finger slimming

[euphorion]

Is there any kind of exercises that will slim my fingers down?

[bench warmer]

Is there any kind of exercises that will slim my fingers down?

That's a Great first post!

Have you tried dunking them in SlimFast?

Seriously, I'm not sure if you or anyone can Trim their fingers without trimming their body:  lose weight.

The more you play/practice piano, the more supple and strenghtened everything becomes from you wrist down to your fingers, but thats about it.

[euphorion]

The problem is I don't need to lose weight, 'cause my body is very slim and skiny and only my fingers are fat and ugly.  A couple of years ago they were long and slender... and slim.
Why?

[bench warmer]

The problem is I don't need to lose weight, 'cause my body is very slim and skiny and only my fingers are fat and ugly.  A couple of years ago they were long and slender... and slim.
Why?

Perhaps it's water retention or poor circulation. Too much Salt in your diet can have this effect.

If your feet swell up also, you should direct your question to a physician. There is a condition called Congestive Heart Failure in which the feet swell up  beacuse the heart can't pump all the liquid back up from the extremities of your body.

Good Luck

[pianistimo]

noone cares if your fingers are fat.  only if your bum is.  don't worry so much.  you must have a headache by now. 

ok.  if it makes you feel better - do these five finger exercises:

123454321...
(in every key - going up by 1/2 step)
12123434545432321...

1324354231...

(and do them hands together - of course)

now- for the really slimming one - consecutive thirds:

13,24, 35, 42, 31...

13, 24, 13, 24, 35, 24, 35, 24, 13...

you can make up some of your own - but basically - you start into these and consecutively do them up the 12 chromatic five finger patterns - by doing #1 major #2 minor #3 diminished 5/5  repeat.

so for the very first exercise you would have

CDEFGFED CDEbFGFEbD CDbEbFGbFEbDbC  ... and on to the next 1/2 step up Db...

now - when you get to the end of the 12 consecutive 1/2 steps you go back down.  the next day - add exercise #2 to exercise #1 and don't stop until you do both.  think about relaxing as you play.  it shouldn't be 'work' per se.  just mental quickness.

[thalbergmad]

[pianowolfi]

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jakev2.0]

Worked for Schumann...











































OR DID IT?!

[thalbergmad]

Nothing could have helped that man.

[bench warmer]

Nonetheless.....................Sweet adVISE from T

[Bob]

What part of the fingers do you want to slim?

I've heard when you lose weight, you're fingers lose weight first.  I don't know how credible that is though.

[pianowolfi]

That is relatively true. When I lost weight massively a few years ago my wedding ring fell off my finger.

[pianistimo]

i used to know a jazz pianist that had faster fingers than anyone i know - and his fingers were fat. 

[franzliszt2]

Doing technical excersises like piantissimo suggested is not going to help at all!! It's not like running and losing a bit weight. I did technical work exactly like the one mentioned, and it didn't slim my fingers. They'll make them fatter, because the hand itself will start to get much more muscley. 

Your just going to have to live with it I'm afraid. But it's not a problem, my old teacher couldn't put him gingers between the black keys because they were so fat, and he could play anything.

[term]

The problem is I don't need to lose weight, 'cause my body is very slim and skiny and only my fingers are fat and ugly.  A couple of years ago they were long and slender... and slim.
Why?

Mabye you work hard (physical work)?
I know someone who plays piano with force rather than coordination, his fingers are fat.
If it's muscles, play as effortlessly as possible. Of course if you work hard this won't make a difference.
If it's really just fat...there's nothing you can do.

Your just going to have to live with it I'm afraid. But it's not a problem, my old teacher couldn't put him gingers between the black keys because they were so fat, and he could play anything.

exactly. (Almost) everyone has his problems, hands to small, fingers too fat, pinky too short...
But playing technically difficult stuff is still possible.

[steinwaynine]

Seriously, try The Southbeach Diet for two weeks.  Also, you don't want to hear this... Hanon like crazy.

[timothy42b]

Since you can't spot reduce your fingers, why not make the space between black keys bigger?

If i could take the black keys out and shave down the sides to make them narrower, I'd have much more room to play in between.

Does anybody do this? 

[euphorion]

Bullshit.

[Bob]

Different size keyboard has always been an interesting idea.  They have that for strings, why not keyboards?

My fingers don't fit between black keys nicely.  You just have to learn to deal with it.

Shaving the black keys down a bit is an interesting idea.  But then you're making the precision so much more to hit them.