I Invented a Crazy Sightreading Hack
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2019
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In this piano lesson, I share with you a crazy sight-reading hack that I invented to help students improve! The hack is revealed at 2:35 but I recommend you watch the intro before that too so that this video will make sense to you!
This hack DOES NOT magically make your sight-reading professional level overnight. You still need to put in the work.
Keep practising with your hands covered up and watch how your sight-reading improves TREMENDOUSLY as you begin to be able to sight-read without looking at your hands!!!
Try it and let me know how it goes in the comments down below! :)
wait. increase my sight reading by 5 times?
5x0... uh oh.
lol
So funny! How about 5 X -1 ???
RIFamily -5
I was feeling discouraged with my sight reading skills and this comment made me laugh. 😂
You mean 5x1083567458265429764576526576856294237534647832946766376835203576432067487835023204763204363262620962632963209736325720753291247964
For me it’s more like getting a cloth so I can use it to wipe my tears off because of how much of a disgrace I am.
same im doing my sight reading test today and I'm so scared and you dont know how scared i am my dad isn't here to record at this moment but he's coming soon and he doesn't know how much stress I'm going through. Ive never been good at reading notes. this year is the first year I'm doing sight reading. Im so afraid that i might fail and disappoint my dad. I dont feel comfortable doing sight reading and I'm holding back tears rn.
Edit: I failed. I feel so bad for my dad after him spending a lot of time with me on it :(
@@Minghui8170 how did it go?
@@RandomPerson-hd9sb i think i failed. I feel so bad for my dad. he spend days with me trying to get better at sight-reading. but when the test really came I freaked out and I don't think I did well. I feel so disappointed in myself.
@FanciestSam
As soon as you did your best, it's okay, things will always get better if you keep practicing, and you just need more time, don't give up, not just for your dad, but yourself as well. You are capable.
Hey! Don.t say that to yourself. You are trying, you are looking up videos that can help. That's so far from being a disgrace. Keep playing. ❣️
When I see my younger students looking at their hands I ask them if they look at there hands when they play a console to which they answer “no” so this helps them understand to trust themselves to play without looking down.
I love it
Me
mydeafminute very true. The point I’m trying to bring across is trust your hands learn to navigate through a song.
but its a bit discouraging when you keep hitting the wrong note. but im forced to do ot cuz i dont have 4 eyes
I'm handy at Apex Legends.
I’ve been playing piano for 14 years and I’ve never had the importance of not looking at your hands emphasized. Just tried this trick out on the piece I’m currently working on and holy smokes, this has changed up my piano game for eternity !! Thank you so much !!
Thanks for showing yourself genuinely sight reading and screwing up at times. Persistence in the face of frustration and failure is so, so, so important. Seeing a leader and teacher like you be vulnerable in front of thousands of students is a marvelous teaching tool. It's easier to takes chances, fall down, and get back up when we see our wise elders do it (though you look super young for a "wise elder" [I guess it's true what they say: black don't crack!].) It's also necessary. Thank you as always!
Thank you Jay Ebasic
Thank you Richard Wagon
Thank you Harrison Ebons
well for me it's similar to type on the computer keyboard if you wanna type fast u cant look at the keyboard
Great comment 46lobo1, great analogy!
You still may get kinda fast though. But ofcourse not looking and using ten fingers will always be faster
@@jazerleepiano why don't you upload
Funnily enough I don't look at the keyboard to type but I have to for the piano. The keyboard looks harder than a piano so why ?...
but you don’t need to look up for a computer keyboard
I will try your idea.
I'm surprised your comment wasn't as popular as I expected it to be.
great idea. and it has a second function as a bib at the piano, so now I can eat at the same time. I will use it religiously now.
😂
Life hack: search variations of “I hate simply piano” so TH-cam will stop giving you simply piano ads
or just get an ad blocker
Does this work? I am worried the app advert agressiveness will get worse.👀 I am even afraid of stating their name in this comment lest the algorithm gets confused.
@@politereminder6284 idk my comment was a joke, the best way to stop getting certain ads is to just click on other things and don't show interest in anything related to it
@@perry7003 😅😅😅
I've tried lots of ad blockers with TH-cam. They mostly don't work at all for the TH-cam app but they are helpful for the TH-cam website, though not perfect.
I'm just a beginner here and your tips help me progress quickly. Thank you ♥️. I wear glasses due to poor eye sight so I just want to tell any glass-wearing fellows out there that : Check your eyesight regularly. 😂 When I got a new pair of glasses, my sightreading improved a lot.
damn i wish i could blame my shit sight reading on my poor eye sight, but no i just suck hahaha
I don't know why dont you get more views, your videos are so reliable, TH-cam most be wrong.
