Help with fingering, my hand can't reach the notes

[stanis]

Hi everyone, there is a bar where I'm supposed to play 4 notes, two with left hand and two with right hand. The left ones are too far away for my hand, what should I do?
I'm attaching the portion of the piece, squared in red.

Thank you

[brogers70]

You could either (1) play the low F# as a grace note before the A but catch it with the pedal so it continues to sound or (2) if that blurs the melodic line too much, just bring the low F# up an octave.

or (3) play the left hand A with your nose - supposedly Bach did that in some contest with another organist.

[quantum]

Option 1: Roll the LH interval

Option 2: Catch the tied E with pedal, then let go of it with the finger.  Play A-A with the RH, and F# with the LH.  Catch the F#-A-A-E harmony with pedal, then let go of the A.  Continue the RH with D, C, Eb...

Option 3: Omit the bottom A.  The pitch has been doubled, and is represented an octave above.  You won't loose harmonic content by doing this.  However, it will change the flavour of the chord voicing. 

Option 4: Redistribute pitches of the chord.  brogers70 has suggested moving the F# up an octave.


Looking at the following bar, we also see another minor 10th of G-Bb.  Rolling the F#-A, as well as the G-Bb would lend more continuity to the pattern. 

[ravelfan07]

Hi everyone, there is a bar where I'm supposed to play 4 notes, two with left hand and two with right hand. The left ones are too far away for my hand, what should I do?
I'm attaching the portion of the piece, squared in red.

Thank you

Try and roll it, won’t sound perfect but it’ll sound better than not playing it at all