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Finger "Ticks"

Author: elizabethm
Date: 2014-01-02 04:15

My clarinet teacher calls them ticks... I dont know if anyone on here has developed finger or hand issues like this:

In the last few months, my right hand has been becoming really problematic. It started out as just a slight hesitation when I had to put my middle finger down in a fast downward C scale. Now, I'm at the point that I can't even trill between my index and middle fingers. I've started watching in a mirror to see what is going on. My fingers look and feel relaxed, but my middle finger just doesn't like to come down to the clarinet when it's supposed to... or if it does, it doesn't come down enough.

My clarinet teacher has said to just relax and practice trilling A to A#, E to F, and C# to D really slowly, but it's not helping. I'm playing the Mozart concerto right now, and it's really getting in the way of learning it. I feel like I'm relaxed, but it's still not working. My teacher has tried to figure out what's going on, but she isn't sure what else to do to help me with it. :(

I'm not sure what's causing it. I have some tendonitis issues because I also study piano, and I do sometimes have to play with a wrist brace when I play clarinet. My teacher thinks this could be making my hand become really tense... but, all my other fingers are working fine. I don't know why my middle finger won't work right.

Have any of you ever had problems like this? How do you begin to deal with it? It's scaring me a lot, which is probably making it worse.

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