Is it to difficult?

[rlefebvr]

I know this will sound like a dumb thing to ask, but how does one add all the small marks that are used when typing in a non-English language (accents, tildes, etc.)?

Change the Keybord settings in Windows to French instead of English.
The letters of the keys change.
There are also French and Bilingual keyboards
that show the proper lettering on the keyboard.

Just like there must be for every other language on the planet.

[Antnee]

16...

[thierry13]

And how many hours do you make a day?

[Spatula]

try using crlt + 135 to get those funny accents and a whole combination,

like 130..132...ect, that's how you get the funny dots and accents  

either shift, ctrl or alt... can't remember

[eViLben]

Actually i'm 9 y-o and i play Balakirev's islamey, Ravel's Scarbo, Prokofiev's second piano concerto, and liszt sonata.
did i beat you all ?
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[Saturn]

did i beat you all ?

At what?

This forum isn't a competition.  Or is it?

Sometimes I get the feeling that the entire classical music world is a competition.  Every musician trying to prove his superiority over the others.  I find it disgusting.

[eViLben]

that was humour, surely a bad one if you didn't get it ;p
sorry ...

[Antnee]

Maybe three on average...

sometimes more, sometimes less....

I agree about the music world being a big competition, Unless you're like one of the greats, because then you don't have to compete with others because you are already awesome and have been recognized , you just have to make the music. But for the other millions of pianists striving to be the best, it is a competition. Just make sure you take a breath once in a while and listen to the beautiful music that all of your hard work has made!!  

-Tony-

[pixie_123]

THIERRY i am also 14 but i have only been playing for 6 months i have accomplished chopin(nocturne), beethoven(moonlight), flight of the bumblebee and the basics like fur elise solfeggietto. With out lessons i have only recently started piano lessons to improve my theory.

But you are truly a great pianist to even think of tackling the Tchaikovsky.1 despite what some other pianists in this thread say about not even thinking of contending with the rachmaninoff concerti, i think the speed you learn the piano truly reveals your great gift and if you are willing you should attempt the rach concertos (even though schummans concerto in A minor is beautiful).  

[JK]

Why do people not get it!!!! THERE IS MORE TO PLAYING THE PIANO THEN JUST PLAYING THE NOTES!!!!! Technically there are a lot of 14 year olds who could just about technically manage a Rach concerto but they haven't developed musically or intellectually or even emotionally enough to understand the music and play them well!!!! (in my opinion!).

[pianochic]

Hi Everyone!

   I am a 14 year old pianist from Guam. Guam is part of U.S. territory. (just to make sure) heh. And I also think that playing piano is not just playing the notes, but to also play it with emotion and understanding of the music.   Thank you.

[thierry13]

Play with emotion is one of my strenghts to the piano. I often deeply touch the ones i play for and with the nocturne i can bring them to tear. You're absolutely right when you say that music is not only notes, but it's not because we are 14 that we can't understand the pieces. Anyway i personally think that i'm not ready for the rach 3 yet... i could begin the rach 2 with big work... but i will still wait to play them. And the tchaikovsky is really manageable for anyone or allmost...and pixie have you finished the third movement of the moonlight sonata?

[rhapsody]

hey thierry... to play the chopin etude 25.12 in ONE freakin' year???

are you a human?
what's your secret? any divine intervention (kidding!)?
how long do you practise a day?

[bet33]

i have a little something to add...

people are getting carried away here for a few reasons:

one, this is the internet, people can claim whatever they want, and even believe what they claim... but reality and fiction are very different things...

its simply, a person who has been playing for 6 months hears things differently from a person who has been playing for 20 years...

what one may call "finished" can to another person be a first read...

what i mean is, maybe the poster here, feels he has finished the music... when in fact to a more experienced player... there is much work to be done.

Also, on another note, the poster has "started" the etudes and such,

when they are at correct tempo and correctly interpreted, they will be done... not until then...

therefore, there is nothing amazing about the progress at hand... simply because, i can get my pet TUNA to start the GODOWSKY studies and the ALKAN concerto, etc etc...

of course, he wont get passed the first measure (he does try hard), but, he is working on them

i dont mean to imply that the poster, cant play the pieces at all... only that in reality most people who say they are finished with something within the first months of lessons, usually find out that people who have been playing for years have a more discriminating way of looking at things...

[thierry13]

These pieces are not finished. Only my nocturne is ALLMOST finished. I have made a real big progress in the revolutionary study, but she's real not finished. I will try to finish my actual repertoire this summer. But at the end of the coming year, they will all be finished and other more. And when i say finished it is ready to play on scene. But for the moment, none of these are totally finished.

[goalevan]

so thierry which pieces did you learn to prepare for revolutionary etude or did you just start working on it after the nocturne and gain the technique from the piece itself?

[thierry13]

I did nothing. Somehow just by doing the nocturne i was ready to tackle it. Just alone without teacher i made some parts of the piece alone, and was able to do it at tempo or almost. I work this one with my teacher since only 2 lessons. In fact i have allmost made no exercisses for the moment with my teacher. I will make some this summer to upgrade my technique a little and that's all.

[Terry-Piano]

Hello Thierry.... My name is Thierry and im from MOntreal too .. im 20...peut etre qu'on devrait se rencontrer et jouer ensemble... je connais plusieurs etudes comme toi... juste pas au complet..j'habite dans les laurentides

[thierry13]

On pourrait! J'habite à St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu.

For the others: i don't practise SO much a day. I PLAY for fun 1-3 hours per day,and i pratice seriously 15 minutes a week... I mean by play for fun : no slow practice, just making the pieces i like, just do them as i feel to. And i've stopped working on etude 25.12 to finish my other repertoire... she will maybe be for later.