Sophia Hang in there
Boring lessons are for our own good (or so they try to tell us)
Reminds me of my mother: Food that doesn't taste delicious is healthy! Always!
Sophia Do you mean the same way Bart suggested - one hand soft and the other normal volume? Or both faint?
I don't know what Bart suggested (didn't read all forum). But it makes sense to play faint with the one hand you feel the strain. And then you should play more faint with the other hand, too. Otherwise, it starts to sound bad. Anyway, it is a good exercise - if you play chords with LH (3 or 4 notes at the same time) and a simple one finger melody with RH, you run into the problem that LH is droning the melody out.