Pianimals Study Group X

Pianimals Online Study Group Bi-Weekly Sessions

SERIES X: AUTUMN 2025 starting SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20

The Pianimals study group is for those less lazy than Sleepy Bear (pictured below). Whether or not you have completed the Pianimals Online Institute if you want to hone this approach furhter, you are welome to sign up for the Pianimals Online Study Group, an Awareness Through Piano Movement/research group focused on one study piece per session. Come and join us by signing up below.

Or, to get a better idea of the form and content of these sessions, visit our Online Study Group Recordings page that lists compositions studied in past iterations of the group. There you can purchase recordings of past series, or return here to sign up for the current series now in session.

• Group members prepare in advance by studyinga composition, developing a list of possible Pianimals strategies that could address the technical and interpretative issues.
• Participants and particularly the designated performer present their conclusions.
• The designated performer plays the piece.
• Participants consider the issues raised by the discussion and the performance.
• Alan works with the performer applying the ideas of Pianimals and Piano Somatics to the interpretation.
• Alan creates an Awareness Through Piano Movement (ATPM) lesson that grows out of the performance issues raised in the study session.
• Closing discussion.

Many participants love being able to mute their microphones and practice the solutions being presented in real time. It's a new, effective way of delving into the nuts & bolts of the Pianimals language and learning to apply it in practical teaching situations.

90-minute format:

• The "guinea pig" participant plays the study piece receiving "bullet-style" tips on how to improve the performance by applying the Pianimals ideas.
• Fraser then creates a half hour ATPM that incorporates the techniques discussed in the lesson.

Open to All Interested Pianists

Are you hesitant to attend? Feel you are not advanced enough? Not well-enough prepared? Don't worry; Alan welcomes all, no matter what your ability, no matter what the state of your program. The Institute really is open to all interested pianists:

• students who wish to improve their sound and agility
• adult amateurs who wish to feel more in command of the instrument
• teachers who want new ways of teaching technique to their students
• professionals who wish to hone their skills to the highest possible level.

There is no limit to improvement!

Schedule

Due to Alan's scheduling commitments, this autumn we will not always be able to follow the usual bi-weekly pattern. Please check these dates and register for as many of them as you can make... and let us know when you would like to be the "guinea pig."

DATE/PRESENTER

STUDY PIECE(S)

Relevant Exercises

ATPM

Sept 20
Christine T

Bach: Aria from the Goldberg Variations

Tai Chi Walking for LH polyphony; RH mm. 15-15, 23-4 Skating Sloth
Rotating Rattlesnake
Barmy Bunnies m. 12 Floating Flamingo RH M.11; LH mm. 28ff Lipizzaner Leaping grace notes starting on thumb Pogo stick, Cat Scratch for articulation Orangathumb RH mm. 29 ff

The whole body feel of Tai Chi Walking for LH multiple contrapuntal strands; Floating Flamingo for ephemeral RH singing and decorating

Oct 4
Sinden M

Bartok Roumanian Dances #1, 2, 4 & 6

TBD

Use Movement to Make Music Analog not Digital

Oct 11
Kathleen

Tchaikovsky Sweet Dreams Album for the Young Op. 39 No. 21

How to Pedal

Effective Pedalling Through Releasing the Hip Joint and Rocking the Pelvis

Oct 25Astrid

Edna Mae Burnham: A Dozen a Day Book 2 Group I

Number 2: Floating Flamingo, Forte Flying Fox, Kangaroo Chords, Chuckling Chicken, a slow Barmy Bunnies, Oranguthumb Number 3: Floating FLamingo Rotating Rattlesnake
Number 4: Entire Thumb Section; Chuckling Chicken; Bonging Bells
Number 10: Oranguthumb; Yawning Alligator; Teetering Toucan; Rotating Rattlesnake; Tai Chi Walking; Barmy Bunnies.

Teetering Toucan for the Whole Body

Nov 15Astrid

Edna Mae Burnham: A Dozen a Day Book 2 Group III

Nmber 1: Lazy Lion; Kangaroo Chords; Floating Flamingo
Number 2 Rolling: Fox Fandango; Teetering Toucan; Swinging Song; Oranguthumb
Number 5 Skipping: Skating Sloth, Quiet Crocodile; Oranguthumb, Lipizzaner Leaping, Slinky Snail, Sauntering Sandpiper
Number 8 Somersaults: Barmy Bunnies, Swinging Song; Rotating Rattlesnake

Play Arpeggios with the Whole Self

Nov 29
Christine T.

