Piano Forum
Piano Board => Student's Corner => Topic started by: jamie_liszt on August 27, 2006, 12:37:13 AM
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About 2 weeks ago I was practicing an accompinament where the left hand was all octaves. I practiced it so much that my 4th finger (LH) Got really sore in the joints. I rest my hand and took a break for 1 week and now I have to re-learn the polonaise and raindrop prelude for monday night, Which I have basically done already. I played the repeated octave section to heroic polonaise about 3 times and my 4th finger got sore in the joints again so I stopped playing.but I cant stop now because I have 2 days to practice the rest of the polonaise.
Has anyone got any tips on how to stop the pain, I have tried some tablet capsule things that have magnesium which my mom uses for her joints, Ive also tried heat packs and ice packs, and Arthiritus cream and I havnt played the piano with my left hand, unfortunately I have to before the performance. Anyone got any ideas on how to stop the pain?
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Hard to say...I would say lay off it until it heals, but if you have a performance that makes it difficult. Try not to injure it further by practicing hard on it. You may see if you can do the octaves w/ the 5th finger instead of 4?? Or, easier yet, take one of the registers of the octaves out!! J/k, though it makes the section a lot easier.
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Let us know how the performance goes!
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The performance went great, I didn't make any mistakes and I managed to get through the octaves section in the polonaise without any pain in my finger which was good. The crowd was very appreciative of my playing.