This. It’s so tragic lol. Not only that, but I have the daintiest fingers ever so I can have a lot of trouble with dynamics and not missing notes (because I didn’t press hard enough). I’ve gotten so good at jumping now tho i can land some very weird ones
Bro forgot to mention my man Liszt who expects an average pianist to be able to reach a C on one piano and an E on a piano on the other side of the planet
There is an urban legend here in Austria (where Liszt was from) that he had this little web between the thumb and the index finger cut so he could reach more keys 😅
@@annanascht_5824 If I remember my Music History correctly, Liszt did do that, despite getting warnings from others, but it ended up making it more difficult to play, and he couldn't use that hand fully for the rest of his life.
When I was born, the first thing my grandmother noticed about me was my fingers. She said "that girl's gonna play Rachmaninoff someday". She was right. :)
Just get a custom size keyboard with narrower keys and yo're good to go, takes a couple hours to re-adjust but you gain a lifetime free of stress and insecurity. ✌️
My rather small piano teacher really eliminated all of my excuses when playing😭 "I can't play this it's to far apart" And she just casually plays it with a hand half the size of mine 😅
@@samtian5940 You can also roll into parts that are too hard to reach, turning them into what are essentially grace notes. If you play them fast enough, they're hardly noticeable. This sometimes means starting slightly ahead of the beat in order to end up with your final note on the beat if you're rolling a chord or anything that's above an octave, such as a 13th. When I say roll, I mean taking your thumb and making a rounded motion with the rest of your hand until you reach the higher note. It's not quite the same as just jumping, but creates similar results. It's usually more effective if you need to play 3 or more notes. Hope that helps.
i literally just looked up "i can't play this it's too far apart" song, and couldn't find any results. then i came back to this comment and realized how stupid i was being🤣
It's true. My hand span's 9 notes but my jumps are like the jumps of a disoriented tree frog. There's no way I can play Rachmaninoff in another 5 years.
- Agreed, in the letters written in Mozarts hand he's aware that his hand were "small" however, the clavier at that time was petite, not the pianos we have today so it wasn't an issue for him, so we who are octave challenged are in good company.!
@@charlesthomas5956well, I've heard that they had a smaller size of the piano once, so Mozart could have used this but I'm not sure (btw manufacturers could easily adjust the size of the piano now, I'm often thinking this solution would be so easy lol)
@@keizee100 its quite a surprise you have small hands, ive played piano for a year now and i can reach just about C - Eb, my hands are pretty big for an 11 yr old. My friends consider me as the 11 yr old Rachminaoff lol
@@kianvivo7938 wow, that's crazy impressive. Also, i realized something today after going up against the piano. If I simply *lay* my outstretched hands on the keys, I reach 9 keys (octave +1), but then I also realized that my 7 year old sister can play 7 keys, and reach 8 keys outstretched. She's 7... I'm 17... double her age ;-;
It’s both really. Playing the piano helps train your hands to stretch further, but of course it will always help to have big hands, I’ve been playing for years and I can only get as far as a 9th (from C to D)
I've been playing for years and.....it was just genetics curse :). C-C here ( was always able to do so) and C-D is just grazing over D if...there aren't any notes in between to be played by the other fingers.
ima just say it doesn’t matter how long you have been experienced with piano, it depends on how big your hands are, I’ve been playing for 6 years, and I can only go up to C#- Eb
@@jakecamilton7951 Yeah, he said he has been playing for 6 years. And I have been playing for 6-7 months and I can play Turkish March, Fur Elise, starting of fantaise impromptu, and starting of la campannella
Same with playing guitar. The best players aren't the ones with the biggest hands or the longest fingers, it's the ones whose fingers are most flexible.
Your reach is determined almost exclusively by the size of your hands. It makes no difference how flexible you are if your fingers aren't long enough to reach. Stretching might help you reach one more key, maybe two if you were extremely tight, but that's it. Flexibility will never help you play 12ths.
There are some custom made pianos for small handed pianists to reach 9th and 10th notes but don't know where you can buy one :D if you really interested you should check it out
The difficulty would be fitting the strings, hammers and tuning nuts. Reducing the size of these would completely change the sound from that of a piano to something that kinda reminds of a piano.
