Then they move to the piano to work on finger exercises and assigned music.

I shouted, as I began the finger exercise yet again.

Ending with a simple, badly played fingering exercise, he made his point.

He gave up on tunes for the evening and went back to sixteenth-century finger exercises.

He also writes poetry, but views it as a "mere finger exercise."

Try other treatments instead, such as finger exercises, physical therapy, or steroid shots.

True, he hadn't been reduced to a stinking pool of lava, but what could you expect from a finger exercise?

You're really crazy-and we are supposed only to make some kind of finger exercises, slow glissandos that go on for over 20 minutes?

These finger exercises struck me as amusingly anthropomorphic games.

I began a finger exercise in C. No point playing in a difficult key if my enemy had a poor sense of pitch.

I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists - after the first few minutes my digits were dead!

You'll need to do finger exercises.

His method books still in use today, and include duets, etudes, studies, finger exercises, scales, etc.

Teasing her for the hours she spent on finger exercises and attempting to "understand" the harmonics of odd off-world music.

Usually it was scales, arpeggios; finger exercises.

His book offers a wealth of pleasurable activities which have been seized upon by teachers as the 'five finger exercises' of creative drama.

He curled up with his back against the headboard, the bottle and mug in easy reach, and began practicing those damned finger exercises.

Vanyel leaned back on his dusty cushions, and forced his aching hand to run through the fingering exercise yet again.

The next year he directed Peter Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise.

The guitar line for the song was written by Kerry Livgren as a finger exercise for learning fingerpicking.

Her first major role was at the age of 16, in a play called Five Finger Exercise, as "Pamela Harrington".

"I don't believe you," I said, starting the finger exercise again and hoping Master Disease would evaporate into greasy black smoke pretty soon.

While he waited, Leto did the hand and finger exercises of his Bene Gesserit inheritance.

"It's a little mind-numbing when she practices technique, but I've learned to wear ear plugs for catfights, fog horns, and finger exercises."

Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer.