Alexander Technique On Viola Playing

For music performance students, expressing music is through the control of the musical instrument, but in many cases, it is the opposite; instruments control students. This is due to physical tension or physical distortion.Alexander Technique is an awareness technique which was founded by Frederick Matthias Alexander during late19th century, early20th century. The technique is to re-teach, to be aware, to rediscover self awareness, self instruction, to understand the functionality of muscles, joints, nerves. This technique have withstood time trial and had proven to be of immense value, and it is applied not only in the field of music, also in the medical field, sport etc.