Thanks for your words man! Not doing videos for fame or glory anyways. Just trying to help out fellow pianists who encounter the same problems as I do everyday. I appreciate your support heaps :)
@@jazerleepiano Don't stop man, you are doing great 👌 Also I would like to see some of your playing
Tbh, I almost didn’t click because the title and graphic seemed too click-bait-y. If the video hadn’t been short I might have missed out
@@swivellogic just dont look.lol
decades ago a typing teacher in high school made us tape paper over the keyboard to get us to quit looking at our hands. to this day, some forty years later I rarely look at my hands while typing. it's a matter of trusting yourself
I used to play in the dark, to totally test my memorization of a song piece and the ability to find the correct keys without being able to see them. A blind fold would accomplish the same thing, to get better proficient on your piano key knowledge. Once you can do this, it's much easier to sight read without looking down at your hands.
Just discovered your channel and I think that this channel is one of the best musical channels on TH-cam
Thanks man for the advice. It helps so much👍🎼🎹
Thanks for the support LF Productions! You are the best :)
Learn Piano with Jazer Lee thanks man👍
I just started piano and one of the first things I saw on sight reading was this video about 2 months ago. I took it to heart and do not look at my hands, but rather only the sheet. Trying to be disciplined so I do not spend 10 years at this and end up "just okay". I came back to this video again, thanks for the recap. Liked seeing you sightread blind.
Super happy to see new videos coming out. Thank you so much for all the great pointers Jazer Lee!! This is my favorite channel for learning piano. Keep up the great work.
Obviously you are an accomplished piano player with years of experience but you are not afraid of making mistakes and record it when doing the incredibly difficult job of sight reading and publish it as it is. I just wanted you to know that knowing the fact that even YOU could make mistakes while sight reading is a great help and motivation to me and people like me. I appreciate it and I thank you sincerely.
Great
It’s so hard because when I don’t look at my hands, I’m actually pressing the wrong thing. :(
it is normal. it happens. In this case, i move my faulty finger on the next (correct) note without looking at the keyboard so that my brain can register the geography of the keyboard. Cheers
same
You should be able to tell with your ears
@@LoomiYT ur slow
@@LoomiYT You should be able to tell with your tears :D
This was really encouraging to me, as I've just got back into learning the piano at 59 (last lesson probably 45 years ago), and I'm going to work on this idea. As someone else commented already, it's a bit like not looking at a computer keyboard when you're typing. One of the best things I ever did was learn to touch type, which seems impossible at first and does take the same discipline (even covering up keys bit by bit until they have no letters on them anymore). Now I can type almost as fast as I think. Of course it would be a super-human skill to be able to see a note in the top or bottom octave and reach out and hit it, but most of what we play is near the middle and/or progresses by known intervals. It might be fun to close my eyes or wear a blindfold and improvise, trying to imagine the notes under my fingers. However, this is only one half of the equation - the other is actually knowing what the dots are - and I still struggle quite a lot with that. Music notation evolved by all sorts of ad-hoc processes and if we were inventing it again in the 21st Century it would be much easier, I suspect. Notes being different on the treble and bass clefs is the most obvious issue.
👍 Thank you for not editing out mistakes! It makes us not feel so miserable when we make them. I'm looking forward to trying this.
Let me know how it goes T-Marie!
I think she’s still trying it .
It seems so..@@eaglegold3303
hahahaha
@@eaglegold3303
Dude, your channel is fantastic. I'd love to see more.
I think the best part about this demonstration was that the “errors” didn’t sound like mistakes to me, especially because you kept going in time. Honestly, if you hadn’t pointed them out I would have thought them an intentional part of the music. I think this proves very well that looking at the hands is disruptive to musicianship as a whole, and is best eliminated. Thanks for the lesson.
I’ve been doing this for a few weeks and the change has been AMAZING.
You seem like a cool friend to be with, thanks for the video
This is such a great tip. I never thought to cover my hands, but I certainly concentrated on not looking down when I was developing my sight-reading. I originally thought you were going to use the cloth for the technique I developed myself for sightreading, which is to cover the music (I used a piece of paper) and lift it up for just a second, pointing at a chord or measure. I would immediately cover the music and try to play what I remember. This forced me to digest entire blocks of music rather than single notes. Don't know if that would help people, but I've taught this technique before.
I'm going to give that a go too.
Glad you are back! You are such a great teacher 😀. I look forward to more videos.
Thanks heaps thara11! Hope this helps you out :)
First day trying this out and it's already revolutionized my reading. Thanks so much!
You are SO right about looking back and forth from the music to your hands! And the "shroud" is a great idea. You are a good teacher!