What is the meaning of learning all your repertoire on your tiny piano from home, and you can never replicate it on another piano because your hands are used to your home tiny piano. Would you take your piano with you everytime you want to play ? At a piano bar ? At music school ? This idea is kinda silly.
@@brickmanbroke4788 There are groups trying to get the industry to implement this. There is currently only one brand that makes shorter scale pianos and they cost over $25,000, so not ideal
I can tell you as someone who is just learning piano “normal hands” would be using both hands no matter how close the notes are together or all my fingers tangled in knots to hit the ungodly 3 different keys at once
Rachmaninov is terrifying. My orchestra teacher had us have multiple of his pieces written for string players, and me being a beginner, was terrified. It was great fun tho lol
@@ValkyRiver that’s a really good idea! Right now I cannot afford another a new keyboard, but eventually, I will definitely get a custom synth that’s narrower. Also, I don’t have time to practice as much as I should be.
I used to have great pianist hands. I had a 50° angle I could stretch my thumb to hit keys. I broke the left third of my right thumb and hand in half and I had to have it pinned down to the other bones to hold it in place and casted and I lost 10° and now my left hand is 50° my right hand is 40°. I wish it was the other way around so I could play melodies easier :/ you never truly realize the extent of how far you take certain things for granted, until they’re suddenly taken away. Even a measly 10° I had to completely re-teach myself how to play.
Where is this angle measured from? The wrist? Between thumb knuckles? …okay I think this is one of those things where having hitchhiker’s thumb is impeding my visualisation haha
Now, see, my hands like to do this thing called bones, and bones normally prohibit me from existing near songs more complicated than Mary Had a Little Lamb. Absolutely wonderful when I want to play something. Such a joy.
When I first started playing the piano, I could barely play an octave. Now my hand span reaches nine and was quite happy until I saw what a normal pianist's hand could reach 🧐 OMG 😂
Idk about the people in the comments but for sure mine didn't grow at all. My non musician friends and I have the same size and that too their fingers r longer and palms smaller. My palms r larger and fingers shorter.
It’s not that they “grow” in terms of size, it’s just that the more you play, the more flexible your fingers become, and the easier those intervals seem
@@barquers Just don't play too much each day. You can overdo it, not giving your hands time to rest and recover. Take good care of your hands and forearms especially.
@@algrayson8965 It’s just like any exercise, and I absolutely agree that you can overdo it, and should take precautions not to. I was only saying that, like any exercise, the more you do it, the easier it becomes
Playing piano since my little childhood really helped my hand flexibility. My hand is kinda bigger or normal to the other ones, but its super flexible that i can reach C-F normally, while my friends who have bigger hands cant.
I am an average pianist and can only go from C-D. Tried playing Liszt pieces. It was too much for me at first then I have injured my fingers as well. Too bad that I can only be agile with my small hands. But still playing some Liszt pieces (rarely) Etude No.6 Var.11 😢 . But I am already happy that I can play Chpin Etudes, Nocturne and Waltz.
well I passed my grade 8 at 17years old but can only reach a 9th(14semitone is comfortable) 15semitone only possible when is eflat to gflat and is uncomfortable, reach don't matter,it is passion and patience which made me the pianist I am p.s. if you have small hands then free up your wrist and swing it along as you play, it is superior to waving your hand side by side inorder to reach bigger chords.
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The worst thing is being a tiny handed pianist that loves Rachmaninoff. It's like shooting for the stars but you barely breach the atmosphere 😭
Why is this so funny hahaha 🤣🤣
I play like bugs bunny, use my ears if I gotta.
You’d be lucky to leave the troposphere
Girl same. It hurts to live
Perfectly said
Remember that even with “normal hands”, the pedal is your friend.
Sure, as long as you know how to use it properly.
Yes indeed! Be friends with the pedal!
Me with a keyboard and small hands💀
Nooooo, not for beginners it's their total downfall! 😆
@@TrebleSum stepping on pedal like a car's gas pedal intensities
Pianists with tiny hands: I call this one ✨the jUmP✨
As a male with smaller hands an sausage fingers this is me all the time.
