Owwwwww.... Hands Hurt! Too F%^)$% Much Piano!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Well, okay, so I'm ADDICTED to the ivories, but seriously... I think playing the same part (very beginning of "Heart and Soul") OVER and OVER again (for, oh, fifteen minutes straight---the same two measures!) until it is BURNED into my muscle memory ain't such a hot idea in the short run of things! Damn, my hands are a-twitchin'!

So what's up with everyone? Chasing after Forrest, are we? :P :P

;)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Because I'm an attention whore...

Shameless :kick:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Hey...the elfin pictrure of Delay's on CNN's homepage!

:P :P :P Funny pic.....

:P

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. I want to get back into playing the keyboards.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. You oughta.

'Tis fun, if very fucking painful sometimes. Well, it's only fucking painful because I OVERPRACTICE, but....

:D :D

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Do some finger stretching exercises too.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Oh believe me, my teacher is a SLAVE-DRIVER

with those. Oh well. 'Tis necessary.

[plcdude]

7. I had that problem

when I was younger but it wasn't the piano causing it. ;)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Pffft.

I really DON'T know what to make of THAT reply.

:P :P ;)

[skygazer]

9. My SO used to play years ago

He occasionally bitches about how much he loved it and how he used to play this or that and I tell him, go downstairs and pull out your keyboard and set it up and PRACTICE then - but all he wants to do is bitch. He doesn't want to actually put anything into it. LOL

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. ROFL! That sounds like me for a while--

Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch. Then finally--LESSONS. /bitching

:D :D :D

[Dora]

10. Sore hands?

I recommend arnica gel or pellets. My husband gets sore hands and wrists after a four-hour night of playing brushes, and he swears by the arnica.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Brushes, eh?

Very cool :D :D :D

I've heard 'bout the arnica. Sounds interesting. :D Thank ya.

[redqueen]

13. Oooh I want a piano

I have a keyboard but am too technologically challenged to figure out how to program / use the split, so it's useless to me (since I love to play classical).

Someday...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. I gots a pianee for me birfday in Septemba.

:D :D Had a Yamaha keyboard until then. Acoustic piano sounds MUCH better, though. FEELS a lot better, too, of course.

[redqueen]

15. Ooooooh I'm so jealous!

The sound, the feel... *drools*

Kudos to you for taking lessons. I've been 'self taught' since grade school, and really should get a teacher to learn the finer points. Just memorizing sheet music is okay, but I'm missing out I know.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. Thank you.

Yes, it is a whole different ball of wax with a teacher. I, too, have "self-taught" myself--with interesting results. Finally buckled down and decided to nab a teacher--only two weeks ago! I LOVE it.

Yeah, I still drool over my pianee as well...

:P :P

[Metta]

17. I had to have deep massage after too much guitar and computer recently.

Ibuprofen, too. Still not out of the woods.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Are your hands tense when you play?

The hardest thing to learn about playing an instrument is how to relax.

Whenever you experience pain while playing, you should stop immediately and work out the kinks.