I'm trying so hard to do this! One thing I've found has helped is to look at the intervals between notes, rather than the notes themselves. Much easier to work out where that C is if you're aware that you just played the B right below it!
Hi Jazer. Thanks for the great videos. As a beginner, sight reading is challenging but i know eventually it will open up doors to difficult pieces
I've just found your channel and its ace!!
I'm 37 and started learning Piano from scratch in February. It's the first instrument I've ever played and the first time I've attempted to read music. I have my grade 1 arbsm exam in 4 weeks and am in a major spin about the site reading part! I'm going to give this a whirl tomorrow!!
I sat down at my piano to practice today and remembered this hack from watching your video a few days prior and my mind is blown by how much my sight reading has improved. I now feel unstoppable with my progress. Thank you so much.
Glad I found your channel, and super glad you're back! Love from NZ :)
Thanks so much Josh! All the best with your piano progress!
Thanks for the tip!. I always try to go this way and, for me, it depends quite a lot on my confidence level that day... Some days I can play complete pieces (still at a basic level, I am just one and a half year on piano) almost without any mistake, but sometimes it is harder. But what is clear to me is that this is the way to go!
I can relate to that José! Good days and bad days are completely normal. The important thing is to push on through even the tough days :)
Actually I started with the 7 songs you recommended and I just got myself the sheets and by playing them, I just recognized that I just stopped looking at my hands. So this just came naturally. I never been a really good sheet reader. I played the piano at school so when I was about 10 -15 years old and got back to it in my early 30ies. So I am trying to get back to it. I am really thankful for your videos! They really motivate me a lot and help me getting better and I really can improve my playing.
Deciphering is the hardest part of reading for me. I can play fine without looking at my hands. It really is a chore decoding new music or anything with a lot of ideas.
Well done! I think keeping your eyes on the music and the importance of keeping a consistent beat are the two most important things in sight-reading. When these are accomplished, then progress starts to happen!
One of my biggest problems is feeling the rhythm. If I can hear the song played by someone else first it helps loads.
My piano teacher was recently telling me to work on sight-reading.... guess I'll have to try this hack!
SO HELPFUL thank you jazer
Jazer, this is genious!!! Thank you so much!
*saw that piece of cloth
*proceed to check whether it's April fool's day or not
This is really useful, thanks. I've been bumping into this exact issue. I've only been playing for a few months, my sight-reading is pretty good but I keep looking down to find the 'landmarks' on the keyboard and then I lose my place on the score. It hadn't occurred to me to stop looking down ! Sometimes the solution is right under your nose. Thanks Jazer :) Great channel btw.
Glad it helped you Chris! Let me know if this methods works for you
Been trying to not look at hands for the past year. This really helps with the "dyslexic" note misreading.
I can't wait to try this! thank you for sharing!!
Some additional advice - try it at first with pieces that you are intimately familiar with so you know when a wrong note is played. I have been trying to not look at the hands and just use the feel around for the sets of two and three to center my puck, so to speak. It is really difficult but will be worth the effort.
Hopefully, with time, I can get the muscle memory for chord shapes and positioning like I do with the guitar. I have been playing guitar for a VERY long time. I thought it might translate to the piano.
It doesn´t. At all. Not even a little bit.
I also thought that playing different time and tempo with the hands might be easier on the piano because the hands on the guitar are also doing different things and I am really good at that.
Wrong again. I can fly a plane but if you get into a helicopter with me, you are going to die. Totally different coordination.
You’re so right! Thanks
ME!
So I guess you're saying don't be afraid to make mistakes? I don't know about other people learning piano but I'm such a perfectionist! I need to stop worrying about playing the wrong keys!
Thanks Jazer great tips
SAME!
Imagine the wrong keys as Jazz.
Sanaol... Im practicing my sight reading skills.. Im so frustrated but I know I have to be patient... practice practice and trust the process... :)
Thanks! This helped me so much!
Jazer: * Takes out cloth * this will really improve your sight reading like 5 × times
Me: How on earth will a cloth help me?
Jazer: Step 1, Don't look at your hands
Me: Ah, I can already smell where the cloth will fit in
Wdum?
I will try this, but I think I will fail! I'm not a good enough pianist yet, I don't read music, I play by ear.
Keep teaching, we must never let the music die! 💕
Thanks for this video. Helps me out a lot right now!
What are your piano sight reading hacks/tips? 😀
Just saw this, see above. :-)
"You" 😂
I was looking for that comment xD
Me!!! I’ve been playing for the last 8 years and relying almost entirely on memorization. I never really made that transition from beginner notes that tell you the note to actual reading, and I have been suffering for it ever since
Me!
