Do you feel frustrated at your slow sight reading levels?
Don't you wish you could do what the pros do
to easily and quickly play through songs without much practice?
Hi guys, it's Jazer your piano teacher and
in this lesson, I'm going to share with you
a really cool sight reading hack that I invented
that includes this piece of cloth.
This piece of cloth
is going to increase your sight reading level by five times.
So stick around and let's find out how.
Sight reading is a really tricky skill
that many people here struggle with.
Including myself.
If you can relate,
comment the word "Me"
down below.
I've taught piano for many years
and I see that students continue to struggle with this problem
because they sight read the wrong way.
Here's one of the greatest tips I have for you,
when you are sight reading on the piano.
Stop
looking
at
your
hands!
Now, this was a game changer for me.
I started realizing looking at your hands was a big problem
when I realized,
that when I was looking at the sheet music
and I looked down at my hands to find
where things were
and I looked back up again
and look down and look up and look down.
I
Kept needing to agonizingly find,
which part of the music I got up to
and this just made the whole process really slow
and laggy.
I couldn't keep in time with the music
and it just ties your brain out so much.
You might be wondering why piano students
look at their hands when they sight read.
There's a very good reason for that.
They are trying to find assurance by looking at the fingers
because they don't want to play the wrong stuff.
So it comes from a good place.
However,
if you do want to take your sight reading to that next level,
you do have to try
to force yourself
to not look at your hands.
You want to be able
to build that good spatial awareness
and
to free your brain up, to
look straight at the music
and to see which bits of music are coming up
so that you can get to those parts in time
and not
do this sort of up, down, up, down thing
and to have the whole music played really, really
laggy and slowly and with a whole bunch of stops.
Okay, I see students doing this all the time, right?
So they're looking at this sheet music and
for example here
they see a B.
So they,
they look down at your hands to get that first B,
which is fair enough.
You know, you want to get your first note,
but then
they sort of keep doing this sort of up and down thing,
up, down, up, down...
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and then they get super frustrated.
What I want you to try to do
is
to
get to this E
without looking.
So looking straight up.
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As opposed to doing this.
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Okay, time for the good stuff.
Let's see how this piece of cloth
is going to help improve our sight reading by five times.
Now,
here's what I'd like you to do.
I would like you
to put
one side of it
and
tuck that into your shirt like this.
And then,
with the other side,
I would like you to tuck that
into the piano.
Now, I've got a grand piano here,
so this just goes behind the lid.
If you have an upright piano or digital piano,
you will have to just find some other way to clip it in.
And I'm going to
sight read this piece,
without looking at my hands.
So I'm going to be sight reading
this piece
from the Disney's jazz book.
"Everybody wants to be a cat."
Let's see how this goes.
So maybe I'll just try and quickly
find my first spot
before I start.
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And let's see how this goes.
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ERRGHH! [Music]
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Okay, and that's how it works.
So this is the end of the lesson today.
I'm quite interested at how you go with this.
So go and try it.
And leave
your comments down in the comments below
about how you went with it.
Did you like it,
did it work,
did it not work,
Let me know.
If you're interested to learn more about sight reading,
go and click on my
sight reading video where I did
three tips on how you can quickly master
and improve your sight reading.
I'm Jazer, subscribed to this channel
for more awesome piano lessons and tutorials,
and I'll catch you in the next one.
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