This book, The Alexander Method Utilized to the Method and Posture of 29 Western Musical Devices, is revealed in a PDF format. It’s a detailed introduction to and utility of the rules of the Alexander Method to 29 of essentially the most performed devices within the symphonies, chamber music teams, and as solo devices from the Western tradition, classical and different kinds. Included within the 29 are singing and conducting.
This book can also be on the market on all AMAZON web sites in a KINDLE format.
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WHEN STRIVING FOR IMPROVEMENT ON A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OR IN A SPORT, THERE IS ALWAYS THE DANGER OF IMBALANCE, OF MAKING WHAT YOU’RE STRIVING FOR IMPOSSSIBLE.
Setting bodily objectives you wish to attain in a sport or on an instrument or in singing should be seen as attainable. If a aim is unattainable, you then’re caught in striving to do the unattainable/extraordinary, and you can’t not damage your self within the strategy of striving for greatness.
I’m not speaking about decreasing your requirements. I’m asking you to do what’s extraordinary with out sacrificing your thoughts and your physique.
A golf aim is par or higher in an 18 gap golf sport
A musical aim is taking part in or singing quick scales at tempo with ease and precisely.
These are each excessive requirements in music and sports activities.
What’s to maintain these objectives from ALWAYS being sooner or later, at all times unattainable? Ought to the usual in sports activities and music ALWAYS be the unattainable?
What do I imply?
THE HIGH GOALS THE ATHLETE OR THE MUSICIAN SETS FOR HIM OF HER-SELF SHOULD ALWAYS BE POSSIBLE.
Once more, this doesn’t imply decreasing the usual you set for your self, however TO NOT SET A GOAL, THINKING IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD, IS NOT POSSIBLE! That is actually harsh.
What do I imply?
Steps must be set and brought to achieve the lofty aim.
First, after setting a troublesome aim, you wish to be very clear to your self it’s attainable/doable. I perceive a complete lot of athletes and musicians imagine that setting an unattainable aim is nice, and possibly even heroic, nevertheless it units you up for by no means being glad, which will also be seen as heroic.
THE EMOTIONAL RESULT OF BELIEVING YOUR GOAL IS IMPOSSIBLE, WHETHER IT IS OR NOT, IS UNHAPPINESS, WHICH YOU HAVE TO SUPRESS TO STAY MOTIVATED.
In a sport or a musical instrument, it’s the physique which units the bounds, particularly if the aim set by your thoughts is lofty.
What do I imply?
When you inform your physique to hit the golf ball within the gap, or the physique to play or sing the music sooner, and it might’t, then what you need within the ideas is thwarted by the flawed physique.
Or is the physique flawed, given the aim is POSSIBLE?
What if it isn’t the physique that’s flawed, it’s your approach! I assume the physique may give you what you ask, when you give the physique the correct instruments, the correct approach, and the doable bodily aim.
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE CAN GIVE YOU THESE TOOLS.
The Alexander Method instructor appears to be like at your golf approach or your instrument’s approach, and step-by-step, eliminates all the unhealthy striving straining habits that make the golfer or the musician inaccurate or not capable of make music at tempo.
If the golfer can keep at or under par, and the musician can carry out precisely at tempo with an exquisite sound, then I assume the objectives have been met. Then the athlete and the musician can maintain refining their approach, and get higher and higher with open ended objectives, that deal with themselves.