The Craft of Piano Playing

A New Approach to Piano Technique

Ranked #89 in Piano

This work presents a comprehensive approach to piano technique with a series of exercises designed to help the reader put this approach into practice. Alan Fraser has combined his extensive concert pedagogical experience, his long-standing collaboration with the virtuoso Kemal Gekich and his professional training in Feldenkrais Method to create this innovative technique. Using numerous musical examples and sketches he shows how many common movement habits at the keyboard are counterproductive and provides a new way of manipulating the skeletal frame of the hand to produce sonic results from... more

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