This book, An Alexander Approach Strategy to Harp Approach, is printed in a PDF format. It is rather detailed and sensible, and it gives you the bodily instruments you should take the bounds off of your skill to create the correct harp approach you need with out sacrificing your physique.
This book can also be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
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PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OR SINGING ARE PURELY PHYSICAL ACTS.
What do I imply?
I’m working with a guitarist proper now who’s fairly good, however a lot of his approach and posture have restricted what he can do on the guitar.
As an Alexander Approach trainer and guitarist who has detailed data on posture and approach, I’ve been displaying this pupil guitarist how you can play the guitar with out put on and tear, and the way to not make straightforward issues laborious, and how you can not make laborious passages tougher to play.
Ideally, the nice musical performer is aware of what she needs to do within the interpretation of a bit, and that is pushed by nice inspiration.
BUT WHAT IF THE PERFORMER CANNOT DO THIS ON HIS INSTRUMENT OR IN SINGING, BECAUSE OF POOR POSTURE AND LIMITING TECHNIQUE?
THIS is a purely bodily drawback limiting the performer, irrespective of how grand the interpretation is in his head.
GREAT TECHNIQUE BACKED UP WITH POOR POSTURE LIMITS A PERFORMER’S ABILITY TO PLAY OR SING AT HER GREATEST POTENTIAL.
Why?
If the performer hunkers down very time he performs, then the strain spreading by his physique compromises nice approach by poor physique alignment and extreme pressure coursing by the entire physique.
In different phrases you can not have an incredible approach that’s not ultimately compromised by poor posture, that doesn’t ultimately restrict your approach and will get you into bodily bother – doing injury to your your physique.
Every thing I’ve simply written about is PHYSICAL, which means how properly you play your instrument or sing is made doable by the purely bodily act of the way you play your instrument or sing.
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE DOES AN EXTRAORDINARY THING. IT MAKES YOU AWARE THAT MAKING MUSIC IS A PURELY PHYSICAL ACT OF PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT OR SINGING, AND AT THE SAME TIME REMOVES THE EXCESSIVE PHYSICAL WORK OF A POOR POSTURE AND POOR TECHNIQUE IN PRACTICING OR PERFORMING.
What I discovered so superb after I went to my first really licensed Alexander Approach Instructor, is that she completely gently dismantled my classical guitar approach. Then she confirmed me how you can do bodily what wanted to be finished to play the instrument, with out utilizing esoteric or simply plain mistaken explanations concerning the mechanics of taking part in.
As I received used to a way and posture that was bodily clear and legitimate, I in a short time might start to do what the music was asking of me, since I now performed the piece athletically precisely.
AS A PERFORMING MUSICIAN, RUN TO A CERTIFIED ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE TEACHER, AND LEARN HOW YOUR INSTRUMENT COULD REALLY PHYSICALLY BE PLAYED OR HOW YOU COULD SING. THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO ON YOUR INSTRUMENT WHAT YOU HEAR IN YOUR HEAD.