Thanks again. Hope you will go on a successful pianistic journey for yourself, too :)

Life goes on, one imagines.

I would say Invention No. 1 or No. 4 instead of No. 13

Thanks for mentioning the most important thing! See a specialist.

Exactly. And then your internet stranger peers would express their agreement or disagreement with your comments with other comments and up/downvotes. What happens next?

Totally agree with Advanced_Honey. Even if there are MDs and ODs on this site (and I'll bet there are), none of them is YOUR doctor and has evaluated your hand in person. Make an appointment to see an orthopedist or chiropedist. If you live in a state or country that licenses a Dr. of physical therapy (DPT) to diagnose, then go see a DPT.

In the meantime, you should continue resting your hand and of any motion causes pain, don't do it. You can apply a nonprescription topical anti-inflammatory cream, such as diclofenac gel (in the US, the brand name is Voltaren) but read the package information to see if you should avoid it because of specific health conditions. You can also try a topical CBD or CBD + THC cream if that's legal where you live. These can work quite well for inflammation associated with mild sprains, strains, and tendinitis. I have tendinitis in bothe pinkies and a bit of osteoarthritis in my thumbs, and apply both CBD cream and voltaren gel before and after practicing. They help a lot!

Her Guitarre piece is pretty nice. I’ve read through that a few times.

No a doctor, but I think this is sensible advice. I've suffered with tendon issues on and off throughout my adult life and it's nearly always been a volume issue - things just compound through general life activities and one thing can push you over the edge. Dial it back OP (sounds like you have done already) but generally complete rest after a point can be counterproductive. I'd also recommend seeing a proper sports physio. I'm in the UK and some are downright useless, but the good ones will give you a plan to gradually increase your exposure to load in a controlled way. Tendons are slow healers OP but they're definitely treatable. It feels like the end of the world when it happens but it does get better.

Yes, and then other people, if I were to present as a performance, i.e. ask for no critique, yet post a single passage from my piece as if I were working it up, could take the piss out of me, and rightfully so.

Stairway can sound great on piano too. On the rare Guitar Center visit, I play a few bars of it on whatever new digital keyboards they have. It gets smiles.

también tocas con las yemas y con la parte dura del dedo, debe ser con la parte dura

If you make the post you can make the video as long as you want.

tienes que usar los dedos, hacer el golpe de martillo, en el video veo al dedo meñique esforzandose muy poco

This is a solid start. A couple of things: 1. Your right hand in particular looks very tense, based on the prominent thumb tendon. Try to relax it a bit more.

1. You need to practice the sections that are still not quite smooth at a much slower pace. Practice just those measures at 60-70 beats/minute using a metronome until they are consistently smooth and error free, then repeat them 5 - 10 times in a row with 0 errors to really cement the neural pathways driving the patterns. If you make a mistake, that no longer counts as in sequence and start the count over. Once you can do this, increase your tempo in increments of 10 beats/min until you're up to the tempo of the rest of the piece. Once you're at tempo for the (previously) rough patches, isolate the transition into and including each and repeat this process. This is called block practicing.

For the future, when working on a new piece, start your block practice at a slow tempo until all parts of the piece is learned well, then start increasing the speed of the entire piece until you're at the desired tempo. Use a metronome for this (soundcorset is a free app and works nicely), but also learn to count and feel the beat internally without the metronome.

Keep up the good work!

Dream student :P

thank you so much!!!

Loved the sound of the music! The melody came through well.

I am by no means an expert on piano technique, but from the video I can see a very visible tendon on your right thumb. For me, those tendons don't pop out so much unless I'm playing a large interval (more than an octave). I don't think you're playing a huge interval (in fact in many moments, your thumb isn't even on a key and it still looks like that), so I'm guessing you have a lot of unnecessary tension in your thumbs.

My best guess to fix it would be to allow your hands to rotate a bit more. Like for your right hand, if you rotate your whole hand clockwise (from a birds eye view), your thumb can reach a lot farther without straining.

All that said, I could easily be wrong, so I'd love to hear from pianists with more training and expertise than me.

perfect way to introduce piano music to most people in the audience. nobody wants to listen to a 10 minute classical piece they never heard of! great list

I’m lagging

Wrists are way too low and you’re sitting too close

lol it’s just inverted from the camera

For a time, when "Breaking Bad" was still on the air, Solfeggieto in C Minor, CPE Bach.

All thanks to this scene.

This is the one. End thread.

Come outta deh store.

I have absolutely no idea why you a) think I am saying anything that’s wildly rude, and b) wouldn’t expect a performance of a piece to be more than 15 seconds.

Just like in real life where you can walk up to someone and say whatever words you want without consequence

/s