Thank you ! I totally agree with your anecdote involving that famous blind pianist. Being able to play without looking is more a consequence of the "mapping" skill than the result of an intention to achieve that skill. We don't play blindfolded because it's useless toward the music, and one can get labeled as as "show off man" negatively if he does. However it's a useful skill when sighreading. Sometimes, my pupils ask me with envy : "you are even not looking at your hands when you read" and then I answer "It's not to show off, it's just that I don't need to. One day you will be able too". It's a skill you develop without realising it. Professional chess players can also play a whole game without having a board. I guess that's the same "mapping" area of the brain that it is involved.

I came here for basic lessons, and point #1 is already super advanced 😀

I am an old lady who has played piano as an amateur all my life. Now that I am retired, I have the time to devote to piano that I need! Your teachings are so helpful to me! I am currently working on Variation 13 of Book 2, Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganinni. I would love to see a tutorial on this difficult and rewarding piece!

Great!!! Thanks

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Hello again Shijun Wang, great material as always. I'm glad that you keep doing these kind of videos and thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge!

That's incredibly useful thank you

Thank you for your sharing :)

Great lesson again...))) Thank you. What comes to my mind regarding focus, concentration: We much more easily focus when the subject of focus is enjoyable. A practice session of one hour can feel like 5 minutes. Naturally, focus goes where there is joy. I am not a professional player, but I could imagine that the ability to just sink into the music would keep focus. The mind would just not be distracted so easily. Of course, all technical difficulties must have been mastered before. How to create joy inside might be an interesting question as it is the leading force.

Strings players like violin & cello are taught to feel the positions on the 4 strings. Piano players would look up to read the sheet and occasionally look down quickly to make sure the fingers are on the right keys. A blind pianist would feel the position of the keys to play correctly. First he need to land on the first ones for the LH & RH and the rest are relative to the starting positions. A sighted person can learn to feel the keys like a blind person. You often see someone on a TV talent show playing piano with a blindfold. Looks difficult because people who can see would be looking at his hands as he play more than feeling his way around the keyboard.

I remember doing a jazz band concert playing piano for the first time and I had an utter mental breakdown crying and everything lol.

"if you miss something, people will die" Me: *misses a note My audience: *dead Very good video! Great content! Keep it up!

Could you please do a video on reading music? How could I become good at it

Good points and very helpful! I assume you were speaking about Nobuyuki Tsujii ...

Thank you very much for this video. Since you mentioned anxiety - I struggle with this too and it affects my focus quite a lot. Did you overcome your anxiety somehow or develop a strategy to better deal with it? Could you perhaps make a video on that? Thanks a lot and best

I thought he was Jackie chan from the thumbnail picture

I’ve been practicing for nearly a year and I have a big problem with my fingers not going for the right keys. It’s incredibly frustrating, I can play it a thousand times and still make a stupid mistake hitting the wrong key.