To see or not to see?

[mrba1979]

Does watching yourself play during a performance help or hinder?

[allthumbs]

Does watching yourself play during a performance help or hinder?

Do you mean like when you are having an 'out of body experience' during the performance?

[go12_3]

mrba1979:  do you mean watching a video of your performance?   It may help perhaps to hear your piece and watch how your hands are doing, but I don't know because I never did a video of my playing. 

best wishes,

go12_3

[shingo]

Do you mean watching/looking at your hands whilst you play?

[mrba1979]

Do you mean watching/looking at your hands whilst you play?

Yes.  I was just wondering.  Not in the sense WOW look what my hands can do, but do you need to look in order to play.  In pieces where my hands are not all over the keyboard I can play with out looking at them.  However in pieces where large blocks of chords have me all over the place I tend to look involuntarily where my hands are headed.  When watching the professionals I can never really tell what their eyes are doing.  Technique wise is this important.