Being a piano student and slowly learning the craft I found it fascinating to see the differences between how two pianists tackled and tracked their music.
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November 24, 2017 at 8:23 am
Steve Ruis
Very interesting. One of the key differences between pros and amateurs is apparently how much ahead of the playing they read (the difference is not large, however).
What’s missing here but shows up in the comments is that sight is not the only operative sense. When we learn something very well indeed, the paying seems almost automatic, but we still flick our eyes over the keyboard because, that’s what eyes do (they are never still) but we are still monitoring the process, even though our subconscious minds are doing the bulk of the work.
There are also what I call logjams in such process, places where things tend to get caught or missed and those always grab our conscious attention when they come up.
Another key difference between pros and amateurs (or learning pros) is how fast they learn a new piece of music. This may stem from familiarity with both the instrument and the music. Musical progressions often are of the “one thing leads to another” so one gets used to 2 following 1, and 3 following 2, etc. This is possibly why composers who break such “rules” are often very hard to play.
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