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5 videos tagged with this topic.

Pianimals warmup excericises 01:16

Chapter 16 - The hand as a bell clapper

Here we go to the other extreme once again, making the hand literally into a high tonused but unweighted mallet

A 12 Feb 2026 Beginner
Pianimals warmup excericises 05:09

Chapter 7 - The bird beak technique for piano playing

Alan demonstrates the bird beak hand position for piano playing, focusing on proper thumb movement, connection between fingers, tonus and incorporating whole-body mechanics to enhance technique and produce a finger-pedaling effect

A 31 Dec 2025 Beginner
Pianimals warmup excericises 03:33

Chapter 3 - Lying down while making the hand into a bird beak,

Increase hand tonus and viability

A 17 Dec 2025 Beginner
Legato 05:07

Maintain tonus throughout the hand

Constantly evolving, empowering tonus of the hand

A 03 Mar 2021 Beginner
Performance Injury - Road to Recovery 06:35

A Specific Degree of Muscle Tonus

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

A 01 Nov 2018 Intermediate