Moonlight Sonata

    
Moonlight Sonata    21:25 on Saturday, January 9, 2010          

happy-gal
(47 points)
Posted by happy-gal

I found online two different versions of the above. A short version and a longer version.

I played the shorter version which was only two pages long, and then thought I would try the longer fuller version which was 5 pages.

I only managed to do the first page because there were a lot of sharps and flats stretching across keys and I have short fingers and it was terribly difficult to reach some of the keys and my hand ached so I gave it up. What do people do about short fingers when trying to play such pieces? My teacher said that if I try hard enough, eventually my hands will get used to it. I never considered I had shot fingers until I took up the piano.

How do short fingered pianists cope?


Re: Moonlight Sonata    18:32 on Sunday, August 29, 2010          

TheMusicMaster7
(27 points)
Posted by TheMusicMaster7

Well, I will never know what it is like to have short fingers, because mine are really long... But when I was younger I had trouble playing those long stretched out chords, or octaves. If it's an octave your looking at just play the bottom note. For a long stretched out chord you could do a roll. Hope it helped!


   




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