Rotating sheet music clockwise when first learning

[leemond2008]

OK this isn't something I will be doing (well I'm going to have a go purely because I'm intrigued)

I just read that a tip for people starting out learning sheet music is to rotate the piece 90 degrees clockwise so the music is actually pointing down, the reasoning is that the notes will then be a direct diagram for your fingers to follow and it will help with reading octaves.

At first I thought it was a full on cockamamie idea but then it actually started to make sense, on the easier pieces where your right hand say is only playing a few notes that are relatively simple then it should be visually easier to follow it.

I'll see if I can find the website that I read it on again and post a link.

As I say it isn't something I will be trying and it might be something that will hurt you in the long term, I just thought it was an interesting idea.

[leemond2008]

found the link, that was easier than I was expecting

https://takelessons.com/blog/how-to-read-sheet-music-for-piano

[quantum]

Interesting.  At least one of my past students had problems with the orientation of pitches on sheet music vs. orientation of pitches on the piano. 

[timothy42b]

I kind of like the Guitar Hero style of notation.  What's it called, piano roll maybe? 

[huaidongxi]

placing the score in this manner to correlate directionally to where the notes on the keyboard lie has a similar basis to a tip Chick Corea gives.  he learned it from a teacher who was trained in Italian piano methodology.  the first pianoforte was created by someone we'd call Italian now (not a political state at the time of its invention), and one of the earliest great technical pianists (Mozart didn't develop legato playing, acc. to Beethoven, because his technique developed on the other keyboards prior to the spread of pianofortes) was Clementi.  the center of the keyboard in terms of left and right hand mirror symmetry is the D above 'middle' C.