In Tune: Exercises to Improve a Musician’s Performance and Quality of Life is a one-of-a-kind book with targeted exercises, created specifically for musicians, that are intended to enhance muscle strength, elasticity, and flexibility. Workout routines for before and after playing have been curated to address all regions of the body including the chest, neck, back, abdominals, shoulders, arms, legs, hands, and face. This book gives musicians a vocabulary of the muscles and a complete anatomical map of the structures related to playing an instrument. Tools are provided to maintain fitness and teach injury prevention and rehabilitation. In Tune may be used by a musician of any level to sustain physical health and wellness during the span of their musical career.
Table of Content
Foreword
Prologue
1: Introduction
2: Basic Concepts
Flexibility Exercises
Stretching Exercises
Toning Exercises
Warming up and Cooling down
3: Exercises by Region of the Body
Hand
Forearm
Arm, Shoulder, and Chest
Neck and Dorsal Region of the Back
Lumbar and Abdominals
Thigh and Leg
Face
4: Exercises by Instrument
Wind, Front
Small Wind, Front
Wind, Side
Wind, Lateral
Bowed String, Front
Large Bowed String
Bowed String, Shoulder
Plucked String
Plucked String, Harp
Percussion
Percussion, Drum Set
Keyboard
Keyboard with Hands and Feet
Brass
Brass, Lateral
5: Staying Healthy and Fit
6: Exercises for Special Situations
7: Exercises that are Advised Against
Appendices
Glossary of Muscles
Glossary of Terms
Index
About the author
Dr. Annie Bosler wears many hats in her career as a Los Angeles freelance horn player. She has toured with John Williams’ Star Wars in Concert and with Josh Groban, and performed on Dancing with the Stars, The Ellen Show, and PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center. Annie shared the stage with Ringo Starr and Paul Mc Cartney on CBS’s The Beatles: The Night That Changed America. She performed with Ariana Grande and Chance the Rapper at The Grammy’s, P-Diddy at The American Music Awards, and Wu-Tang Clan at Coachella. Annie can be heard on many motion pictures, video games, theme park rides, and TV shows as well as seen playing horn on Fox’s TV show Glee. Named a TED Educator in 2017, Dr. Bosler co-wrote How to practice…for just about anything. The video went viral receiving over 50 million views on social media. In May of 2015, Annie also gave a TEDx talk about facial rehabilitation and brain plasticity entitled Elissa’s Song: The Power of Face Exercises. She specializes in wind pedagogy, specifically teaching facial anatomy and symmetry as it relates to the embouchure, injury rehabilitation, creative ways to educate beginning students, and audition preparation for high school and college students. Having taught in the Colburn School for Performing Arts for nearly a decade. Annie has a 100% track record of helping students get into a school of their dreams. She co-authored College Prep for Musicians a book for high school students, parents, teachers, and counselors. Also, Annie produced and directed 1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Years, a one-of-a-kind documentary film about the history of Los Angeles studio musicians told through the eyes of the legendary Hollywood horn players. In 2022, Annie has enjoyed working as a writer for Tianjin Juilliard’s Music Discovery curriculum and is excited to publish a book called In Tune: Exercises to Improve a Musician’s Performance and Quality of Life.Annie is professor of horn at California State University, Northridge. She served as the secretary/treasurer of the International Horn Society Executive Board for five years. In addition, she cohosted the largest International Horn Symposium, bringing over 1, 000 musicians to Los Angeles in 2015. Annie holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University where she played varsity tennis, and a MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. She is married to studio hornist Dylan Skye Hart. She has a love for teaching, writing, producing film projects, Instagram, agriculture, traveling, playing tennis, and watching college football. For more information, visit 1M1hollywoodhorns.com, IHSLA2015.com, and collegeprepformusicians.com.
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