Playing the Piano - 4 – In the Key of Stupid

Well... I read this and it made sense…

ebtx.com/music/music04.htm
Excerpt...

One must learn to get one's conscious thoughts out of the way. As soon as you "think" about what you're playing (the technical aspects) your efforts will collapse.

This is better understood.

When you think, you think in words at about 6 hertz (6 words per second). this is painfully slow in comparison to the rate at which we can "take in" musical notes (about 30 hertz, i.e. 30 notes per second). Obviously then, if you think about your playing like this ... "Oh what note comes next? ... oh yes, this one ... then this one ..." , you're going to trip all over the place.

So, I decided that I would make notation stickers for the keyboard…. It seems to be working because I’m starting to read the notes on the sheet music and my fingers are hitting the notes faster and faster. Most books I read emphasize the “letters” that represents the notes. It takes an extra step to translate it from “sheet music notation” to “name of note” to “which finger and key”. I did write the notes after, but never use them.

Coreldraw 7 template (they still need trimming after printing)
Adobe Acrobat PDF template (they still need trimming after printing)
AVERY LASER LABELS
05160
AL-100
2 5/8" x 1"