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[Analisa Wack]

Ive been playing piano for over 13 years and mostly did this by learning the pieces by heart when studying, because when I play, I usually look at where my hands are going (especially for left handed jumps or strides). Never had any remarks about this.

I've been playing professionally for many years and have always had to look at my hands for stride piano, though that wasn't my specialty. Nevertheless, I have a hard time believing that all but the very best stride pianists must look at their left hands pretty regularly.

That being said, when an accomplished jazz pianist I was taking lessons from several years ago challenged me to play my scales without looking, I was shocked that I kept missing my thumb tuck, no matter the scale. Turns out I had never gained a feeling in my hands for the tuck of a close note (i.e. F# -> G in G maj in RH) as opposed to that of a note away (Bb -> C in F maj RH). I was subconsciously relying on my sight to play it correctly. A few weeks of dedicated practicing resolved the problem and changed my habit, but it was unnerving nevertheless.

In your case, and for players in general, my rule-of-thumb advice is that you should be able to play without looking as long as your hands aren't changing positions drastically. I think it's always normal to look down quickly if you're moving a 5th or so without anything between.

If you are butchering your pieces, as you say, when attempting to play without looking at your hands then you need to slow it down in to the zone where you are playing correctly. (You'll probably clean up a few other things in the side!) Although this is excruciating at first, make yourself stay slow and only speed up only once you're satisfied with how you're doing. It will go by quickly in the end, and your skills and performance will improve.

Get 1st- or 2nd-level piano music, especially stuff that doesn't require you to move your hands, and start there. If you find that you have trouble not looking down at your hands, lay a blanket over your hands when you play.

Gradually work your way up to harder and harder music with the understanding that once you get to music where your hands are moving a lot, you're going to need to glance down unless you become an expert piano player, and even then, not necessarily.

I'd love to find something that wraps around your hand and blocks view of your fingers, for kids' practice. You know, those simple songs where your hand never moves. It builds trust that your hands are in the right place so you can actually concentrate on the written music.

If the piece is slow enough, you can get corroboration about your hands' location from feeling the black keys versus white keys... Even in faster tempos, feeling the adjacent keys when your hands "land" after a jump can be a reassurance.

I recently found some old hymnals at a thrift store and was planning to do the same thing! Thanks for the reminder. The burlap looks great in the black frames. I also have a lot of scrapbook paper I could use. Wallpaper scraps, wrapping paper, contact paper, and other fabrics would also work. Wanting to do something similar with a crocheted doily I recently found. So many possibilities with this concept: vintage postcards, greeting cards, recipe cards, doilies, photos of course, pretty much any flat object. Your home is decorated differently from mine, but I love your ideas and enjoy the photos of your beautiful home and family?

I love collecting old hymnals and have several. I also found free printables on Pinterest for old hymns and printed them on some card stock and then I use brown chalk to make the pages look old by brushing the chalk along the edges. You can also print them on antiqued looking card stock. Anyway, love what you did with the burlap.

(This quote was misunderstood on a FB thread. To be clear, no versions of Blakey standards have exact sheet music changes. Horace Silver is a very different harmonist than Bobby Timmons than Cedar Walton than Joanne Brackeen than Mulgrew Miller. This Branford anecdote is gratifying by suggesting that looking at what the composer first wrote might be part of the process.)

Now the improvisation begins: Make up your own set of jazzy changes to the melody in ballad tempo. This version should be gentle, pretty, and even ornamental, where the tune stays pretty much as is but everything else can be free.

(If this stage feels like a stretch, Fred Hersch taught me a good exercise: Accompany the melody with first one voice, the bass, then add in a second voice, the tenor, and finally a third, the alto. Normal 5-note jazz harmony is a piece of cake after that.)

For extra credit, you could watch film version of the great musicals: not as research, exactly, but simply for entertainment, and perhaps as a way to absorb something about the era that created the greatest jazz. Oklahoma! (1955) and West Side Story (1961) come to mind, especially with those astonishing dance sequences by Agnes De Mille and Jerome Robbins.

