Furugh Karimi`s Authorial Methods of Learning to Play a Musical Instrument

Abstract

The paper deals with the author’s method of learning to play a musical instrument named Music Gym that belongs to professor of flute of University of music and performing arts Vienna Furugh Karimi. The method has been successfully applied in Europe. It is a system of exciting training with the use of different physical, communicative and psychological exercises which are combined with the music making. The method is based on educational kinesiology principles, namely a set of brain development exercises named Brain-Gym that Karimi managed to adapt to wind players. The lack of information on Karimi’s technique in Russian language provides the novelty of this subject. Its practical use could facilitate new methodological principles to improve the quality of national performing school representatives. This is particularly relevant in current realities, because it will help to make a learning process psychologically easier and cope with stress and tenseness during stage performance.