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Hi,
I’m just messing with the first 3 chords of Misty and found that my fingers (though not at all fat) have a hard time fitting between the black keys and not dragging the surrounding keys down with the finger when it’s pressed. I can feel them and see them going down a bit and they rub on each side of my finger even if I turn my hand to try and ease the situation.Any good advice?
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Hi Bob – I once had the opportunity to shake hands with McCoy Tyner. His hands were massive, his fingers like large carrots, and his grip velvety smooth. I don’t know exactly how he adapted his playing style to deal with his unusually large hands – I’ve never seen an overhead view of his playing – but obviously he figured out how to deal with those challenges. And many players have learned how to deal with unusually small hands.
Post a picture of where you seem to have problems and maybe someone will have some ideas for you.
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Doesn’t look atypical to me. It’s not unusual for your fingers to fit rather snuggly between black keys (mine do too). If those fingers are more bent at the first knuckle and more perpendicular to the keys that will help. If your hands are angled a tad so those fingers aren’t straight on (which is a pretty natural position) your fingers are narrower top to bottom and thus not quite as tight.
I think you’ll grow used to dealing with this. You can have a fair amount of friction on adjacent black keys without actually causing hammers to strike strings. With an electronic keyboard the touch might be lighter and thus a bigger potential problem.
Stick with “Misty” for a while and see how things go. If you have a piano store nearby go try “Misty” on an acoustic piano and see if the difference in touch makes any difference. If you’re not actually causing the adjacent note to sound I’d wouldn’t worry about it.
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