Help me.

I can't play any instruements due to a nasty injury in my knee and arm. I haven't been able to do any music for two days and im all ready going crazy.

Does anyone have any suggestions?????

I Miss it

micky

Sorry to hear this, Micky. If it's only one arm that's injured, can you use the other hand? It might be a good time to work on piano exercises for one hand, or (if the right hand is OK) fast arpeggio work on your guitar with open strings.

Failing that, can you listen to music and imagine you're playing it?

Hehe

Yeah, I like that idea. ahh, I would look like the man out of ...I think I'm wanting to say, "the Pianist"

You know the one that has the Concert Pianist who is a Jew and he goes on the run from the Nazi Germany. Its about the Second World War??? Well he is hiding in a flat and it has a piano. He shadows out a piece over the keys and we hear the music to it. If anyone hasn't saw it, I highly recommend it.

Ahh
well thankyou for that, gave me a little cheering up

micky

Could you maybe try to compose something? Hope you recover soon, it sounds horrid.

One handed press rolls?
Harmonica?

yes micky, that's a really nice film
i saw it some months ago
if i not mistaken the name of the pianist is szpilman

i really love one scene when the pianist caught by a germany secretary then the secretary told him to play one piece, the piece was really amusing. i dunno what the title is

by the way, sorry to hear about your injury, maybe you can watch this movie again

You can still sing.

I feel you pain. I broke one of my left finger last year, 2 weeks before I was going to enrol myself for my grade 8 piano exam. It was a blow!!! I argued with the doc and tried convincing him it was just sprained. He didn't buy it

I almost went nuts.. At first I started with just playing with my right hand, it got boring, so I gradually learnt how to just play with 3 fingers on the left. Only thing was, when I got the bandage and pins off months later, it felt weird playing with 5 fingers. I had to 'relearn' how to use all 5 fingers together. Weird.. I'm not sure what instruments you play though. I play the violin as well, and that was just impossible so I didn't touch it for the next 6 months.

If you have friends doing music you can also get them to play while you listen/watch at the side. It doesn't matter if it is just a beginner. It just feels so good to see someone doing what you want to do This is more 'real' as opposed to listening to recordings. Save the recordings for those times where you're seconds away from pulling off all the bandages they put on you and do some proper playing. You'll also be surprised at how much you can learn and improve just by watching others. Also, you can practice scales or technical work with just the uninjured arm. As a result of doing that, my right hand scales is now 10 times better than the other, so that's a bonus.

Don't worry, you'll get through it and hopefully get better soon! Hope this helps and before you know it, you'll be back to playing!!

yeah that bit is brilliant. I really loved that film.

But....i have not got a clue where it is haha.

oh welll...

micky