{"id":35637,"date":"2011-08-04T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35637"},"modified":"2014-01-01T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T16:31:15","slug":"indirect-procedures-a-musicians-guide-to-the-alexander-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35637","title":{"rendered":"Indirect Procedures: A Musician&#8217;s Guide To The Alexander Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de Alcantara has published such books as <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Indirect-Procedures-Musicians-Alexander-Paperbacks\/dp\/0198165692\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1312478643&#038;sr=8-3\"><em>Indirect Procedures: A Musician&#8217;s Guide to the Alexander Technique<\/em><\/a>, <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alexander-Technique-Skill-Life\/dp\/1861262868\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2\">The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life<\/a><\/em>, and <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Integrated-Practice-Coordination-Rhythm-Sound\/dp\/0195317084\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3\">Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm &#038; Sound<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/bodylearning.buzzsprout.com\/382\/25174-how-musicians-can-benefit-from-the-alexander-technique\">In an interview with Robert Rickover<\/a>, Pedro says: Pedro \u201cThe Alexander Technique is a way of solving a problem by putting the problem aside and working on yourself instead, focusing on yourself, calming yourself, and opening up your mind. If you do that, most problems disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More musicians than actors know the Alexander Technique. One of the reasons for it is that a musician who takes an Alexander lesson and the lesson goes well, the musician will immediately hear a difference in his music-making or singing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert: &#8220;And often there&#8217;s an immediacy of pain relief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pedro: &#8220;When I took my first Alexander lesson, I was not having any pain. I was playing the cello in college and my teacher saw that I was an awkward player.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de Alcantara has published such books as Indirect Procedures: A Musician&#8217;s Guide to the Alexander Technique, The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life, and Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm &#038; Sound. In an interview with Robert Rickover, Pedro says: Pedro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[31647,27339,27338,27340,27337,19784],"class_list":["post-35637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique","tag-alexander-technique","tag-cello","tag-immediacy","tag-pain-relief","tag-pedro-de-alcantara","tag-robert-rickover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51686,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35637\/revisions\/51686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}