PIANIMALS METHOD
28 Feldenkrais Lessons for the Beginning Pianist's Hand
Pianimals brings the ideas of Piano Somatics to the beginning pianist. Treating the hand as a mini-body, Pianimals offers exercises that help it lie down, stand up, walk, run and leap on the keyboard easily and effortlessly. Each exercise is linked to an animal who moves similarly in nature, and to compositions which turn the basic movement into music.
Designed to bring the ideas of Piano Somatics to a wider audience, Pianimals distils the 250 Awareness Through Piano Movement lessons from Alan's previous four books into 28 lessons that help young pianists, and pianists young at heart, quickly improve their sound, their agility, their speed, and their emotional expression.
Pianimals is actually a set of five books:
- The Teachers Manual
- The Pupils Books, Volumes 1 & 2
- Pianimals Pointers
- The Pianimals Playbook
On this store page you can buy the entire 5-book set at a special combo price of $97.95 - to buy them separately, scroll down past the short descriptions to make individual purchases.
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The Teachers Manual
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(126 A4 pages with introduction, detailed exercises, illustrations & musical compositions... spiral binding for easy opening at the piano.)
The teachers' manual contains:
- * an introduction
- * detailed description of the exercises
- * illustrations
- * the music with accompaniments
- * appendices
Read Book Excerpts (from the unpublished manuscript)
See the Pianimals exercises demonstrated in these online video tutorials.
PIANIMALS Vol 1 - From Lying to Standing
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(Pupil's book, 92 pages with illustrations, instructions & musical compositions)
The pupil's method has the music, short technical suggestions, and lavish illustrations. Volume I covers lying down and standing. A more complete exploration of the exercises is found in the teachers' manual.
Read Book Excerpts (from the unpublished manuscript)
PIANIMALS Vol 2 - Walk, Run & Leap
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(Pupil's book, 72 pages with illustrations, instructions & musical compositions)
The pupil's method has the music, short technical suggestions, and lavish illustrations. Volume II covers walking, running and leaping. More complete descriptions of the exercises are found in the Teachers' Manual.
Read Book Excerpts (from the unpublished manuscript)
PIANIMALS POINTERS - Essential Exercises
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(32 A4 pages with glossy photographic illustrations & brief, concise instructions.)
12 micro-lessons with sumptuous photo illustrations to make the exercises even clearer. The photographs show the hand moving through the entire trajectory of an action, offering the studio teacher quick and easy access to the exercises most often used with young pupils.
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PIANIMALS PLAYBOOK Performance Edition
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(108 pages with all the musical compositions in primo/secondo format)
The Pianimals Playbook contains all the music with secundo on the left hand page and primo on the right hand page for ease of performance. All the compositions in one handy volume, with thumbnail illustrations.
Read Book Excerpts (from the unpublished manuscript)
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Buy the complete set of Pianimals materials for this special low price.
These include:
- The Pianimals Teachers Manual: 28 Feldenkrais lessons for the developing hand, plus illustrations plus musical examples: compositions that integrate the exercise into a musical setting.
- Pianimals Pointers: 12 micro-lessons with sumptuous photo illustrations to make the exercises even clearer.
- The Pianimals Pupils' Method, Volumes 1 & 2
- The Pianimals Playbook, all the Pianimals compositions in one handy volume with no explanatory text, in primo-secondo format for duet performance situations.
With all these materials at your disposal you can quickly master the strategies of Pianimals and begin using them in your teaching.
