Body Awareness
Conquer awareness of your body when you are playing.
Articulation ease
Course: Body mapping for the piccolo playerby Rena Urso
7 min.
At times, we piccolo players experience unwanted tension, limitation, and pain. Learn how to develop greater awareness, and enjoy more ease, freedom, and fluidity in your piccolo playing with Body Mapping!
Body awareness playing the piccolo
Course: The basics of piccolo playingby Nicola Mazzanti
9 min.
Not only will proper posture make you play for decades without damage or pain: it will actually make you sound better! In this first video there are a few, simple but fundamental instructions so that your relationship with the instrument is free, enjoyable and profitable!
Exploring balance
Course: Body mapping for the piccolo playerby Rena Urso
19 min.
Continue your search for body awareness thanks to the application of Body Mapping!
The arm structure: part one
Course: Body mapping for the piccolo playerby Rena Urso
14 min.
In this lesson you will learn the anatomy of the arm structure, how to prevent wrist and forearm pain and how to feel expansive vs small when playing piccolo.
The arm structure: part two
Course: Body mapping for the piccolo playerby Rena Urso
7 min.
In this lesson you will continue to explore the arm structure with Rena, practicing with 4 exercises to gain more freedom of movement while playing.
The arm structure: part three
Course: Body mapping for the piccolo playerby Rena Urso
18 min.
In this lesson you will continue to explore the arm structure with Rena, focusing on the hands.
What really happens when we breathe
Course: Body mapping for the piccolo playerby Rena Urso
23 min.
Breathing is, really, one of the most important things when we want to get a good mastering of our piccolo playing.
It is often underestimated, and even more often it is understood in a confused or incomplete way: in this lesson, Rena Urso explains the complete process of breathing in detail, to allow us to resolve all our doubts on this subject and to no longer give ourselves limits caused by bad breathing.