I feel mildly attacked
It's true tho lmao
Sustain
@@AcuariosAb This is the key
This. It’s so tragic lol. Not only that, but I have the daintiest fingers ever so I can have a lot of trouble with dynamics and not missing notes (because I didn’t press hard enough). I’ve gotten so good at jumping now tho i can land some very weird ones
Tiny pianist hands reaching an octave on staccato be like: broken pinky and a cramp.
I CAN'T- 🤣
Me crying in tiny pianist hands that can only reach an octave
Same, sometimes my teacher wouldn't give me the pieces she wanted me to play because i couldn't even reach an octave back then 🤦♀️
Sameeeeee
I know that you would probably want to try out narrow keys
ME TOO LOL
I arrive c1 to f2
C-F is impressive I can only reach and hit E
Yeah! Samee
C-E gang let's gooo
I can only reach D 😔✋
@@stinkyboy same 😔🖐️
@@stinkyboy Same, I have shortish fingers, which isn't nice for playing Moonlight Sonata. :)
same C-E but just barely
Bro forgot to mention my man Liszt who expects an average pianist to be able to reach a C on one piano and an E on a piano on the other side of the planet
LOL - good one :) 😋
Liszt expects people to have three hands
There is an urban legend here in Austria (where Liszt was from) that he had this little web between the thumb and the index finger cut so he could reach more keys 😅
@@annanascht_5824 If I remember my Music History correctly, Liszt did do that, despite getting warnings from others, but it ended up making it more difficult to play, and he couldn't use that hand fully for the rest of his life.
哈哈哈～好主意😊
is good idea 🎉
Me, a pianist: reaches C-D
My friend, not a pianist: C-F
Me, who wants to play Rach 2: Cries in pianist
Sometimes I just wish my hands were a bit longer so I can hit a 9th without having to break my fingers in the process 💀
SAME IM ALSO C TO D😭😭
Liszt didn’t have fingers, he had tentacles instead
Like Davy Jones on the organ 😂🐙
@@erusseestelinya Omg LOL😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤨
I readed that as testicles💀
@@4YUNJ1N Real 😂😂😂
Nah dude, Rachminoff had fingers on his abdomen and forearms
lol
Lol so true
mans jus sleeps on the piano to hit notes💀
Eugh
😂😂
as a baby-hands-C-C pianist, those rachmaninoff chords end up a lil jazzy
Please try narrow keys, you’ll love it!
@@ValkyRiver Bruh you don't even give instructions of how to join PASK
Supposedly Rachmaninov was able to play a C-G-C-E-G chord.
A *what* .
Im proud to say i can do the C-G-C-E chord. A bit short of the G though (understatement)
He made that up lol.
He probably could have done C-G-C-F though. That’s reasonable for anyone with decent sized hands
@@earlem9771 I dont see why C-G-C-E-G isn't possible if C-G-C-F is. Ive even seen people hit a C-G-C-F rather comfortably..
@@a_lonely_wyvern maybe it is possible if you have the hands of Shaq
When I was born, the first thing my grandmother noticed about me was my fingers.
She said "that girl's gonna play Rachmaninoff someday".
She was right. :)
I like this a lot❤😂
I have arachnodactyly.. I should probably play piano xD
That is so cute
Jealous
@@a_diamond You should. But if there's no coordination between the fingers, it's just a bunch of long Spidey legs lol
I've played over 25 years (most of my life) and can barely reach an octave. 😭
How
Small hand problems! I’ve been playing for 20 years and can’t go any higher than a full octave
@@nietzschesncream8833 damn, i feel sorry for you.
@@nietzschesncream8833 You know nowadays they make custom sized keys for every hand size, right?
Just get a custom size keyboard with narrower keys and yo're good to go, takes a couple hours to re-adjust but you gain a lifetime free of stress and insecurity. ✌️
My rather small piano teacher really eliminated all of my excuses when playing😭 "I can't play this it's to far apart" And she just casually plays it with a hand half the size of mine 😅
HOW?????
