When sight reading a piece of sheet music it is easy to lose your place in the score if you need to look down at your hands. Try to not look down, but if you must, don’t move your head — just do an eye-flip down at the keys and back up. That way your eye sockets stay pointed in the same direction, making it a lot easier to find your place in the score again.

But piano sight reading is more than a matter of the eyes; it’s a matter of understanding what you are seeing. If all you see is a mess of black notes on white paper, you’re in big trouble. But if you can see intervals, chords, scales, patterns and so forth, you’ll be much further down the road in piano sight reading.

Which is a good reason to get well grounded in music theory!