What were your major Milestones?

[goalevan]

how much time playing the piano before you started tackling pieces such as:

Pathetique
Fantasie Impromptu
Chopin Etudes
Anything else

[ayahav]

it took me a day before I could play mary had a little lamb perfectly...
just kidding....

I worked on the First Chopin Ballade for a year before I performed it.... but I think I wasn't ready for it intellectually when I started.... but that developed through working on the piece...... but performing it for the first time was sheer joy and pleasure.

[dj]

well for me.....11 years; however, the first 10 were spent goofing off cuz i wasn't really interested in piano. it really shouldn't take that long at all if you r dedicated.

[Clare]

Me too. My major milestone was after millions of years of going to a bad teacher and having to go through being rebuilt from scratch with a new teacher due to a shocking technique. I finally found out how to actually play properly, to listen to music as much as I could, and to discover just how much fun practicing could actually be.

[faulty_damper]

What these (#, b) symbols meant.

My piano is out of tune!

Learning how to tune the piano.  (Which caused another problem with knowing when a string in a unison is off.  Nearly impossible to tune a unison into perfect pitch [ex. A440: all strings should be A1=440, A2=440, A3=440; but nearly impossible to tune it that way so:  A1=440.0002, A2=440.003, A3=440perfect.]  This is absolutely anoying but also very difficult to hear.)

My finger nails are too long.

[lau]

 I learned Fantasie Impromptu after 6 years of lessons. But I wasn't interested at all during my first 2 years.

[quantum]

Actually Fantasie Impromptu was one of my milestones.  After going to several teachers and not learning proper technique, my new teacher taught me how to play this piece with good technique. 

After learning the Impromptu with this teacher, I actually started to like playing piano more because I would get to learn the pieces I was interested in and the proper way to play them.  Playing became less physically demanding because I was using better technique and playing pieces was more fun. 

[pabst]

my first milestone was being able to play several minimalistic pieces for my family (glass, tiersen, easy villa-lobos etc) after just one month of knowing the doremi. That convinced me that i had to pursue this thing, and the next commonly accepted milestone would be the 10-12 after practicing it and nothing else for six months. It was performance-ready at roughly 180 exactly at the same time i was having my 18 months anniversary. Next one will be getting accepted into college and having to compete with people that are playing for over ten years, eeh. We´ll see.