Update 2: This has been a popular post, and I have received a fair amount of private correspondence asking for clarity about which edition of the songbooks to get. Others have suggested that there were heavy-handed arrangers involved in the piano/vocal scores. I turned to an expert, Mike Kanan, and he wrote:

Lisa Witthas been teaching piano for more than 20 years and in that time has helped hundreds of students learn to play the songs they love. Lisa received classical piano training through the Royal Conservatory of Music, but she has since embraced popular music and playing by ear in order to accompany herself and others. Learn more about Lisa.

Overused selections (This is not always as important for college auditions, but it can serve as a warning and you may want to bring other songs. If the song is perfect for you, its probably ok for a college audition if its on the list below, for the list above, its probably not a good idea regardless of how well you sing it.)

Things in Europe are a little different than they are in the United States. I gave a masterclass earlier this fall in Sweden and almost every student had a Jason Robert Brown or John Bucchino song in their book and it seemed totally acceptable. You may want to email their admissions rep and ask them. England may be different and none these rules may apply. Good luck!

Modern rep is always a challenge to find. At the end of the day, if you sing something that may be overdone, make sure you really think about it dramatically and try to bring something different to it.

Hi, I have an audition for a High School regional project of Cinderella (R&H) and I am hoping for a stepsister part. I will be entering my freshman year of high school next year, look much older than I am (Have been mistaken for four years older than I am since the age of 11) and am a mezzo that has a large range (can sing way down to tenor and can sing many soprano songs).

I am working on putting together a cabaret/dinner theatre show using overdone audition songs. The premise is simple, the songs should be relatively well known and canned versions of them should be readily available. I am writing it for a quartet, two woman and two men. One older couple and one younger, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone. Need to include duets, trios and a couple quartets as well as solos. Of course, with the popularity of Les Mis right now, will have a couple sets from that show. Any ideas out there?

Ok, the choosing of audition songs can prove to be a daunting task. It seems like there are so many songs on the DO NOT list that its hard to come up with songs to even use. I have 2 upcoming auditions, one for Les Mis and one for Into the Woods. For my Les Mis audition I had chosen to do You Must Love Me from Evita bc of the emotion that can be portrayed. But you mentioned selections from Evita being a bad choice. For my Into the Woods auditon I had chosen My White Knight which you also placed on the DO NOT list. So, do you have any suggestions on better selections for an audition for both of these shows???

Look up the posts on picking the perfect audition song and discovering your type. I think those two should lead you to a long list of repertoire that will serve you well for years to come. If the audition is coming up soon, stick with what you are comfortable with. If not, I think the Evita is fine, but I would work on finding an alternate for My White Knight.

Switching gender on a pop/rock song is usually ok, but with musical theatre you are better sticking to the gender in the show. When you sing a song for an audition, you are basically saying this is an excerpt of a role that I could sing.

I am graduating from college with a BA in Theatre this spring and I have an audition for a professional musical theater company coming up. Would you say that this list applies to professional musical theatre auditions as well? Or are there more shows and songs that should be steered away from?

Pulled is definitely overdone. The Samantha Brown piece is not. As for Neil Simon monologues, I do see a lot of them. However they are somewhat standard rep and they come from actual plays instead of monologue books, which are two positive attributes. Standard repertoire is a little bit different when it comes to being overdone. The overdone monologues and songs that get annoying are those that come from pieces that are the hottest thing at the current moment.

Madame Butterfly is not a musical, so that would not work for musical theater audition. I list Aida, but that is the musical by Elton John. Try finding something from the singers musical theater anthology that fits your vocal range. There should be several things out there for you.

I know this is all about college but can you offer any advise to Children. I have a 9 year old daughter auditioning for local and Broadway coming up in a few weeks. She is a soprano and can belt. Would you suggest still staying away form the songs on your list or do you think there is more leniency when it comes to children. Any advise on song choice and any Do nots would be a great help.

Thank you!

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