@@samtian5940 jumping in the speed of thousands of hours of practice
@@samtian5940 You can also roll into parts that are too hard to reach, turning them into what are essentially grace notes. If you play them fast enough, they're hardly noticeable. This sometimes means starting slightly ahead of the beat in order to end up with your final note on the beat if you're rolling a chord or anything that's above an octave, such as a 13th. When I say roll, I mean taking your thumb and making a rounded motion with the rest of your hand until you reach the higher note. It's not quite the same as just jumping, but creates similar results. It's usually more effective if you need to play 3 or more notes.
Hope that helps.
i literally just looked up "i can't play this it's too far apart" song, and couldn't find any results. then i came back to this comment and realized how stupid i was being🤣
@@BettyAlexandriaPride oh god 😭
My piano teacher always finds a way for my small child fingers to be able to stretch those god forsaken chords
**tiny-handed pianists have left the chat**
😂
ikr,, i cannot even reach c-c
@@yuki.713damn, c-c is my limit
@@Sholver*tip play songs where you need to stretch your fingers*
@@liesbethdewild-vandam8923 WTH bro 😭
i can barely reach C-C and i'm a pianist, IMAGINE SEEING THIS- 💀
Same🥲 I can only BARELY reach an octave
I must have have big hands cause i reach an easy octave and i'm 13
@@eltea1 I’m 13 too and my max is a perfect octave c-c
@@eltea1 bruh I'm 13 too but I can reach C - E
I can reach c-b just barely
Me as guitarist: alright lemme stretch up *reaches hand from high E to low E*
Which is why I never even attempted piano. Gimme dem strings! 🎸🎻🪕
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I don't know, that's a little wild
The smiles on the other players tells me they couldn’t believe this either
I’m missing a few fingertips, the doctor said when I was born “he’s not going to be a pianist but he’ll be fine” I now play rachmoninoff lol
Well no he didn’t
Nice!
I need to SEE that !!! 😀
I too play Rachmaninoff...on youtube
@@___HH___ go elsewhere to be mean. Begin with the mean person in your mirror, until you learn your lesson to be no a##h#le 😎
I swear half of the piano memes I see on the internet are about Rachmaninoff’s hands
It's true. My hand span's 9 notes but my jumps are like the jumps of a disoriented tree frog. There's no way I can play Rachmaninoff in another 5 years.
Rachmaninoff's handspan was C-F (an 18th) or 2 octaves plus a fourth!
Or the whole "I bought the whole piano so blah blah blah" about Litzt or Chopin.
@@LucasMLopes26 🤦♀️🤦♀️ physically impossible
Narrow keys
plot twist: rachmaninoff didnt have large hands, he had a small piano
True
Around 70% of pianists are not playing on an instrument that fits their hands. The current standard fitted Liszt and Rachmaninoff.
- Agreed, in the letters written in Mozarts hand he's aware that his hand were "small" however, the clavier at that time was petite, not the pianos we have today so it wasn't an issue for him, so we who are octave challenged are in good company.!
Sometimes I look at a music sheet and I'm like "what... huh, guess I'll need to do this one with my toe then-"
meanwhile i can only reach an octave and barely a 9th 😭
Mozart has/had smaller hands than you so you're fine :-)
@@charlesthomas5956well, I've heard that they had a smaller size of the piano once, so Mozart could have used this but I'm not sure (btw manufacturers could easily adjust the size of the piano now, I'm often thinking this solution would be so easy lol)
@@katttttt Yeah ik that
Same 😂
LMAO SAMEE
Tom and Jerry in that one episode where Tom plays the piano be like:
When you've been playing piano for years and your hands are only "normal" 😭
same im literally a guy and i struggle to reach one more than an octave like C-D
@@luvluh how is this relatable? i can do that too
@@kianvivo7938 bro i'm just barely reaching an octave. small hands for a guy ;-;
@@keizee100 its quite a surprise you have small hands, ive played piano for a year now and i can reach just about C - Eb, my hands are pretty big for an 11 yr old. My friends consider me as the 11 yr old Rachminaoff lol
@@kianvivo7938 wow, that's crazy impressive. Also, i realized something today after going up against the piano. If I simply *lay* my outstretched hands on the keys, I reach 9 keys (octave +1), but then I also realized that my 7 year old sister can play 7 keys, and reach 8 keys outstretched. She's 7... I'm 17... double her age ;-;
How your hand looks reaching C-F is how my hand looks just trying to reach an octave 🥲 small handed pianists unite
Same for me for c-e. But how would these barely there extensions help during real playing?
because you are a girl obviously
I have been playing piano for about 7 years and I can only reach from C - D (next octave)
same😭
Same
No I thought the same octave
same!
