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A must for any serious keyboard player, August 3, 2008
This review is from: Freeing the Caged Bird - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique (DVD)
This DVD has literally changed my playing and my life. After several years of searching for answers regarding how to play the piano and organ with greater ease, I was fortunate enough to come across Lister-Sink's informative website, www.freeingthecagedbird.com. Barbara Lister-Sink has something extremely wonderful and unique to offer keyboard players of all ages and levels. She is, first and foremost, a consummate musician who practices that which she preaches. Her technique is something to be envied by even the greatest virtuosos in the field. And best of all, she's codified this technique into a rational, step-by-step, scientifically informed method that ensures the highest results. Of course, since a task as complicated as playing the piano involves one's overall alignment and state of muscles, it can't be learned by watching a DVD. Learning them requires a step-by-step, hands-on, systematic approach--from the simplest coordinations and most fundamental levels of sound production, to the most complex kinetic patterns. However, just one viewing of "Freeing the Caged Bird" is sure to open the eyes of most piano teachers and students. She is one of the world's most gifted pedagogues in the field of injury-prevention and well-coordinated keyboard technique, and it would behoove any serious keyboard player, especially those injured or feeling held back by malcoordination, to get this DVD.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Important Resource for the Piano World, January 15, 2009
This review is from: Freeing the Caged Bird - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique (DVD)
In this unique DVD, Barbara Lister-Sink shares with the world her marvelous discovery of what many great pianists have known, that piano playing does not have to be strenuous and fatiguing to the body or accompanied by discomfort and pain. Through her practical analysis of the mechanisms of both the piano and the human body, she establishes scientific principles of good coordination and shows the optimal functioning of these two mechanisms as they work together to produce great music. Piano myths are completely debunked, and a demonstration of her methods for teaching pianists the joy of a healthy working relationship between the body and the piano is given. This valuable presentation of piano technique at its best and most useful has the potential to give hope and guidance to frustrated pianists of all ages and levels.
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Do You Have Pain When You Practice or Perform?, November 24, 2008
This review is from: Freeing the Caged Bird - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique (DVD)
"Freeing the Caged Bird" is the DVD exploring an injury free technique in playing the piano. Barbara Lister-Sink is magnificent in her approach. She is innovative and a true leader in this field. Hundreds of concert musicians and professionals have been helped by her methods. One learns to produce not only a pain and excess-tension free method of piano playing, but one also achieves a suppleness and facile technique that enhances the musicality of one's playing tremendously. She is an Artist in Residence at Salem College and I have the great privilege of studying with her. She has students and teachers from all over the world in her classes and in her capable care. You must see this vidoe and explore this technique! What her methods produce musically must be seen and heard to be believed!
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