Honing the Pianistic Self-Image: Skeletal-Based Piano Technique

This sequel to Canadian pianist Alan Fraser's The Craft of Piano Playing presents his latest insights and exercises linking optimal hand organisation with use of the whole body. Where The Craft of Piano Playing focused on the foundational security of the hand's innate structure and function, Honing the Pianistic Self-Image shows you how to take that structure into a new, sophisticated state unstable equilibrium to gain an even finer control over the colours and emotion you produce at the piano. Delving into the complex mysteries of the human hand as it relates to the keyboard with a new dimension of sensitivity and subtlety, this volume presents an extensive series of exercises to align one s skeleton, enrich one s sound, increase virtuosity, and eliminate the danger of injury before it ever arises.