Me too, i have a short pinky :(
I dont think it really depends on being a piano player or not, its just if you have big hands or tiny hands.
For the most part yes but playing piano probs makes it easier to reach those intercals
It’s both really. Playing the piano helps train your hands to stretch further, but of course it will always help to have big hands, I’ve been playing for years and I can only get as far as a 9th (from C to D)
@@salandit7461 Totally agree, when I started I could barely do C-E and now after a few months I can do C-G
@@danijelgasparic3658 that’s impressive man!
I've been playing for years and.....it was just genetics curse :). C-C here ( was always able to do so) and C-D is just grazing over D if...there aren't any notes in between to be played by the other fingers.
Amateurs, I can reach C-G when I was a kid
...an octave below
555
nice growtopia pfp 👍
They got us in the first half ngl
bro the growtopia pfp in a top comment
A Can just do c-e. I have little hand?
i can only reach until D
ima just say
it doesn’t matter how long you have been experienced with piano, it depends on how big your hands are, I’ve been playing for 6 years, and I can only go up to C#- Eb
Exactly!
Can you play la campannella?
@@Ghostyyy.21. you ask it as if it the camapanella was easy😂
@@jakecamilton7951 Yeah, he said he has been playing for 6 years. And I have been playing for 6-7 months and I can play Turkish March, Fur Elise, starting of fantaise impromptu, and starting of la campannella
@@Ghostyyy.21. try Chopin's etudes. Good way to train technique.
To reach a high note you don't only need big hands or long fingers, but having flexibility is a big factor
Same with playing guitar. The best players aren't the ones with the biggest hands or the longest fingers, it's the ones whose fingers are most flexible.
Your reach is determined almost exclusively by the size of your hands. It makes no difference how flexible you are if your fingers aren't long enough to reach. Stretching might help you reach one more key, maybe two if you were extremely tight, but that's it. Flexibility will never help you play 12ths.
@@Adelicows The only way to effectively increase your hand span is to play on a narrower keyboard
this is sadly simply not the case
@@Epic501 what is?
The world needs smaller sized keyboards. It's the piano which needs to fit your hand, the piano is the instrument.
There are some custom made pianos for small handed pianists to reach 9th and 10th notes but don't know where you can buy one :D if you really interested you should check it out
Finally someone who realizes this! God bless Steinbuhler.
The difficulty would be fitting the strings, hammers and tuning nuts. Reducing the size of these would completely change the sound from that of a piano to something that kinda reminds of a piano.
@@SevdalijaDamir David Steinbuhler has found a way to fit a narrow keyboard to the strings of a normal sized piano. Only the action changes.
What is the meaning of learning all your repertoire on your tiny piano from home, and you can never replicate it on another piano because your hands are used to your home tiny piano. Would you take your piano with you everytime you want to play ? At a piano bar ? At music school ? This idea is kinda silly.
Playing for over 10 years. Still, I can only reach c-c.
I wish my finger will be longer🥲.
Don't give up.
Scriabin had troubles with 8ths, and he still was a great pianist !
Take a pen
they should make smaller pianos for smaller hands so they fit. you don't see a runner wear a size 15 shoe when he's a size 10
why longer
@@brickmanbroke4788 There are groups trying to get the industry to implement this. There is currently only one brand that makes shorter scale pianos and they cost over $25,000, so not ideal
Rip I’ll never be able to do C-F I got tiny hands 😭
You can do an octave below
Yes you will. Just play on a smaller keyboard :)
Truly underrated. I must agree with ranmsa
There are only two things I want as a pianist. Abnormally large hands and perfect pitch (I can only reach a ninth) :(
I can barely just hit a tenth but it's such a beautiful voicing just so hit-and-miss when I play!
lifes not fair dude
Haha the sound of the straw clicking at the end was also a C
Perfect pitch mfs be like
i feel like its closer to a b
perfect pitch gang on top
@@hat_cbw6972 yeah it’s somewhere between a C and a B
perfect pitch gang lmao
C TO F?!?! I’m so jealous I can barely reach a C 😭
Your height?
