Activity Of The Fingers

HELLO ALAN, I wanted to thank you for your videos and answers they are extremely helpfull! I saw in one of the videos about the octaves playing-you suggested that there should be some activity of the fingers,demonstrating a slight grasping motion. If I am trying to do this grasping motion on every single octave (playing many of them in a row at high level speed),my wrist gets stuck. I am assuming i didnt understand the concept very well or Im doing something wrong.... -another technical question-when lowering the wrist slightly beneath the mcp joint there is a greater sense of strenth and control of the fingers than when the wrist is on the same hight of the fingers or slightly higher (hope i explained it clearly),i was wondering why is that? thank you so much!

Hi, Here are Alan's videos on octaves on .

The faster yo play octaves, the less you actually DO the finger flexion. It becomes more of an internal orientation, a tonus, an intention. If you actually do the curling movement too much, of course your wrist will freeze. It is trying to reestablish the stability you lost by over-moving at high speed. About your second question: look at the angles. It's obvious that a lower wrist is going to increase the angle of finger flexion and thus the power expressed by that flexion. AFF