{"id":742,"date":"2013-08-13T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/Wordpress\/?p=742"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:15:00","slug":"the-poised-guitarist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"The Poised Guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first experience of mapping was failing to connect with a bar stool which wasn’t where I thought it was. Many of us have a misconception of how our joints connect and where an action starts from. The Alexander teacher Barbara Conable<\/a> has done extensive research and written books on the subject of body mapping<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A while ago I wrote an article about focal dystonia<\/a> and mentioned Jerald Harscher<\/a>, a guitarist and teacher with whom I had an enlightening session on Skype\u00a0(even though I was beginning to feel self conscious about the spelling of my name when talking to him.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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I discovered he had trained in body mapping and also had the idea of interviewing virtuosos, a project he calls “The Virtuoso’s Map Project<\/a>“, where he asks guitarists of extraordinary ability “Do you move for a living?”.<\/em><\/div>\n
There are more to come, but here are a couple of \u00a0videos which he has made so far.<\/em><\/div>\n
There is also an interview<\/a>\u00a0with Jerald.<\/em><\/div>\n
Here is his site, The Poised Guitarist <\/a>which offers much of relevance to guitarists who want to avoid injury (and he also offers lessons). It’s well worth exploring.<\/em><\/div>\n
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