Debussy: The Little Shepherd/Jimbo's Lullaby

Little Shepherd: Sleepy Bear (remedial) Teetering Toucan (prep) Floating Flamingo (play) Then "Bunnify" it with Barmy Bunnies end m. 1: Forte Flying Fox grace notes: Snapping Scale LH m. 5, 10: Skating Sloth m. 8: Tai Chi Empty Step, Sauntering Sandpiper, Strolling Stork Jimbo: m. 1: Skating Sloth, Teetering Toucan m. 39: Sauntering Sandpiper m. 9, 63: Tai Chi Walking

Link a Centered, Balanced Elbow to all the other parts

Dec 6
Siri

Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin

Opening: Amorphous Amoeba (remedial); Teetering Toucan (prep); Amorphous Amoeba (play) Big chords: Swamp Monster Polyphony: Tai Chi Walking m 14: Sleepy Bear (prep), Floating Flamingo thumb under: Snapping Scale m 24: Palming learning notes: palming (prep); standing up gradually(remedial); Floating Flamingo (playing)

Link Three Types of Chords to the Free Pelvis - Amorphous Amoeba, Swamp Monster & chord version of Bonging Bells of Big Ben

Dec 20Sinden

Debussy: Sarabande from Pour le piano

m. 2 rolling chords Barmy Bunnies, Lippizzaner Leapig, Teetering TOucan, Stretching Spider
Amorphous Amoebaon chord;
Floating Flamigo betwwen.
8ves at end: horizontalFloating Flamingo

Use Floating Flamingo and Amorphous Amoeba for sumptuous, sensitive chord playing

Time Zone Adjustment

• Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Finland: start time 17:00.
• United Kingdom: start time 15:00.
• Brazil, Argentina: start time 11:00.
• Note: on November 2nd only, North Americans start one hour later.
• N. America East Coast: start time 10:00. (Atlantic Canada 11:00).
• N. America Central: start time 9:00.
• N. America Mountain: start time 8:00.
• N. America Pacific: start time 7:00.

All sessions are recorded so that participants from Australasia may watch without burning the midnight oil.

On March 23rd, North American participants will have an extra hour of sleep, because the US and Canada will already be on Daylight Savings, whereas Europe "springs forward" only the following day.

Register

Fees & Registration

To join the study group, pay for as many weeks as you want. Session recordings are sent to all participants at no extra cost: only purchase them if you know in advance you will not be able to attend.

The payment table has links to our retail partner, Stripe.com where you can make a secure credit card payment.

Recordings

Purchase Recordings of Past Study Group Series

The Study Group has been meeting regularly now for several years. Recordings for each past 8-week series are available as a tutorial to be reviewed online. Purchase the series that interests you from the table below, or for a more detailed description of each series, visit the Pianimals Online Study Group Recordings page and make your purchase from there.

Pianotechnique.org: the Pianist's Netflix

When accessing video recordings, if you are not an active member at PianoTechniqe.org, you must first subscribe to create an account. PianoTechnique.org is run more or less on the Netflix model. Your initial subscription fee gives you automatic access to our main library with 1300+ lesson videos, over 85 tutorial series curated especially for pianotechnique.org, and your own personal library where all your lesson videos can be gathered in one place - making the study process even more convenient and rewarding. Access to all this is included in the initial pt.org subscription fee, but access to certain specific workshops does require a small surcharge.

DISCOUNTS

We offer discounts to

• students
• senior citizens 65 & over
• those in reduced financial circumstances.

Those of you who qualify for a discount should contact IvoIvona Despotovich to enquire about these discounted registration fees.

Topics

Repertoire to Be Covered

Up until now, participants have volunteered compositions more or less from the standard repertoire. We would like to make a concerted effort to focus on intermediate level pieces, the ones you often teach your pupils. To this end we have created a list of possible compositions to choose from when you are volunteering to be a "guinea pig."

We do not limit proposals to this list, but present it to suggest the type of repertoire for which we are looking. Select one or several pieces from the list below, or offer something in a similar vein.

