Goes down, it goes down and not like tense or anything it is completely relaxed. Now, the problem is this, are my hands relaxed? Do you believe her? You are probably thinking, “Is this guy crazy?” Yes! Slightly.
So that is obviously not relaxed, now what about this? Does this look relaxed to you? No, right I am plugging them now, before I was pushing them up now, I am pulling them, so it is using the top muscles to push out here, and I am using bottom muscles or your fore arm to pull in here. When we are doing this, we are tensing up the muscles; you are just stressing the tendon. If you play like this, we are not relaxed because we are pulling in our fingers. And what that does is it tenses up the bottom part of your arm, the bottom part of your fore arm. It tenses the tendon right here.
One of the fundamental ways to avoid tendonitis according to the, I can not remember his name, he had a PhD on all other crap and he is a professor at some university in the States, I think Virginia or something, and he headed up in some department about physiological thanks to people who are playing musical instruments and stuffs like that. Anyway, one of the key things is that you do not want 2 muscles fighting each other and starting a commotion.
So think of 2 huge guys, that are like clones, my name is Claud, and this guy, my name is Rex. So Rex and Claud are going to have a little tag of war here. This guy is just pulling and the other guy is also pulling and they are pulling apart with the big huge rope. Pulling and pulling and guess what, they are not going anywhere. They are just going to stay, they are like gays. So eventually, after they are pulling and they are not getting anywhere because they are exactly equal, what is going to happen? What is going to break eventually? If both are equal, both will get tired equally and the only thing that will take the stress is the rope. So, changes into human terms, each muscle group on the top and the bottom are like the 2 big buff guys. They are pulling tag of war, so if one of these guys is pulling here and one is pulling here, then the stress goes to the tendon. And what happens to the tendon on molecular level is it actually starts shredding and getting holes in it and then ripping apart and kind a like unraveling, just like the rope almost into it. And then what happens is you got a brain sensation on it hurts to move and it is really-really bad. And then the worst part is, because your tendons do not get much circulation from blood, it takes really-really long time for them to heal, because the blood does not go out enough to circulate and all of other stuff.
So what happens is, it takes a ling time, you have to stop because any motion just tags it and then slowly it heals over but it forms in scar tissues, so you have little scar tissue spots all through out your tendons and they do not get away very easily. Then what happens is if you try to do it again because the scar tissues are very strong compared to close there originally, you go around and you play again in the same fashion you did before that caused it and its going to shred and rip the tissue will just fall out and then you will be back to square one again. It is like a continuous cycle and it just down states people.
That is caused by excess stress on the tendons or too much tension. When we play records like this to much then we are pulling in with this muscle in the bottom. Now, when we are asked to lift our fingers up to play, so we are curving and lifting, what happens is, we are trying to hold the finger curve with this muscle and then we are trying to pull up, while we pull with this muscles, so what is happening is the top muscles pull in that and this muscle is pulling down and then the only thing left is the tendon.
So it would not might hurt to do it ones ore twice or a hundred times, but when you get it to higher levels of piano, guess what, I think it was 28,000 something odd, repetitions per hour that a piano player on high levels averagely doing. So that is 28,000 times that you are going to do it in an hour. And some people play like, 4 or 5 hours at that high level, so what do you think is going to happen if it is not good for you.
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