What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body

What You Will Learn

SECTION ONE: ABOUT MOVEMENT, YOUR SENSES, AND ATTENTION IN PLAYING and SINGING

Training musicians’ movement by cultivating an accurate and adequate Body Map. Training sensory discernment and responsiveness. Training attention.

SECTION TWO: THE CORE OF THE BODY AND THE PLACES OF BALANCE

The spine; the balance of the head on the spine; the balance of the head and thorax on the lumbar vertebrae; the balance of the torso on the legs; balance at the knee; balance at the ankle; balance on the arch of the foot; and the balance of the arm structure.

SECTION THREE: YOUR FOUR ARM JOINTS AND HOW TO USE THEM

The four main arm joints; the organization of the arm; support for arm movement.

SECTION FOUR: THE MOVEMENT OF BREATHING

Mapping the structures of breathing and the movement of breathing, including a dynamic core.

SECTION FIVE: YOUR LEGS AND HOW THEY MOVE AS YOU PLAY

The three leg joints; the organization of the musculature; support for leg movement by a dynamic core; dynamic leg movement as support for playing.

SECTION SIX: HOW TO

Individual work with instruments.