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Body Mapping: What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body

By Ann Drinan — 2008

As a performer with injury, I was very lucky as a university student. When I mentioned to my teacher some pain I was having, I was advised to take an Alexander Technique class. The class was a revelation to me, not only because I was learning how to play pain free, but because I was able to play with the tone and the concept of sound I had always had in my mind but could never achieve consistently. The foundation for my Alexander Technique study was something my teachers, Barbara Conable and William Conable, called Body Mapping.

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What Is Body Mapping?

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