Keeping Your Eyes on the Score

In order to become oriented at the keyboard and thus make easier the acquisition of a necessary skill at sight-reading, it is a good practice to play memorized pieces in the dark.

C. P. E. Bach, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments

How to Practice

• Introduction
• General Advice
• Leaps in LH
• Leaps in Both Hands
• Consecutive Octaves
• Practice Suggestions
• Diagnostic Test

Diagnostic Test

• Test

Pieces

Leaps in the Left Hand

1. Schubert, German Dance, D. 783, no. 9
2. Schubert, German Dance, D. 365, no. 3
3. Schubert, German Dance, D. 783, no. 6
4. Gurlitt, Chrysanthemums, Op. 132, no. 1
5. Satie, Gymnopédie no. 2
6. Tchaikovsky, Chanson Triste
7. Schumann, Mein Garten
8. Chopin, Waltz in A minor. Op. Post.
9. Schumann, Albumblätter, Op. 124, no. 4
10. Chopin, Waltz in B minor
11. Bruch, Piano Piece, Op. 12, no. 4
12. Chopin Cantabile

Leaps in Both Hands

1. Heller, Etude, Op. 125, no. 8
2. Pachulski, Pedal Point, Op. 23, no. 15Heller, Etude, Op. 125, no. 8
3. Massenet, Roses d’Octobre
4. Schubert, Ständchen
5. Gurlitt, Chrysanthemums, Op. 132, no. 6
6. Schubert, Waltz, D. 146, no. 5
7. Heller, Etude, Op. 45, no. 15
8. Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 31, no. 3, III
9. Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 27, no. 1, II
10. Beethoven, Sonata, Op. 26, I
11. Beethoven, Variations on “God Save the King”
12. Mendelssohn, Variations Serieuses
13. Schumann, FaschingsSchwank aus Wien
14. Rachmaninoff, Prelude, Op. 23, no. 5

Octaves

1. Schubert, Der König in Thule
2. Schumann, Ich grolle nicht
3. Fauré, Après un rêve
4. Schubert, German Dances, D. 970
5. Schubert, Ecossaise, D. 735, no. 7
6. Schubert, German Dance, D. 146, no. 4
7. Schubert, Valses nobles, D. 969