Do you want to try playing on a smaller keyboard?
Bro I’ve been playing for 6-7 years and the most I can reach is a major 10
I can barely reach a 9th :'(
I like your funni words magic man
@@matstan3515 dang that’s tuff
I've been playing for five and I don't even know what that means..
@@zh.6795 Bruh
Yup im a pianist hand, but also because i was a keyboard student, i still feel the pain from it
I can tell you as someone who is just learning piano “normal hands” would be using both hands no matter how close the notes are together or all my fingers tangled in knots to hit the ungodly 3 different keys at once
Rachmaninov is terrifying. My orchestra teacher had us have multiple of his pieces written for string players, and me being a beginner, was terrified. It was great fun tho lol
Some wide chords that are in rachmaninoff pieces are supposed to be played after with the sustain pedal so that it sounds like a complete chord.
For now I reach C-D2 without much problems, but like a few months ago I was still level 1
Who else went straight to their piano after watching this video to see how far they can reach?
I was only able to reach do - re 😭
@@Just_lazuli calling it "do re" kills my braincells
@@folkert2938 Idk, do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do sounds prettier than just using letters
@@Just_lazuli I guess beginners call it that
@@folkert2938 yeah, no, people who speak romance languages call it that. Not everything revolves around Germanic terms and systems
Rachmaninoff is the one man that people got inspiration from to create the legend of slenderman
💀💀
and Edward Scissorhands
C to F!? I can’t even reach C to E and I’ve been playing piano for 5 years.
I can reach C to E and I'm 13
Do you want to try playing on a narrow keyboard?
@@ValkyRiver that’s a really good idea! Right now I cannot afford another a new keyboard, but eventually, I will definitely get a custom synth that’s narrower. Also, I don’t have time to practice as much as I should be.
C-F is fascinating, I barely reach E
Guitarists can relate lol
I used to have great pianist hands. I had a 50° angle I could stretch my thumb to hit keys. I broke the left third of my right thumb and hand in half and I had to have it pinned down to the other bones to hold it in place and casted and I lost 10° and now my left hand is 50° my right hand is 40°. I wish it was the other way around so I could play melodies easier :/ you never truly realize the extent of how far you take certain things for granted, until they’re suddenly taken away. Even a measly 10° I had to completely re-teach myself how to play.
Same boat, different story. I lost more than 10° though in my right thumb. Can't do anything much now. Even handwriting is difficult. It's hard 💔
Where is this angle measured from? The wrist? Between thumb knuckles?
…okay I think this is one of those things where having hitchhiker’s thumb is impeding my visualisation haha
What you're not supposed to lose any Mobility like that...
The hands are much bigger than mine. My fingers can reach 9 degrees.
Rachmaninoff’s been real quiet since Tom became a pianist.
Now, see, my hands like to do this thing called bones, and bones normally prohibit me from existing near songs more complicated than Mary Had a Little Lamb. Absolutely wonderful when I want to play something. Such a joy.
I’m already stretching my luck on the A-B in Moonlight Sonata. 😏
You probably want to try a narrow keyboard?
@@sommerwillis5648 you can play over an octave on a narrower keyboard
not me with small hands struggling going from c-c
The only struggle in Liebestraum for me is my "normal" hands lol
I can't even reach the c-c 💀
this is so real as a pianist JSKSKSKSK 😭😭😭
That one Tom & Jerry episode 💀😭
as someone with big hands and is a pianist, i can confirm that is what my pinky finger looks like
Kid pianists like me can often barely stretch an octave.
I'm a kid pianist and i can barely reach a C-E (Im almost 11 and i can do that. Idk how)
I guess I’m a normal person and not a pianist
I can barely reach e without mashing everything else
I made it to C-F somehow on my piano🤣
Me crying in guitar trying to figure out who this guy is
When I first started playing the piano, I could barely play an octave. Now my hand span reaches nine and was quite happy until I saw what a normal pianist's hand could reach 🧐 OMG 😂
The last one is caled ✨how my music teacher wantd to have my hands✨
bro my hands are small and i can hardly make it c-c 😭
Do you want to try playing on a narrow keyboard?
