Piano students sometimes struggle when the music requires their fingers to stretch more than one finger on each key, or when learning crossovers, or they may have learned notes from fingering only (gasp!). Here are a few tricks I have come up with over many years of teaching piano lessons, and the hints for them that I draw right on their music,

to bring the students' eyes to the score,

help them look ahead,

and prepare for unexpected changes.

fingering tricks

1. ​same note, different finger
2. ​stretch 
3. ​scrunch
4. ​crossover

We use examples from Masterwork Classics Level 1-2 edited by Jane Magrath

They are simple and easy to use in the piano lesson today!

What other tricks have you found helpful?

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Other piano teaching resources:

Free video demonstration: "how I teach a first piano lesson"

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