my pinky does weird stuff when i play

[swagmaster420x]

it spams up and down when i play, and when i do pinky trills or fast stuff involving my pinky, it tends to straighten out... what to do guyz pls help or i suicide

[worov]

my pinky does weird stuff when i play

So does Horowitz's pinky ! So I guess it's not a problem.

[magic_sonata]

Never fear, this is common among a lot of players, and I have broken this habit.
When playing trills or scales in pieces, keep your hand and arm relaxed. Your pinky is sticking up due to too much tension in the wrist. Once you loosen up your hand, your arm, and your wrist, this will also open doors for more power in your playing, more opportunities for dynamic contrast, and it will be significantly easier to play.

[nyiregyhazi]

Never fear, this is common among a lot of players, and I have broken this habit.
When playing trills or scales in pieces, keep your hand and arm relaxed. Your pinky is sticking up due to too much tension in the wrist. Once you loosen up your hand, your arm, and your wrist, this will also open doors for more power in your playing, more opportunities for dynamic contrast, and it will be significantly easier to play.

Literally the opposite of my experience. The more I strive to relax, the more my fifth points up and the more it screws the way the rest of my fingers perform. The solution for me was to point thumb and fifth virtually straight down like rubinstein, or to curl in the fifth like horowitz. Note how horowitz's curled fifth primes the knuckle- actively stopping it from dipping down in a droop. If the fifth flies around without control, you need to find a way to get the knuckles out instead of in.