• Bach: C minor prelude from the Little Preludes; something from the Anna Magdalena Bach book; C major prelude WTC I
• CPE Bach: Solfeggio in C minor
• Bartok: Mikrokosmos, especially #69 (The chord study from book 3)
• Beethoven: Sonatas Op.49 #1 & #2
• Burgmüller: Etudes, Op. 100, especially #1 Candour, #2 Arabesque, #5 Innocence, #12 Farewell, #15 Ballade, etc.
• Clementi: Sonatinas, Op. 36
• Cramer: Etudes, Opp. 30 & 40
• Czerny: The School of Velocity, Op. 299 or other etudes
• Debussy: 1er Arabesque, Le Petit Negre, Golliwog's Cakewalk, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, The Little Shepherd
• Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Opuses 12, 38, 43, 47, 54, 57, 62, 65, 68 & 71... for instance Op. 71, #3 The Puck, etc.
• Kabalevsky: 30 Pieces for Children, Op.27; 24 Pieces for Children, Op. 39 (especially Ivan Sings or Toccatina); Sonatina in C
• Kuhlau: Sonatinas
• Mendelssohn: Venetian Boat Songs in F# minor and G minor
• Mozart: Sonata in C Major, KV 545 esp. the 2nd movement
• Schubert: Impromptus
• Schumann: Album for the Young, Op. 68
• Tschaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op .39
• Royal Conservatory Exam Books: anything from the first 8 grades.
• Hours with the Masters: anything from the first six books

Each session applies the Pianimals strategies to a piece from the repertoire to imrpove both technique and musicianship.

Before & After the Institute

Information Sheet & Followup Questionnaire

We'd like to get to know you better. After registration, please come back to fill out this PARTICIPANT INFORMATION FORM. Remember to note in the comments section which weeks you will be attending.

After you've completed your institute, we'd like to keep in touch. Please return here to fill out the INSTITUTE FOLLOWUP QUESTIONNAIRE. This helps you and us to evaluate your experience, plan your ongoing regime for further pianistic advances, and fine-tune the institute structure to better meet your needs.

Contact

About Us - Contact

ALAN FRASER

Canadian pianist Alan Fraser gives master classes and recitals worldwide and conducts ongoing research and refinement on the ideas put forth in his books:

• The Craft of Piano Playing (also in DVD),
• Honing the Pianistic Self-Image
• All Thumbs: Well-Coordinated Piano Technique
• Pianimals: 28 Feldenkrais Lessons for the Beginning Pianist's Hand
• Skeletal Wisdom: Mind & Body Reunited in the Feldenkrais Method
• Play the Piano with Your Whole Self

He is at work on several new volumes. Visit here for more on Alan Fraser. If you have questions about your participation in the institute and would like to address them directly to Alan Fraser, please feel free to send him an email.

Concordance

Pianimals Study Group Repertoire/Exercise Concordance

Our secretary has been far less lazy than Sleepy Bear, diligently notating which Pianimals exercises we decide apply best to each of the pieces we study. We are finally creating a list of these. The table below charts our voyage of discovery - it is still in development, so if you remember what we came up with at some past session, please do not hesitate to send us an email about it.

Date/Presenter

Composition

Relevant Exercises

ATPM

Alejandra

Bach: C minor Prelude, WTC Book I BWV847

Cristina F.

Bach: D major Prelude & Fugue, WTC I

Grace

Bach: Ab+ major Prelude & Fugue WTC I

Hans

Beethoven: Bagatelle in G minor, Op. 119

Siri

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata 1st mvt

Silvia

Brahms: Ballade Op 10 #1 in D minor

Feb 18 2023Christine T.

Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata, 2nd mvt.

March 18 2023Grace

Matteo Albeniz: Sonata in D

April 15 2023Hans

Bach 3-Part Inventions #11 & #12

2023-04-19Hans

Bach: Sinfonia (Three-Part Invention) #11

Termite Temerity Teetering Toucan ("rope fingers") Skating Sloth Singing Stork (l.h. m. 9) Floppy Flamingo

"Baroque Style"

2023-04-19Hans

Bach: Sinfonia (Three-Part Invention) #12

Singing Stork, Strolling Stork Sauntering Sandpiper Rotating Rattlesnake Barmy Bunnies Skating Sloth (l.h.)

