This book, Taking Care of Your self and Your College students: Alexander Method Tips for the Music Instructor, is revealed in a PDF format. It is rather detailed and sensible. It gives you the bodily instruments it’s good to take the boundaries off of your means to show with nice posture, ease, and luxury.
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 method and posture have restricted what he can do on the guitar.
As an Alexander Method trainer and guitarist who has detailed info on posture and method, I’ve been displaying this scholar guitarist tips on how to play the guitar with out put on and tear, and the way to not make straightforward issues arduous, and tips on how to not make arduous passages more durable to play.
Ideally, the good 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 downside limiting the performer, regardless 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 stress spreading via his physique compromises nice method via poor physique alignment and extreme stress coursing via the entire physique.
In different phrases you can not have an important method that’s not finally compromised by poor posture, that doesn’t finally restrict your method and will get you into bodily bother – doing injury to your your physique.
Every part I’ve simply written about is PHYSICAL, which means how effectively you play your instrument or sing is made potential 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 wonderful after I went to my first really licensed Alexander Method Instructor, is that she completely gently dismantled my classical guitar method. Then she confirmed me tips on how to do bodily what wanted to be carried out to play the instrument, with out utilizing esoteric or simply plain incorrect explanations in regards to the mechanics of taking part in.
As I bought used to a way and posture that was bodily clear and legitimate, I in a short time may 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.