Lessons
Many students and colleagues have come for lessons because of pain related to playing the piano (sometimes other instruments also). When we move well, we can music with facility and great freedom of expression, and the motions we make to play the piano can be health giving.
Often musicians that are suffering because of pain relating to playing their instruments are told that they need to stop playing, because it is their instrument that is causing the problem. They are told that they need to rest and then build up a tolerance for this activity full of harmful repetitive motions.
It is not the piano or violin or drum-set, etc; that is the cause; it is how one moves to play the instrument that is entirely the issue.
Healthy motion can be learned when it is based on an accurate understanding of the anatomical structures involved. Healthy motion is continuous motion that extends from a support (feet on floor, sit-bones on chair) to an extremity. When a finger is in contact with a piano key or finger board, the quality of the contact is critically important.
Significant relief of pain and improvement of technique often occurs in a few lessons.
Often musicians that are suffering because of pain relating to playing their instruments are told that they need to stop playing, because it is their instrument that is causing the problem. They are told that they need to rest and then build up a tolerance for this activity full of harmful repetitive motions.
It is not the piano or violin or drum-set, etc; that is the cause; it is how one moves to play the instrument that is entirely the issue.
Healthy motion can be learned when it is based on an accurate understanding of the anatomical structures involved. Healthy motion is continuous motion that extends from a support (feet on floor, sit-bones on chair) to an extremity. When a finger is in contact with a piano key or finger board, the quality of the contact is critically important.
Significant relief of pain and improvement of technique often occurs in a few lessons.
