Start with your hands in your lap, play one measure without looking at the keyboard, and return your hands to your lap in between each measure. Find white notes by feeling the adjacent black keys. You can play the treble clef with the right hand and the bass clef with the left, or alternate hands from measure to measure, always returning your hands to your lap in between each measure.
Ken Johansen is a pianist, teacher, and writer based in Baltimore, where he teaches at the Peabody Conservatory. His projects include the iPad sight-reading app Read Ahead, a keyboard harmony textbook Harmony at the Piano, the From the Ground Up series and an advanced sight-reading curriculum.
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