A Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing
As you know, Alan Fraser completed his book, The Craft of Piano Playing in 2003 and released the DVD in 2006. We are pleased to announce that he has now completed A Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing. This small 60-page book contains section summaries, lists of key themes, and sample exam questions that test the reader/viewer's knowledge in a practical way. The Study Guide links material from the book and DVD to empower the student's learning experience and make mastery of Alan Fraser's potent new approach to piano technique at once both congenial and effective.
Table of Contents - A Study Guide to The Craf of Piano Playing
Preface 6
Table of Contents 10
Week 1: Introduction to Some Key Concepts 14
Week 2: Piano Technique and Movement 18
Week 3: Legato: The Physical Foundation of Piano Technique 22
Week 4: The Special Role of the Thumb 26
Week 5: Octaves and Chords 30
Week 6: The Role of the Arm 34
Week 7: Rotation 38
Week 8: Natural Finger Shape & Some Other Touch Strategies 40
Week 9: Musical Entasis – Rhythm 44
Week 10: Musical Entasis – Phrasing 48
Week 11: Musical Entasis – Orchestration; Thematic Review 52
Week 12: Maximal Articulation 56
Week 13: Emotional & Spiritual Content in Piano Playing 60
Answers to Questions (Selected) 64
Bibliography 66
The Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing sets out a 13- week study plan providing a brief summary of the material to be covered in each one-week period, plus a list of key themes, sample questions andrelated reading material. The Study Guide will be an ideal aid to pianopedagogy students using The Craft of Piano Playing as a textbook, and will also be a useful tool for independent students of the piano.
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Canadian pianist Alan Fraser has created a new approach to piano technique that accesses the innate structure and function of the human hand to replace tension and over-relaxation with effective hand activation. His book and DVD, The Craft of Piano Playing, presents this new approach in detail, with an extensive series of exercise to align one's skeleton, enrich one's sound, increase virtuosity, and eliminate the danger of injury before it ever arises.
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