Tendonitis?

rotating! Generally when you lift your fourth, one of its neighbours should "come along for the ride" because of those shared tendons. Don't pedantically hold down both the 3rd & 5th fingers when trying to lift your 4th. When you learn to be more skeletal, the bones do more the work of connecting you to the key, and you'll no longer feel the need for such a large muscular effort. This takes time, however... fatigue in either the hand or the upper arm. Most often this means you are activating muscles that have been dormant too long, and they are not used to the work! Keep at it, develop them, you need them. It is fatigue in the forearm that is the real bugaboo - this generally indicates a problem somewhere else that is putting strain on that part. For those of you with forearm pain, you had better figure out just what the problem is and do something about it quick! AFF

I am having forearm pain after a practice section. Now, I can say that I could play the etude without pain(maybe just for today).. Don't know why.. But the Fantasie Impromptu, At the section after the down run and when I use the thumb to make the melodies, It hurts.. I stopped and carefully observe the hand to find what is wrong.. But there isn't any weird. Well, there is no arch because it is in octaves (not completely no arch though but little), I even sit lower and follow the sitting posture of (What Every Pianist Needs to Know about the body). Sitting becomes easier and thus The wrist is straighten out than usual. Even though it's straighten out, I still have pain. even tried to use the thumb muscle but didn't work. and after trying out sitting on the sit bone, my lower back is more tired than usual, maybe because I'm not used to it yet. If you are playing with a really tired body, does that affect any of these. Because I can only practice after I get home and I am always exalted. Today, I found out that the teacher I was talking about is from Julliard.. Unfortunately, she is not my private teacher. I was at her and her husband concert turning the page. They play like crazy, super.

Of course, playing when you are tired you are more prone to hurting yourself. You must take all the more care to organize yourself well. When you play really well-organized you feel energized afterwards instead of tired - but this capacity takes time to learn and develop. I do caution you. I sense that you have a lot of positive energy and enthusiasm, but that you need to take more care and not expect huge advances overnight - building a technique is a long, slow, painstaking process. As Feldenkrais always said, "Go slow in order to go fast!" AFF