement that...
Proper finger posture—keeping fingers 'standing' rather than relaxed or twisted—creates richer harmonies, better color,...
Use the physical to express musically
You can or can't learn the notes but what will help you tremendously is putting the musical thought behind it
Alan shows how a standing hand at the piano leads to all sorts of improvement in sound quality and musicianship
Alan shows that even a simple piece like Fur Elise can be given new expressive life when the hand knows how to walk beau...
By giving it a posture or "acture" as Alan says
And use our ears and play the music
The music is flowing, so should your body
The sound transforms while you stand
Save yourself from additional work and do things the right way right away
Learn music slower but in the end you play musically much quicker
There can't be one without the other
A question about Why Glenn Gould sat so low turns into a great rant about musicianship
Alan talks about musical tension, singing line of live musical thought
What are the mechanisms that translate our musical thought to the keyboard?
This is what it's all really about
Body and the musical content
All this talk about technique, what about musicianship
We are beginning our journey into decoding Schumann
