Tag: function

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THINKING IN A NEW WAY—Overcoming Habits (Part 5 of 6): Fleet Fingers

By Selma Gokcen March 4, 2013

Subjects Playing Healthy

Tags Alexander Technique, articulation, Awareness, bend, body, bow technique, cello, cello playing muscles, clarity, connection, expression, fingers are flexible, function, Gokcen, habit, Healthy, paraspinal muscles, Selma, sensation of opposition, sensation of the back, sound production, tension

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THINKING IN A NEW WAY—Overcoming Habits (Part 4 of 6): The Arm Becomes the Bow

By Selma Gokcen February 25, 2013

Subjects Playing Healthy

Tags Alexander Technique, arms, beauty, bend and extend, body at ease, bow strokes, Casals, cello, cello playing muscles, cellobello, challenges, collapse, contraction, dynamics, energy, fingers, flexible, function, Gokcen, Habits, importance of quietness, increased resistance, inner pitch, misguided effort and unease, nasal sound, neck, partnership, perspective, powerful accents, powerful arms, pressured sound, principle of opposition, process, pull and push, repeated sensory stimulation, Selma, sensitive gesture, sensory awareness, simple gesture, Six Part Series, teaching table, thinking in new ways, unwanted sound, volume, wrist

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The Process of Unlearning Habits

By Selma Gokcen November 5, 2012

Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing

Tags Alexander Technique, back, brain, cello, cellobello, Effective, effort, energy, function, Gokcen, Habits, head, muscle memory, musicians, neck, nervous system, Preparation, process, professional musicians, relationships, Selma, singing, Technique, tension, training, unlearning habits

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