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Topic: have an idea.......need suggestions  (Read 1435 times)

Offline chsbob

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have an idea.......need suggestions
on: March 29, 2005, 10:21:58 PM
At the very bottom step of intermediate.

Want to learn the keyboard by feel, i.e. not look at keys. But at same time read the music.

Some kind of a jury-rig, kinda like flip-down from the  top sunglasses that attach to regular eyeglasses but in this case would flip down and being blackened so I would not be able to see my hands. Come up with a solution, pattern it and make zillions.

Any suggestions please.

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Bob

Offline bernhard

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Re: have an idea.......need suggestions
Reply #1 on: March 29, 2005, 11:35:35 PM
You can always attach a piece of cardboard on the piano so that your hands are under it.  ;D

Meanwhile have a look here:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2577.msg22247.html#msg22247
(Keyboard topography – how to find notes by touch)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3205.msg28255.html#msg28255
(how not to look at the keys)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4461.msg41580.html#msg41580
(Looking at the keys: Good or bad? exercises to help finding notes by touch. Good contributions by Chang).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. (Hunter Thompson)
 

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