Training your eyes to overcome technical challenges with ease!
Many of use struggle with certain technical challenges (octaves/leaps/wide spans/contrary motion) and spend so much time practicing them! But what if you are aren't maximizing one of your best tools to overcome these challenges - your eyes! Learn about strategies and tips on what to being look for - today!
NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 12PM PACIFIC TIME!
Follow this event link to tune in!
https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/pno-using-eyes-to-overcome-challenges
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
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I struggle with getting to the highest and lowest keys just when I am playing whatever. The closer the notes are to middle C, the more accurate I am. Also, playing octaves encompassing larger intervals such as a 4th or 5th are not as easy as moving from keys a 2nd or a 3rd apart. Thanks for asking.
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I am far-sighted and need to wear glasses when sight-reading piano music. Because of vision impairment, my sight reading ability, which used to be good, has declined. How can I train myself to look ahead, and how far ahead should one look when sight reading?
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Chopin's prelude in E-flat major no 19 presents significant problems with needing to make wide leaps at a fast tempo. Any suggestions regarding vision for accurately reading and playing this challenging work?
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Invitation said it starts on 7pm UTC which is 2pm EST. But it seems delayed by an hour.
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Victoria Macdonald apologies: the stream is delayed an hour! 3pm EST
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Dominic Cheli Thank you for bringing this very good topic up for discussion! I wholeheartedly agree with everything you say.
There's definitely a 3rd eye in our brain that can be developed over time.
In regards to Andras Schiff playing with his eyes closed, I doubt he's doing it to "enjoy the music more" as you've put it, but rather focussing on sound would make him play better! So much of playing should be about listening - matching of the tone color etc.
I've been fortunate enough to attend many of his concert sitting on the front row on the right side (mainly I'm curious about his pedaling). I won't say that he keep his eyes closed the entire time, certainly at trickier sections he definitely use his eyes to help him.
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Thank you, Dominic, for this wonderful Lesson! It is so valuable to be able to watch the video from the archives!