I’m a 5’1 pianist, C-A 😭
I feel you 😭 I can reach an octave if I controt my hand to be on the side of they keys, on top I can get like a 6th max
My very opened hand reaches C-C. Very small hands I have
I'm a pianist, but my hands are C-E max... My hands are too small.😅
gonna just say I’ve been playing the piano since I was 6, yet I can still only reach C - Eb
I am 13, yet I can almost reach C - F
@@Ghostyyy.21. you don’t even need big hands just stretchy ones
@@anus7407 Yeah right
I'm 15 Max C-C
@@Ghostyyy.21. it's true though.
i can only go from c to b my hands are small grade 8
Rach's hands truly THAT massive!
Wow epic!!!
As a pianist who can stretch maximum to a minor tenth, I accept defeat
Try a narrower keyboard
I've been playing piano for around 7 years but I can only reach from c to b :(
i’ve been playing for like 6 year and s a m e- i have such small hands it’s sad
L
@@arctica3037 the average twitter user:
This is absolutely correct like bruh what
I’m a kid but my teacher love torturing me and se always give me things that aren’t fit for my tiny hands😭😪
Hand size doesn't matter, scriabin reached only 1 octave
For real???????
@@diom00 yeah
@@diom00 people always tout Rachmaninoff as the one with impossibly big chords but that honor really should go to scriabin.
@@benrolfe8490 and because of that, Scriabin couldn’t play some of his own pieces.
@@ValkyRiver he guided others to treasures he could not himself possess :-(
Rachmaninoff as actually an eldritch horror summoned to tame the piano beast
Nah a normal person who doesn’t play piano can’t reach a full octave
I can!!! Lol
pretty sure most musicians can, I play violin and viola and can do a minor 9th
Cap
I barley play piano and I can reach c-e
@@oshit31 barley 😋
Me with tiny hands who can only reach c to d
Bs I can only confidently hit a 9th, 10th if its a slow song or I have time to set it up. Wish I had man hands
Hands can’t grow from piano or violin it’s just genetics lol
Idk about the people in the comments but for sure mine didn't grow at all. My non musician friends and I have the same size and that too their fingers r longer and palms smaller. My palms r larger and fingers shorter.
It’s not that they “grow” in terms of size, it’s just that the more you play, the more flexible your fingers become, and the easier those intervals seem
Yup just get more flexible. I can do finger splits😁
@@barquers Just don't play too much each day. You can overdo it, not giving your hands time to rest and recover. Take good care of your hands and forearms especially.
@@algrayson8965 It’s just like any exercise, and I absolutely agree that you can overdo it, and should take precautions not to. I was only saying that, like any exercise, the more you do it, the easier it becomes
I would consider myself a pianist but i can only reach C-C
@colie is cool like a year and 3 months
Playing piano since my little childhood really helped my hand flexibility. My hand is kinda bigger or normal to the other ones, but its super flexible that i can reach C-F normally, while my friends who have bigger hands cant.
this piano is bussing as hell
My hand is so smol
Mine can go till G with a lot of stretching😂😂
When you end up going through C-X without having reach💨💀
I am an average pianist and can only go from C-D.
Tried playing Liszt pieces. It was too much for me at first then I have injured my fingers as well. Too bad that I can only be agile with my small hands.
But still playing some Liszt pieces (rarely) Etude No.6 Var.11
😢 .
But I am already happy that I can play Chpin Etudes, Nocturne and Waltz.
the trick is precision in the attack range.
I can barely even play an octave note
bro i remember being in elementary when c-c was a stretch 😂
I can go C-D 😭
Rachmaninoff’s hands are GIGANTIC!
well I passed my grade 8 at 17years old but can only reach a 9th(14semitone is comfortable) 15semitone only possible when is eflat to gflat and is uncomfortable, reach don't matter,it is passion and patience which made me the pianist I am
p.s. if you have small hands then free up your wrist and swing it along as you play, it is superior to waving your hand side by side inorder to reach bigger chords.