Learn to Play Piano Without Looking at Your Hands - Tutorial by JAZZEDGE 

technique at 4:54 , you are welcome.

I'm practising this. It's like learning to type

He makes a great case for improving musicianship

I just found this site when I searched and found it very inspiring! I have only been learning for a year and still find reading whilst playing difficult. I will give your techniques a go but still find it a bit scary! so I will start by covering just small areas at a time. I will let you know if I make any progress, but I'm 72 years old so don't "hold your breath!"

I am a beginner but trust me (Before watching your video) i like playing piano without looking the keys and still now also mostly i like playing when i close my eyes and feel each nodes deeply its make my body and mind feel great . Music is the one language which which is understand by every living animals and human on earth it is a bridge between us .

This is the absolute BEST advice I have ever been given about improving on the piano. I can't believe the difference it makes to close your eyes - your brain has to engage to figure out where you are going. Life changing!!! Seriously!!! Why have I not thought of this before? Thank you!!!

Who would be stupid enough to give this a thumbs down?? Are you mad?? This is invaluable information.

I dissagree with one thing. It's the use of sleep masks, if you have one handy try it, I had one from a travel kit and been using it for the last few days and it really works, I got no darkened room but I have a sleep mask and it does eliminate that easy glance to get re-oriented when you lose your bearings. I found it was a knee jerk response to take a look down when I lost my bearings. Found it impossible to make the break. With the mask on it became very simple to feel for the place on the kayboard. Someone called those anchor notes, like C and F if you hit the thumb or pinky on the edege of the ebony key or feel for the group of 3 keys or the gap between the Eb and Gb, Bb and Db. The mask helped me swich over to feeling for those and also using my ears. It is like a switch from eyes and ears to touch and ears but the mask forced me to make the switch over much simpler. There are some other tricks to get the bigger jumps but that will come from the consequence of not being able to see where my fingers must go.

Best piano-playing advice I've come across ! Thanks for this video!

Thanks, Willie. I've been learning keyboard for ten days now and have been trying to play with my eyes closed (thank goodness for headphones). Some great tips in your video. I'll try them out. PETE

I guess the solutions to nearly every problems with the piano are all "pratice". Thank you. I found this very helpful. Trying to be LingLingg

Thankyouuuuu 😄😄👍👍👍👍👌 this is the lessin ive been looking for. You the man. 😁

Thanks Willie, This makes a lot of sense.

This was very interesting. I will try it out tonight!

Loved it thanks ! Real talented

Thanks Willie you are so talented am convinced it is the best way.. I just start piano but say to myself I should try to feel/hear but never looking at the keyboard... Thanks for your lessons this encourage me a lot !!

Reading notes without going up and down the ladder, and not looking at hands is what kept me from progressing fast.

Willie. This is a great lesson. I do a similar thing by closing my eyes and playing. By the way, what brand of keyboard are you using in your videos?

Very helpful and confirms what I've been hearing others say on RU-vid - thanks

Brilliant lesson, Willie. Revelatory. Thanks, mate.

Thanks for sharing, I was trying something this yesterday and this video came up on my phone !

Thank you Willie :)

Good job! You can use one of those eye masks any time during the day. By the way, Willie, there is another reason for film/game music composers. They can compose while watching the scenes!

I hope it's not too late for me... I always look at my left hand because of those big jumps there and almost always completely memorize the sheet music because i cannot look at it... will try to focus on not looking at my hands from now on.

Love your jazz abilities...... ♥️ If you can’t improv, you have to have something memorized to play with your eyes closed

Very helpful! Thank you!

It's called play by feel. I practice with my eyes closed too so that I know the feeling of pressing the keys.

Thankyou so much my sight reading is good now I will definetly practise this.

amazing video

Great tips. Merci.

Good stuff.! Thanks.

what happen when you play stride? (bass & chord got more than 2 octave interval) I found very difficult to hit right bass note without peek. especially when my right hand improvising at high notes area. My hands has very long distance between. (If I peek, my head will keep swing all the time, which is makes my head very unconfortable)

Great tutorial, it's really useful for me. I started learning piano one month ago, and I really want to know the method of how to play it without looking at my hands. Now I know it, no secrets!! Just do it, it's rule of thumb!!

what did a song you had played

Thanks Willie for the mini lesson. Some of what you say also applies to sightreading music far as feeling the keys. Naturally you wouldnt play in the dark sightreading unless I have the song memorized. I have always wondered how Stevie Wonder first knows which is middle C is on the keyboard when he first sits down? Anyway, great tips on not looking at the keys, DaveT Jazzedge member

You could also mention, for pop playing, if you are also singing, it's way too distracting to not be facing the audience. So all the well known pianist/singers are always facing the audience. But like classical playing, for really large leaps you can glance down for a sec, but for the most part, no looking down at all!

I had to learn my scales and arpeggios blind out of necessity (no, I'm not blind). It's just that I couldn't play certain arpeggios (G minor diminished 7, For example) while looking because I felt my hands looked ugly while playing it, and it affected my performance. As I'm learning a piece, I tend to try adding blindness to the mix (I'm not the best sight-reader out there, and looking down doesn't help).

Namasthe Sir,Very good lesson.Thanks.

Great lessons. Question. Why do you have 3 websites? Jazz Edge, Piano With Willie and No bull Piano? What's the deal amigo?

good video!

What happen if you're playing the piano and not looking both at the piano and sheet at the same time?

sir u r God of piano!!! love u sir.

Why can't piano teachers get on the same page when it comes to fingerings for arpeggios, triads and 7th chords? One teacher or piano book will say 1-3-5 for right hand triads, while another says 1-2-4. For major 7th chords, one says 5-4-2-1 in the left hand, while another says 5-3-2-1. If two teachers agree that right hand major 7th chords should be played 1-2-4-5, wouldn't it make sense to learn 1-2-4 for the triad rather than 1-3-5 since you can just add the 7th without shifting other fingers from 1-3-5 to 1-2-4? My piano book fingerings for Ebdim7 (which is close to what you played, except for the 7th), for two octaves, is 4-3-2-1 4-3-2-1-4 from bottom to top in the left hand. At 11:50, you kept it simple by starting with the pinky, then 5-4-3-2-1 and crossing over with 4.

I center at D.. so the piano is a mirror image, left and right..

great lesson. that was funny at 15:17 maybe you could use that kind of humor to point out mistakes, bad habits and foolish things that people do while learning or playing. That makes discussed items in lessons even more memorable. I had two very funny teachers, math and French, and there are things that they taught that I could never forget because they made me and my classmates laugh. But again this is just my suggestion. you are an excellent teacher regardless.

I have back prpoblems and if I play while looking my lower back begins to hurt.

After the lactic acid I ain't looking down. Thank you.

sir u r God of piano!! love sir..🙂

And of course singing and playing jazz standards, the same thing would apply.

But when you are practicing then it is ok to look at your hands right?

In the first 30 seconds he defeated the purpose of watching the video

I can't play looking at my hands. How the heck can I play in the dark

Pretty scary to play piano in darkness.

Who’s watching this while playing piano ? No one ? K

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Then I can’t read the score

another tip for not watching the fingers, it's when a beautifull girl is in the audiance, u forget everything and looking at her only :)

Showoff.

I like you, and what you say in this video .But I so hate jazz, with all my heart, i do SO HATE JAZZ, it sounds so cheap and corny and cheezy and spineless and boring and dumb

Extremely helpful. I’m just sorry to change the number of comments to 89. 88 was perfect.