"Baroque Style"

2023-04-01Kathleen

Brahms: Waltz in A flat

Skating Sloth Floating Flamingo LH m. 9 Barmy Bunnies & Rotating Rattlesnake M. 36 Tai Chi Strolling Stork, Singing Stork

Sensitize the Wrist in Kangaroo Chords

April 29 2023 Christine T

Brahms: Intermezzo in A minor Op. 76 #7

April 1 2023Kathleen

Brahms: Waltz in A flat

Date ?Christine T

Burgmuller Tarantella Op 100 #20

- Barmy Bunnies, Kangaroo Chords, Thumb Exeercises, Floating Flamingo - Teetering Toucan (middle section) - Sauntering Sandpiper, Tai Chi Walking (l. h. triplets)

Date ?Karolinka

Chopin: Waltz in C# minor, Op. 64 #2

Date ?Rene

Chopin: Waltz in E minor, op. posth. B. 56

March 4 2023Siri

Clementi: Op 36, #4

2023-05-13Siri

Heller: A Curious Story, Op 138 #9

RH: Yawning Alligator - Floating Flamingo - Chuckling Chicken - Snapping Scale LH m. 17 Skating Sloth LH m. 21: Kangaroo Chords - Teetering Toucan to thumb

Teetering Toucan expanded to arpeggio

May 13 2023Siri

Heller: A Curious Story, Op 138 #9 Heller: Etude in A flat major, Op. 47 #23

2023-05-13Siri

Heller: Etude in A flat major, Op. 47 #23

- Teetering Toucan - Bonging Bells RH thumb: Skating Sloth plus - OrangaThumb

Teetering Toucan expanded to arpeggio

May 27 2023Grace

MacDowell:To a Water Lily, Op 51 #3 An Old Love Story, Op 61 #1

TBD

Grace

Kabalevsky: Short Pieces, Op. 27 #3 — Etude in A minor #12 — Toccatina #13 — A Little Joke #20 — A Short Story

STUDY GROUP VI - SEPT-DEC 2023

Christine T

Burgmüller: Etudes, Op. 100 #2 Arabesque #12 Farewell #15 Ballade #5 Innocence)

Oct 7 2023Christine T

Burgmüller: Tarantella, Op. 100 #20

Oct 28Kathleen

Pythagoras: The Scale of E Major

The thumb in scales: - a slinky 'Pacman' move between thumb and hand- activates the 1st dorsal interosseous while keeping it soft, almost 'ampty'

Nov 4Christine T

Chopin: Prelude Op.28 #4 e-minor Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 #6 b-minor

e- l.h.: Floating Flamingo (chords) Kangaroo Chords (thumb) Skating Sloth (chords) Rocking the Body e- r.h.: Sauntering Sandpiper Teetering Toucan b- r.h.: Tai Chi Empty Step (orchestration) b- l.h.: Barmy Bunnies Rock the body

- Enhance Skating Sloth, Floating Flamingo for e minor chords - Enhanced Teetering Toucan for e minor melody - Ultra-Slow Motion Barmy Bunnies for b minor melody

Nov 11Alejandra

Manuel Ponce: Intermezzo

- Whole Body (l.h. page 1) - Floating Flamingo (page 2 r.h.) - Possums, Mozart Monkeys, Teetering Toucan - OranguThumb (l.h.) - Stretching Spider (glide palm Barmy Bunnies, FLoating FLamingo. Chuckling Chicken (cadenza)

Nov 25Astrid L

Berkovich: Paganini Variations (var. 7)

Floating Flamingo Floppy Flamingo Kangaroo Chords Forte Flying Fox Tamara Tiger (leaping springboard) Skating Sloth (horizontality) Rocking the Body Cockatoo Carol Barmy Bunnies for rippled l.h. chords at end

8ves: Growing and 'disintegrating' the hand arch to bring 8ves to life

Dec 2Astrid L

Mozart: Viennese Sonatina C dur K439b

Dec 9Christine O

Debussy: Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum

Barmy Bunnies + Teetering Toucan Chuckling Chicken (r.h.) Most Beautiful Sound Thumbs: 6 OranguThumb, 10 Alligator Yawn, 11 Thumb Troll Tromp Lazy Lion (l.h. low Bb) Pogo Stick (l.h. coda)

Bringing the thumb to life in an empty, skeletal way: internalizng the extrenal hand movements of Debussy's Dr. Gradus

