Relaxation
9 videos tagged with this topic.
Pianimals warmup excericises
04:35
Chapter 5 - Sleepy Bear - Lying down again and rolling in a totally relaxed way
Alan shows sleeping bear method that emphasizes lying down your hands and rolling them over the keyboard to play black and white notes with complete relaxation, helping to avoid tension and discomfort during piano practice
The hand arch and the body
03:32
Move the body
You have to move the body and find that sweet spot, not too tense, not too relaxed
Awakening an inert hand
03:36
The cure for tension is action
"If you use relaxation to cure tension you replace one problem with another"
Awakening an inert hand
04:29
Get the stand up action happening before the arm relaxes
Relaxation is present but action needs to happen a bit sooner
Awakening an inert hand
06:26
You are relaxed, good, now do something
Enrich the sensation of the palm to your own advantage
Unstable Equilibrium
05:46
Piano Technique and Jazz Pianists
12:52
Is Over Relaxtion Limiting Your Sound
Structured vs relaxed hand and the sound we get (bone connections
Awareness Through Movement for Pianists
08:02
We are All Victims of the Relaxation School
Alan's lecture/lesson from his recent presentation in England
AFF Institute - Ottawa, January 2015
15:54
Mendelssohn Dueto Op.38 No.6 and on Relaxation Part 1
Alan talks about positive and negatives sides of relaxation in piano playing via Mendelssohn