How Learning

[frigo]

I wonder what learning ryhthm do you have, i. e., how many time do you take to learn some piece, an average of course, you can say it, for example, how many pieces do you learn in 3,4, 5 months, you wish.
With "learn" I mean being one step behind your final interpretation, forgeting that learning a piece is never over and we can see the same piece some years later and have from it a different perspective.
It's just to help me to do a comparison with myself.

[frigo]

Why do I feel like no one answers me?

[webern78]

Why do I feel like no one answers me?

Because no one is answering you?

[piano_ant]

I think the reason is because this question is so...hard to answer. It completely depends on many individual factors.

For example. Within the last year I learned about four pieces solid in the first six months, and within this six months It looks like I'll finish about eight, But i have to get back the ones I learned in the previous six months as well. So the number varies...

[faulty_damper]

Why do I feel like no one answers me?

Your question is difficult to understand the way you phrased it.  At first, I thought you were asking about rhythm, as in the number to notes within a beat.  Then I understood it to mean the learning rhythm which is an entirely different idea.  Either way, your question was not clear.  You'll get responses when your question is clearly phrases and presented.  No one wants to eat a hamburger with the mayonnaise and meat on top of the bun.  I don't think many people would even want to touch it, either.

[beethoven_fan]

No one wants to eat a hamburger with the mayonnaise and meat on top of the bun.  I don't think many people would even want to touch it, either.

I don't like hamburgers.

[a-sharp]

right - difficult question to answer. the process is different for each person, and each piece... The easiest way to determine how to approach a piece is to take an overall look at it - perhaps listen to it, and then just dive in somewhere. Pretty soon you'll discover how best to approach it to get it into your system quickly.
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ditto about the hamburgers. not sure what meat has to do with music? ... some people actually don't want to touch any of those ingredients separately or together or in any way mixed up. 

[general disarray]

Well, as the old saying goes, "compare and despair."

Some of the greatest pianists in history had to slave like dogs to accomplish what their peers could toss off in a few days.  Gieseking, for one, needed very little in the way of practicing.  Concerning pianists who had to slave away, he is reported to have said, "Those who are dirty must bathe."

In any art form, it's the results that matter -- not the time it takes to get them.

[dan101]

Much depends on the length and difficulty of the piece. Also, as mentioned before, different people learn at different speeds. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about your time that it takes to learning, but rather at the effectiveness of your final product.

In other words, learn well, not quickly (unless, of course, you're fortunate enough to be able to do both). Good luck.

[frigo]

Much depends on the length and difficulty of the piece. Also, as mentioned before, different people learn at different speeds. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about your time that it takes to learning, but rather at the effectiveness of your final product.

In other words, learn well, not quickly (unless, of course, you're fortunate enough to be able to do both). Good luck.

Thank you very much, question answered