Dec 16Grace A

Maykapar: Toccatina Op 8, #1

Barmy Bunnies r.h. Chuckling Chicken both hands Tightrope Walker Pogo Stick Oranguthumb FLoating Flamingo l.h. opening

Combining Chuckling Chicken and Barmy Bunnies; sensing the participation of the sitz bone muscles

STUDY GROUP VII- SPRING 2024

March 23 2024Christine T

Tchaikowski The Seasons op 37 March and April

March, lh: Skating Sloth,Cockatoo Carol, Tai Chi walking March, rh: Floating Flamingo,Rotating Rattlesnake, Teetering Toucan, Barmy Bunnies April, lh: Skating Sloth,Kangaroo Chords (chords; leaps),Strolling Stork, Tai Chi walking April, rh: Barmy Bunnies, Oranguthumb

A slow motion, body-connected version of Kangaroo Chords

April 13Sinden M.

MompouPayysages

- Kangaroo Chords (leaping) - Sleepy Bear, Skating Sloth (memory) - Chuckling Chicken (low bass note) - Stretching Spider & Flying Fox

Sober Lateral Forearm movements

April 20Grace

Clementi Sonatina Op. 38, #2

- OrangaThumb, Kangaroo Chords (Alberti Bass) - RockaBye, Barmy Bunnies (m. 68) - Prancing Stallion Thumb Troll Tromp (16th note passages, thumb) - Teetering Toucan, Flopping Flamingo, Elegant Alionus (control of cadences) - Snapping Scale, Barmy Bunnies, OrangaThumb, Yawning Alligator (scales)

Refine Vertical Wrist Movements, Connect Them to the Forearm - More Extension than Flexion

May 4Kathleen

Schumann Der Dichter Spricht

- Floating Flamingo, Fox Fandango (smooth chords) - Sauntering Sandpiper (m. 10 Tightrope Walker (end of the cadenza)

Three Strategies to Join Chords Smoothly

May 25

FraserRepeated Note Exercises

TBD

TBD

June 8Christine O.

Bach G+ prelude, WTC I

TBD

July 6Hans Van Ham

SchubertMoment Musicale #1

TBD

STUDY GROUP VIII ? - AUTUMN 2024 ?

Maria

Mendelssohn: Frühlingslied op.62 n.6 (SWW)

Robert

Mendelssohn: Venetian Boat Song in F# minor

Sylvia

Mozart: Sonata in B flat major, K570 - 1st mvt.

Christine T

Mozart: D-minor Fantasie

Christine T

Mussorgsky: A Tear

Kathleen

Michael Nyman: The Heart Asks Pleasure First

Grace

Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives #10, Op. 22

Christine O

Debussy: 1er Arabesque

Alejandra

Bach: Little D minor prelude

Hans

Grieg: Lyric Piece, Op. 57 #2 - Gade

Sinden

Einaud: Elegy for the Arctic

Silvia

Schumann: Op.68 (Mignon, May, Sweet May!)

Kathleen

Czerny: Etudes Op. 139, #75 (Gm) and #76 (Bm)

Kathleen

Mozart: A major Sonata, K331, 1st mvt, theme & Var. 4

Siri

Mozart: A major Sonata, K331, 1st mvt.

Grace

Burgmüller Etudes: "The Pearls," Op. 109, #2 Chordal etude in D minor, Op. 45, #15

Christine T

Stephen Heller: L’Avalanche Op. 45 #2 Kabalevsky: Etude in a minor Op. 27 #3

Siri

Schumann: Traumerei

Kathleen

Chopin: Prelude in Db major

Christine O

Debussy: Golliwog's Cakewalk Little Shepherd

Grace

Kabalevsky: Morning Exercises Op.3/86, #2 Drummer Op 14, #1

October 12Christine O.

Bach: F major Invention

TBD

Enhance Whole Body Sitting & Finger Standing

October 26Grace Fuerst

Bach: F#+ Prelude and/or Fugue WTCI

Skating Sloth Teetering Toucan Rotating Rattlesnake Strolling Stork Flamingo Flop Snapping Scale

Use Arm and Body to Refine Finger Curvature

November 2Christine T. & Astrid L.

Brahms: Hungarian Dance #5 in F# minor

Fox Fandango for improved ensemble Teetering Toucan for both healthy standing and phrasing Forte Flying Fox for standing Floppy Flamingo for standing in 8ves Barmy Bunnies simplified for the straight back arm movement that releases arpeggio movement. Lipizzaner Leaping: open thumb to improve arpeggios

Whole Body Evenness in Arpeggios

November 9Christine O.

