Leaping Between the Notes Without Looking Part 1/2 Video

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Leaping Between the Notes Without Looking Part 1/2

(Piano playing) Everyone welcome to piano lesson number 32. Today I am going to be talking to you guys about two different things. One is that being able to look at the sheet music and play (Demonstration) and like looking at the sheet music so basically playing without looking at your hand. And then the other one is how to move your hand to do certain leap and like sinking the keys and stuff like that. I sort of touch down a little bit on Fur Elise there, but it is sort of a mini point and I am like I should probably about that. So the one who gave me the idea about using the sheet music and looking at it and like how to play while looking at the sheet music and not looking down—that was Maggie. So there you go Maggie. I didn’t forget about you. Lets get right into it. I am sitting down here and now the piece that I am going to use to do the right hand to show how you can play while you are looking at it—but basically what we are going to do is I suggest if you can’t play without looking at your hands and you got to always look down and check in like this back and forth and back and forth. If you can’t do that like if you can’t just stay at the music and play at the same time I suggest you do this with one hand which is what I’m going to show to start off with. Once you have mastered one hand then you can add a second hand, but don’t try to add until you can do it with one because plain two hands without looking is harder than playing with one just like two heads are better than one. What you are going to notice here—this song is called Song of Twilight. It is actually a very nice song. I’m using it because it got to produce simple right hand going to one hand. First stop we got these fingers here. When you are doing it when you want to play without looking what you got to do is you got to take notice of where the general layout of the notes is because you have to feel around sort of where there. As you here it says 2, 3, 5 so that all the notes lie under my hand perfectly that is partly why I am using this piece. So if I look down all my notes 2, 3, 5 they are all right here. So, I can’t be basically showing you how I am feeling like while I am playing this I can’t distribute the feeling of my fingers across the keys, so you just have to imagine that you can feel the keys or maybe you can go along with it yourself. So what I am going to do is right now I am going to set my fingers on the keys. So I am thinking okay there is 2, 3, 5 and then it goes back to 3 and then on 2 again. So, what I am going to do is I am just going to play 2, 3, 5, 3, 2 (Demonstration) without looking and then when we keep going (Demonstration). So, this is a C. so without looking I am going to move my thumb like this and feel for the black keys and then find that C sharp like that. I want to do that without looking. So I just had to show you because obviously you can’t tell what I’m doing with my fingers. So I am feeling around—something you can do actually is you can close your eyes and feel 3 black keys, 2 black keys, 3 black keys, 2 black keys you can put your third finger in between like that and then you’ll know exactly where you are (Demonstration). If you feel this three like this then juts move your third finger to the left (Demonstration) and then you can pass it on and then you know this is G (Demonstration) and that is B flat (Demonstration). You can do all this without looking (Demonstration). C (Demonstration), G (Demonstration), E (Demonstration). Now if you push this over you can do this too (Demonstration). So that is how I do it. I use the black keys I feel it with my fingers where they are and then I am like I am here that way you don’t have to look sometimes. It is about feeling sort of like if you are a blind person so that you can use your sight to get the information that you need to feed down through your hands. So part of this is the reading by intervals. So here this is a step up—it is a second and then this is skipping from a line it is skipping over the space here to the line up here. So whenever it is going from a space to a line or a line to a space, either one that is called the step. And if you go from a line to another line or space to another space that is called the skip. So basically its just an easy way this a step (Demonstration), this is a skip (Demonstration)—sort of like you are skipping across (Demonstration). This one you skip in a stair (Demonstration) you feel like climbing a upstairs—it’s skipping across the stair. You want to be reading for steps, skips and stuffs like that in any large intervals. Then you want to be reading a head sort of. So if you take this finger and this finger before you start playing you should figure out what this all the way up to this pinky—you should already have that done and this is where you start. So then as you start playing and then this one is where you are looking and figuring out what you are going to play.

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(Piano playing)

Everyone welcome to piano lesson number 32. Today I am going to be talking to you guys about two different things. One is that being able to look at the sheet music and play (Demonstration) and like looking at the sheet music so basically playing without looking at your hand. And then the other one is how to move your hand to do certain leap and like sinking the keys and stuff like that. I sort of touch down a little bit on Fur Elise there, but it is sort of a mini point and I am like I should probably about that.

So the one who gave me the idea about using the sheet music and looking at it and like how to play while looking at the sheet music and not looking down—that was Maggie. So there you go Maggie. I didn’t forget about you. Lets get right into it.

I am sitting down here and now the piece that I am going to use to do the right hand to show how you can play while you are looking at it—but basically what we are going to do is I suggest if you can’t play without looking at your hands and you got to always look down and check in like this back and forth and back and forth. If you can’t do that like if you can’t just stay at the music and play at the same time I suggest you do this with one hand which is what I’m going to show to start off with. Once you have mastered one hand then you can add a second hand, but don’t try to add until you can do it with one because plain two hands without looking is harder than playing with one just like two heads are better than one.

What you are going to notice here—this song is called Song of Twilight. It is actually a very nice song. I’m using it because it got to produce simple right hand going to one hand.

First stop we got these fingers here. When you are doing it when you want to play without looking what you got to do is you got to take notice of where the general layout of the notes is because you have to feel around sort of where there. As you here it says 2, 3, 5 so that all the notes lie under my hand perfectly that is partly why I am using this piece. So if I look down all my notes 2, 3, 5 they are all right here. So, I can’t be basically showing you how I am feeling like while I am playing this I can’t distribute the feeling of my fingers across the keys, so you just have to imagine that you can feel the keys or maybe you can go along with it yourself.

So what I am going to do is right now I am going to set my fingers on the keys. So I am thinking okay there is 2, 3, 5 and then it goes back to 3 and then on 2 again. So, what I am going to do is I am just going to play 2, 3, 5, 3, 2 (Demonstration) without looking and then when we keep going (Demonstration). So, this is a C. so without looking I am going to move my thumb like this and feel for the black keys and then find that C sharp like that. I want to do that without looking. So I just had to show you because obviously you can’t tell what I’m doing with my fingers. So I am feeling around—something you can do actually is you can close your eyes and feel 3 black keys, 2 black keys, 3 black keys, 2 black keys you can put your third finger in between like that and then you’ll know exactly where you are (Demonstration). If you feel this three like this then juts move your third finger to the left (Demonstration) and then you can pass it on and then you know this is G (Demonstration) and that is B flat (Demonstration). You can do all this without looking (Demonstration).

C (Demonstration), G (Demonstration), E (Demonstration). Now if you push this over you can do this too (Demonstration). So that is how I do it. I use the black keys I feel it with my fingers where they are and then I am like I am here that way you don’t have to look sometimes. It is about feeling sort of like if you are a blind person so that you can use your sight to get the information that you need to feed down through your hands.

So part of this is the reading by intervals. So here this is a step up—it is a second and then this is skipping from a line it is skipping over the space here to the line up here. So whenever it is going from a space to a line or a line to a space, either one that is called the step. And if you go from a line to another line or space to another space that is called the skip. So basically its just an easy way this a step (Demonstration), this is a skip (Demonstration)—sort of like you are skipping across (Demonstration). This one you skip in a stair (Demonstration) you feel like climbing a upstairs—it’s skipping across the stair.

You want to be reading for steps, skips and stuffs like that in any large intervals. Then you want to be reading a head sort of. So if you take this finger and this finger before you start playing you should figure out what this all the way up to this pinky—you should already have that done and this is where you start. So then as you start playing and then this one is where you are looking and figuring out what you are going to play.

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