Piano Practice: Train your eyes with Liszt Liebestraum No. 3
Channel: Tommy's Piano Corner
Date: 27/05/2019

This video covers a discovery I made when practicing Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3.  It's about training your eyes when practicing things on piano where your hands aren't close enough together to be able to watch them both.  

When negotiating a jump, the natural tendency is to watch the hand that's jumping.  However, what if both are jumping in different directions at the same time?  Then where do you look as you can't watch both?  I noticed that in these circumstances, my brain got itself all confused as to where to look that it spent most of its time trying to decide - rather than guiding my hands.

I also noticed that if you will be watching one hand in a given section of a piece, then practice that section without watching the other hand.  Makes the learning process much faster I've noticed.

Let me know in the comments how you get on when you've tried this.

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Filmed on an iPhone 8+ - using the Filmic Pro app
Audio captured on an iPhone 6S using a Shure MV88 Microphone
Vocals captured on a Rode SmartLav microphone plugged into an iPhone 4S
Video editing done using iMovie
Audio editing done using Garageband

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