Mendelssohn: F# minor Venetian Boat Song

LEFT HAND: swivelliing and palmingBegin with left elbow to the outsideTeetering Toucan to lean towards thumb Floppy Flamingo for supinationRIGHT HAND: Skating Sloth for legato singingSwinging Song for legato singingFloating Flamingo for trills Squirming Worm for 1-1-1 legato fingering

Free Singing Legato and Orchestration: use Tightrope Walking and Floating Flamingo

December 14Christine T.

Bach: F minor Prelude WTC II

TBD

TBD

January 4 2025Grace

Courtney: Catalan Carol for the Birds

Tai Chi walking for Melody + Chords Barmy Bunnies for m1 triplets and rolled chords Teetering Toucan for the melody which already rocking Rotating Rattlesnake for freely sounding melodic notes in triplets.

The Feet are Another Pair of Sitz Bones

January 11Astrid L.

Gurlitt: Theme & Variations

TBD

TBD

February 8 2025Kathleen

Clementi: C major Sonatina Op 36 #1

Teetering Toucan for melodic shaping Barmy Bunnies for lightness in passagework Forte Flying Fox for a healthy loud dynamic Fox Fandango for melodic shaping forwrad & back Swinging Song for melodic shaping side to side Skating Sloth for a smooth melody in the Andante Yawning Alligator for LH Alberti basses

Integrate Smooth LH broken triads: Combining Amorphous Amoeba, Teetering Toucan and Barmy Bunnies in Clementi Op 36 #1, 2nd Mvt.

STUDY GROUP IX

March 8Christine T

Bach/Marcello: Adagio in d minor BWV 974

Repeated chords: Floating Flamingo, Skating Sloth, Swamp Monster, Fox Fandango. Alternate reapeated chords: Sleepy Bear, Amorphous Amoeba. Polyphony: Taichi Empty Step - Strolling Stork.

Three levels of key contact
for organic repeated chords:
skin, flesh, and bone - all
informed by extreme
Fox Fandango.

March 22Kathleen C.

Clementi: G major Sonatina, Op 36 #2, 1st mvt. Allegretto

RH strong entry: Flying Fox, Chuckling Chicken RH melody: Sauntering Sandpiper LH: Sauntering Sandpiper LH 8ves: Sleepy Bear Rhythm: Fox Fandango Scales: Floating Flamingo Leaps: Teetering Toucan

Integrate Sauntering Sandpiper
with the Whole Body to increase
virtuosity in melodies, changing
notes, scales and arpeggios

April 5Astrid L.

Bach: Little Prelude #2 in C major

Even thumb notes, agile mordent: Yawning Alligator Even melodies: Floating Flamingo, Teetering Toucan

Integrate Yawning Alligator and Floating Flamingo with the whole body

May 3Sinden M.

Joep Beving: Sleeping Lotus, arr. Jessie Black

Large LH leaps: Sleepy Bear< and Rotating Rattlesnake

Standing and Moving - Differentiating Musical Parts Through Whole Body Movement

May 17Christine T

Beethoven: F- sonata Op 2 No 1 - 2nd & 3rd mvts.

General use: Swamp Monster, Skating Sloth, Tai Chi Empty Step, Yawning Alligator Double Notes: Empty Step, Sauntering Sandpiper 32nd notes: Barmy Bunnies 3rds at m. 17: Floating Flamingo 3rd Mvt: Teetering Toucan sforzandi: Forte Flying Fox the turn at m. 30: Yawning Alligator

Refine the Basic Standing Action & Precision Choreography for Articulations

May 24Kathleen C

Schumann: Melody from Album for the Young

RH: Tight Rope Walker Elegant Alionus Skating Sloth for finger substitutions and agogic accents Forte Flying Fox agogics Yawning Alligator for melodic thumb notes LH alternating notes:

Yawning Alligator (preparatory) Lipizzaner Leaps (intermediate) Teetering Toucan (for playing) Rotating Rattlesnake

The Hand Lying Down, The Hand Standing Up, and Everything in Between - It's All Movement

July 5Astrid L.

Edna Mae Burnham: A Dozen a Day

TBD

TBD

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