Haha, same. My teacher makes me sight-read for 20 minutes each day, and 1 year ago my sightreading was so so bad, but it got much much better with practice. Just like you, I have an awesome memory and can memorise and learn more than 20 pieces at a time, but sightreading is extremely important, because if you can sight read, you an *learn pieces faster*.
lovely technique... gonna try this.
This hack is underrated! Love your personality, keep up what you do♥️
How'd you go with this sight-reading hack?? 😂😂
Me, definitely me
Thankyou for great lessons. I am gonna try that for sure.
*Subscribed*
I will try this. Thank you
I get the whole about dont look at your hands idea when sight reading, but as a beginner with no music background etc, It is difficult to find assurance in making sure the key that I played were in fact the correct corresponding note on the sheet music, as I couldn't tell if the note was correct especially if im sight reading a sheet that I do not have prior Knowledge about, not knowing how it should sound like.
Geez, then get yourself digital piano and buy some app that provides feedback (it shows if you hit correct keys) pianomarvel or flowkey (both pay to play apps though ) and there is also sightreading.training ( free )
You can learn to feel the black keys to find the correct notes. For example B will be to the right of three black keys.
My teacher holds a piece of paper over my hands! Ha ha... same idea. Thx!
Thank You for the useful tips. I shall take it a try
Wonderful! And yes the piece of clothe is essential to totally forget the option of looking at the keyboard. Even the first note of C major you will find it by playing the scale. And doing that you are definitely working your ear! I have never had such pleasure of sight reading if not with this method! You do not care about reading all the notes one by one, you just follow the movement of the melody and you learn step by step of to deal with big intervals!! Thank you so much!!!🎉
2:17 that was liszt right there
I was also crap at sight reading until I discovered the same trick, and I started to practice playing with my eyes shut until I could get to the point where I could find any note without looking.
Now I have the opposite problem, I find it difficult to play without having the music in front of me. I’ve come full circle: if I want to *memorize* a piece I have to NOT look at the music and look at my hands instead LOL :)
Great idea! Thanks.
genius, Ive been playing for 50 years and i look DOWN all the time, thank you
This guy is kind of cute. Lol. Especially when turned up the speed to 1.75x
Thank you! That was fun!
Best advice ever! Thank you. 😊
Thanks for this tip, very usefull!
I love your music room! It’s cozy!
Thank you Jazer
Jazer I love and appreciate your videos. I want to relay to you how I learned to touch-type in England many years ago. I was in a Technical College and we all sat at separate desks, each with a typewriter. The keys were covered with a plastic shield with room underneath for our hands. On the wall in front of us was a replica of the keyboard and that is how we learnt to touch type. Even if we had looked down we wouldn’t have seen the keys. It was a brilliant system and I came out of that class able to type 120 words a minute. Muscle memory cannot be underestimated, it is ingrained into my brain. The same technique certainly applies to piano. Just wish I still had that discipline.
Fabulous suggestion.
It really helped me thanks
This is an awesome hack! I am going to try it out.
Amazing Jazer ! Thank you .
Brilliant idea.
We did this in my typing class in high school. It works, there’s no question in that.
I'm definitely going to try this! I've only just started learning piano so hopefully this will help me develop a good habit early on.
Great idea Jazer 👏👏
Thanks! This is really helpful for me - I will try the cloth when I practise next 🎹
Thank you!
thank you so much Jazer Lee!! i’m going to start using these techniques first thing tomorrow 😭😭😭🙏🏼👍🏼
thats exactly how my kids and I learned to type
, worked so well! Makes sense for piano too! :)
Hi Jazer-this is great! Makes me flash back to my Vocational Typewriting classes in high school in 1977, when I had to learn “touch-typing”-typing without looking at the keys. And that meant, after several weeks of ferocious and tedious drills to get our fingers used to where the keys were, taping a sheet of paper so that it draped over the keyboard. We had to reach under the paper, just as you showed, and, starting from the “home key row”, figure out where all the keys were and hit them reliably, and at speed.
This was unbelievably hard at first. But it was totally doable. Now, 40 years later, it's turned out that touch-typing was the only useful thing I got out of high school! :)
I agree totally with you dear teacher
Ingenious invention!
Thank you. very creative
Thank you Jazzer
Will try this out! Let's see how it goes!
Really great tip!
Vert useful.thank you
That actually looks pretty good mate. I'll give it a go. Cheers.
Love this hack! Tried it .. it really works 😍😍😍 thank you so much for all the smart tips!
So glad for you Bayan!
Love your video!😃👍🏻
I will always support your channel I improve lot of things from your channel
great advice, thank you
My pleasure Ali!