Small Hands =[ and Getting Nervous

Hello
It is so sad! I have very small hands! I can do octaves but barely.. I have to like touch the edges to play octaves, or even jumping when the piece is fast... My teacher gave me exercises to open the hands but they won't work .. sad.
Yeah and I have this problem of getting nervous when people are watching you. My hands get cold and sweaty and then I play like a robot . I think I'm not the only one with small hands and getting nervous...
It would be nice to get some tips
*Geny*

Your hands will grow, you're only 13, but I dont reach more than 1 octave + 1 key.

About the nervous thing, I can practice for myself while others are listening, but I mess really
up if people are like "Hey, play a song". But I dont have any tips about that..

Well, I cant give any tips.. But the nervousness will probably go away with experience infront of people. The more you know a thing also, makes you less nervous! As Andrew said once, think that you ar in a bubble, and in that bubble its oly you and the music

Small hans sucks!! I thought I had small hands, and I do, but I can reach one key above an octave. C-D And reach the edges on a C-E like you I guess on a normal octave!

EDIT. OOOoh, you are only 13 Then dont mind the handthing! It will probably grow alot the next few years

2 years ago, My hands was ridiculously small! Now I can I 1octave plus 3 xD
And there is no reason to get nervous: if you do error, people will respect that!

Great.. I think I'm now more relieved.. Thanx all

Geny2925 wrote: Great.. I think I'm now more relieved.. Thanx all

So! Hows it going? what songs are you experimenting with at the moment?!

thomandy wrote:

Geny2925 wrote: Great.. I think I'm now more relieved.. Thanx all

So! Hows it going? what songs are you experimenting with at the moment?!

Well... I already learned to play Fur Elise the easy piece and I'm working on Menuett G dur BWV.Anh.114 from J.S Bach and also Moonlight Sonata

Aaahm, nice!! So do you got a cam? You should post somthing in the Performancetopic. Just create a Personal "topiclog" and share with us I at least like to wach others!

Hehehe! Yeah I actually wanted to record.. But I don't have a cam . Well I could record with my laptop but it would be kind of hard... I will actually record when I get a cam =]

Geny2925 wrote:Hehehe! Yeah I actually wanted to record.. But I don't have a cam . Well I could record with my laptop but it would be kind of hard... I will actually record when I get a cam =]

Cool Looking forward to it
And in the mean time, try your pccam hehehe

sure I will. But maybe when my final exams ends... that'll be like... at the end of this month

good luck with your playing Geny! Don't worry, you're only 13, and I'm sure those hands are going to grow over the years. For the mean time, just practice practice practice.

Yea, your hands will be fine trust me.

I'm looking forward to see your performance ^_^

I can comfortly have an octave and a key, but I can ALMOST get to and E

Yea, The nervous thing will eventually go. I play quite often in the school hall on the grand piano. A few people walk through and some even watch me

well im 15 and i can only do one octave, but after like 10-15 minutes of playing or practicing my left pinky starts to hurt A LOT! and it sucks cause then i have to stop for the rest of the day =[ especially now that im trying to learn Comptine d'Un Autre Été composed by Yann Tierson

strokemymouse wrote:I can comfortly have an octave and a key, but I can ALMOST get to and E

Yea, The nervous thing will eventually go. I play quite often in the school hall on the grand piano. A few people walk through and some even watch me

Scary

Yea, Comptine d'Un Autre Été can be a bit akward.

There is an easier alternative for the bass line.

Insted of having it

E B G B
E---E

hopefully thats right, you could play

E B G B
----E

strokemymouse wrote:Yea, Comptine d'Un Autre Été can be a bit akward.

There is an easier alternative for the bass line.

Insted of having it

E B G B
E---E

hopefully thats right, you could play

E B G B
----E

yeah i know how to play the easy version you could say lol, but i really love the original version and it sound much better so far i have learned a little more than half of it =]

strokemymouse wrote:I can comfortly have an octave and a key, but I can ALMOST get to and E

Nice I canhave an octave and a key, but Not comfertly. And I barly manage to do an octave and 2 keys if I tuch the edge of the keys! =) But most important is to have easy octaves.

Geny2925 wrote:
It is so sad! I have very small hands!
*Geny*

but only hands small!

Haha rachmaninov hands vid!
I can do octave with my finger 1 and 2 octave +1 with effort