practice

[kimba1055]

i practice 5 hour a day in how many years i should be able to play any sheet music 4 year 5 ,6 or 8 i been playing for 3 years ?

[monsieurrenard]

Hi Kimba,

That's quite a broad question you're asking. Why is it important to know that you'll be able to play any sheet music in 4 or 8 years, are you planning concerts this far ahead? 

If you keep one eye on your goal, you can only have one eye on the path.

Best of Luck in your endeavors, make sure you makes those daily 5 hours count.

-Monsieur le Renard.

[barnowl]

In 8 years you'll be playing at Lincoln Center to a rapt audience.

Practice six hours a day, you'll make it in 4.

I promise. 

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

Depends on a students. I can say this, don't look at progress this way, it will only slow you down. Just practice, and practice legibly. Repeating excercises for 8 hours the same way is not going to improve, playing an excercise correctly one hour will improve greatly. I learned this and I practice around 4 hours on an average day and I try to make use of time the best way I can. I practice the first 2 Moszkowski eudes, Impromptu no4 by Schubert, Czerny, a lot of technical excercises(don't listen to others who say they don't work), Beethoven's Rage over a lost penny. These are my current working pieces. My repertoire consists of Bach preludes, invention, Mozart's "Ah, vous direz-je maman" variations, Alla turca, many Schumann pieces, Le Coucou, and more.

I love to practice.

[mike_lang]

i practice 5 hour a day in how many years i should be able to play any sheet music 4 year 5 ,6 or 8 i been playing for 3 years ?

I don't mean to offend, but this question is absurd.  I do not know how quickly you learn, what you are playing, your thinking habits, the quality of practicing you do, what you practice - it is impossible to judge this... 

How do you practice?  What do you practice?

Best,
ML

[kimba1055]

I don't mean to offend, but this question is absurd.  I do not know how quickly you learn, what you are playing, your thinking habits, the quality of practicing you do, what you practice - it is impossibly to judge this... 

How do you practice?  What do you practice?
i'm working
1. bach preludio ii  ,  prulude in d .inventions 4  - 8- 
2.mozart sonata k.545
3 chopin  study # 4 op 10, polonaise op 26 #1
4 beethoven sonata 49 # 2
and czerny the art of fingen  dexterity
and i love the piano s much yestarday i practice 11 hour the more i practice the more i want to do it  i love it, too bad i find out at age 28 i'm 31 know
Best,
ML

[mike_lang]

Do you have a teacher?

Best,
ML

[kimba1055]

Do you have a teacher?
yes not 1 but 2  madeline bruser www.artofpracticing.com she is my teacher and to me she is great .
Best,
ML

[mike_lang]

Fantastic!  I believe I've read excerpts from her book, which is quite helpful.  You seem to be in good hands - how has she answered your questions?

Best,
ML

[donjuan]

honestly, you could practice your whole life and still not be able to "play any sheet music"

there are no guarantees in music.  most of us waste our whole lives trying to become something, and then at the end when we are still nothing, we say we would do it all over again just the same.

I'm glad you have a good teacher.  good luck

[cjp_piano]

If you have a love of playing, a curious and eager attitude that makes you want to play anything and everything, and you have a good teacher, who cares how long it will take until you can play everything?  It may be sooner than you think.

"You can do anything if you put your mind to it " (or something like that, from BACK TO THE FUTURE, right?  he he)   

 

[zheer]

i practice 5 hour a day in how many years i should be able to play any sheet music 4 year 5 ,6 or 8 i been playing for 3 years ?

   We can safly say that haw fast or haw slow we develop in piano playing depends on many different factors, TALENT - TIME - MONEY - TEACHERS - LUCK and so on.

    5 hours a day is too much, 3 hours a day is a good idea.

[mike_lang]

   We can safly say that haw fast or haw slow we develop in piano playing depends on many different factors, TALENT - TIME - MONEY - TEACHERS - LUCK and so on.

    5 hours a day is too much, 3 hours a day is a good idea.

How do you figure that there is an ideal amount of practice time?  Andre Watts tells his students not to practice more than 4 hours, while Emilio del Rosario expects at least 6 daily.  Martha Argerich practices an hour or two, while Fou T'song practices 14 daily.  I don't think there is any ruler by which to judge this amount for pianists on the whole.

Best,
ML

[cjp_piano]

How do you figure that there is an ideal amount of practice time?  Andre Watts tells his students not to practice more than 4 hours, while Emilio del Rosario expects at least 6 daily.  Martha Argerich practices an hour or two, while Fou T'song practices 14 daily.  I don't think there is any ruler by which to judge this amount for pianists on the whole.

Best,
ML

Yeah, I don't think there is an ideal amount of practice time