I just came across your channel for the first time today and already watched several videos. I sincerely thank you for what you are sharing with us, you're in my eye an incredible human being. Blessings to you and have fun playing music !
It seems you left a toxic relationship with the piano to a healthy one. And it looks you fall in love again with the piano, but in a mature way.....amazing 🤔
@@pianotechnique you teach us an important lesson: to identify a toxic approach to the piano, stand back, rethink and come back in a healthy way to the piano, the music and us and become one. Lovely 🤗
Should you never feel pain? I have been practicing a lot more since college is done, and I’m starting to feel some pain in my left arm (which I never have usually my right, my right doesn’t feel much pain at all anymore because I really think I utilize arm/body/wrist weight really well with that), my left usually has always felt perfect, but now when I do the stretch where you face your wrist downwards it hurts (in the meaty part of my forearm by elbow). Sometimes also the insides of my hands hurt, but I figure these are mostly just growing pains as I’m a beginner and I have reinvented my technique more recently, and it’s helped a lot for tone and so on. But, I made some mistakes while doing it and have some slight pain… To keep my question prompt, and to restate it: should you never feel any pain while growing into a musician? I can play scales and arpeggios fast, and I can play Chopin prelude in a major with complete freedom (like lifting my arms high and having a good tone on every note), but, the insides of my hands hurt like by my knuckles, and left forearm. I’m taking a break for a couple days
Also, one more brief thing. I’ve suffered from tenosynovitis and have been seeing a chiropractor. This was unrelated to piano, I got this from video games.
This is probably cureable; but it requires a complete break from what one is doing in the past. "There is always enough time to do what "needs" to be done.
I can't speak to focal dystonia but I developed a serious hip injury, nerves and muscles, sitting to low and too close to the keyboard for 5 years. Took medical intervention, PT, stretches and strength exercises, for nearly a year for a 95% + recovery. Great advice, play some different styles of music; not considering them "serious" music is superiority narrative, very much part of what needs to be dismatled and overwritten in body, brain and mind. I call it spiritual development/transformation. Goes by different names but the same substance. Very classy channel; helpful for recovering from repetitive stress injuries in any venue. I often think the very best teachers are those who have recovered from a serious (piano) injury; the successful players without this blessing just play, even though they don't know how they do it. Great stuff; spiritual dimensions are absolutely where it's at, down deep. Take care of yourself; "keep the faith," whatever that is, and the faith will keep you. In the meantime, we have enough great videos to keep us going for a long time.
