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Silent Piano Practicing

Ever practiced on a table top, or electric piano? Is it really beneficial or not?

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Dec 13, 2019

Alan Fraser

Playing on an electric keyboard

Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]

Episode 1 - Elastic Quality 01:48

Episode 2 - Playing Pianissimo 10:27

Episode 3 - Putting the Hands Inside the Piano 05:53

Episode 4 - Walking Forwards vs Walking on the Spot 02:23

Episode 5 - Playing Fast Passages and Skeletal Alignment 03:28

Episode 6 - Forte Octaves 08:56

Episode 7 - Leaps and Accuracy in Piano Technique 05:40

Episode 8 - Maintaining the Hand Structure and Finger Independence 08:32

Episode 9 - Muscles and Skeleton Carrying the Arm 02:06

Episode 10 - Weak Fifth Finger 03:39

Episode 11 - Adjusting Students Playing Apparatus During the Lesson 07:18

Episode 12 - Alan - The Background 05:57

Episode 13 - What is the Arm-Thumb? 03:36

Episode 14 - The Basis of Elasticity 04:22

Episode 15 - Strong Fifth Finger 03:01

Episode 16 - Arrau and Rubinstein Piano Technique 05:24

Episode 17 - How Do You Memorize a Piece of Music 04:08

Episode 18 - Feel the Melody Pulsing 02:27

Episode 19 - Keep the Same Fingering 01:30

Episode 20 - The Difficult Art of Orchestration 02:51

Episode 21 - Is the Word Differentiation a Feldenkrais Term 01:50

Episode 22 - When I play right hand forte my left hand plays loudly too 08:36

Episode 23 - Distribute the Weight Between Upper Arm and Fingers 07:50

Episode 24 - Structure Solidification is to be Avoided 03:21

Episode 25 - Elastically Loading the Thumb and Uncurling the Claw 02:46

Episode 26 - How do I play Double Notes and Chords More Evenly 03:43

Episode 27 - Applying the Principle of Reversibility 01:07

Episode 28 - What do You Think of Lucas Debargue 01:33

Episode 29 - Playing on Unfamiliar Pianos 03:59

Episode 30 - One Boned or Segmented Multi Joint Thumb 02:37

Episode 31 - What is the Role of the MCP Joints in Bone Rope Technique 00:57

Episode 32 - What do you think about Kissin 02:40

Episode 33 - Feldenkrais and Piano - But Why? 01:46

Episode 34 - Status of Pianimals 01:08

Episode 35 - Useful Bird Beak Exercise 03:36

Episode 36 - Silent Piano Practicing 05:03

Episode 37 - Let's Talk About the Wrist 10:39

Episode 38 - How do we actually walk? 06:09

Episode 39 - Better physical organisation for better musical expression 02:16

Episode 40 - The most difficult piano piece you have ever played 00:59

Episode 41 - What do you think of Emma Leiuman? 00:17

Episode 42 - How long until the pianistic breakthrough? 05:48

Episode 43 - Fast octaves 05:39

Episode 44 - Developing reflexes for playing octaves 05:30

Episode 45 - The thumb should not invert 05:56

Episode 46 - Is it possible to play with collapseed mcp joint but still sound good? 04:21

Episode 47 - To what degree does the hand extend and contract during arpeggios? 03:49

Episode 48 - The faster the speed, the more efficient movements have to be 01:36

Episode 49 - Thumb capability 06:35

Episode 50 - Do the big movements to wake up your reflexes 02:04

Episode 51 - The great deal of robust positive standing energy 04:17

Episode 52 - Float the arm 02:10

Episode 53 - Parasitic movements 05:04

Episode 54 - Metacarpal function of the thumb 07:33

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Q&A with Alan Fraser [Season 2]