Simple question about levels

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Hello

I wonder how to interprete those levels. For example, this is level 2
https://www.pianostreet.com/search/freesingle.php?id=906
When am I level 2 
Can this be like the number of years you play piano? I play 1 year now, I practiced this piece for weeks now .. sure I can play the notes, but I want to play it perfectly in rhythm, with all musical details and colors, and with a joyful speed ... and I just can't, my fingers are too slow, unexperienced.
For an idea of what I did in the past year: Denes Agay with "The joy of first year piano", I started practicing scales with both hands, started some simple studies and now started Czerny Opus 849 "30 etudes de mecanisme". All is going fairly well, had a good exam and good grades. Am I level 2 now ? 
Hehe this post sounds ridiculous but was just wondering.

[rc]

Rating the difficulty of a piece is not an exact science, don't get hung up on levels - it's just a guess.  It's better to put more stock on how much of a challenge it is for you. Everybody has different backgrounds, strengths and weaknesses anyways.

It sounds like this piece might be a bit out of your reach for now.  If you've been working on it for weeks and can't get it to your satisfaction, you're probably getting a little burned out with this one.  That's nothing to worry about (personally if I'm able to get a piece sounding 'just right' after a few weeks I feel it wasn't enough of a challenge ), it's all part of the learning process.

Of course I may be wrong, I'm reading between the lines here.

My advice would be to pick an aspect that you feel you're weak with and focus on that for a while.  You mentioned rhythm and speed a few times, maybe that would be a good area to work on?

[shamu]

Hello

I wonder how to interprete those levels. For example, this is level 2
https://www.pianostreet.com/search/freesingle.php?id=906
When am I level 2 
Can this be like the number of years you play piano? I play 1 year now, I practiced this piece for weeks now .. sure I can play the notes, but I want to play it perfectly in rhythm, with all musical details and colors, and with a joyful speed ... and I just can't, my fingers are too slow, unexperienced.
For an idea of what I did in the past year: Denes Agay with "The joy of first year piano", I started practicing scales with both hands, started some simple studies and now started Czerny Opus 849 "30 etudes de mecanisme". All is going fairly well, had a good exam and good grades. Am I level 2 now ? 
Hehe this post sounds ridiculous but was just wondering.

Don't worry, those levels mean nothing. It's just like rating them on a scale of hardness 1 to 10. I have played that song before and I would personally rate it a 1, it is very easy.

[pianochick93]

It's also a matter of how long you have been playing as to how easy they are.

When I had only just started piano lessons again after teaching myself for 5 years, my classroom music teacher gave me Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor. At the time I woud have rated it about a 10/10 on the difficulty scale, but now I would only give it about a 7. It's not that I have played the piece and got better at it, but I'm in a much better position to analyse how difficult a piece is, and it isn't actually that hard.

Having said that, I'm still not past playing only the right hand by itself. I think it sounds cool like that though.

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I have played that song before and I would personally rate it a 1, it is very easy.

Hey that's good for my motivation 

The piece and notes are quite simple ...
but not if you want to play it as pro as the sample mp3, at least not for me

[shamu]

Hey that's good for my motivation 

The piece and notes are quite simple ...
but not if you want to play it as pro as the sample mp3, at least not for me

I would, but I'm afraid my equipment doesn't work anymore. Still searching for a new microphone!