help improving

[supapiano225]

hi i want to get really good quite fast.
i have been playing mozart minuets and chopin prelude in e minor
and have been playing for 3 years.
how long should i practice for to improve.
i love the piano soo much and am willing to practice for ages each day.

[gyzzzmo]

I'll tell you the totally unexpected, i hope you wont fall from your chair because of this info:

Get a good teacher and practise as much as possible.

[pianisten1989]

I'll tell you the totally unexpected, i hope you wont fall from your chair because of this info:

Get a good teacher and practise as much as possible.

Omg, how can you say something like that?! it's... it's.. Chocking!

No, but seriously... He's right.

Just let me get this straight: You've been playing for 3 years, and played a couple of mozart minuets and a chopin prelude? Nothing else?
It's not to be a douche-bag, just want to know.

Anyhow, get a teacher. Record yourself as much as posible (And listen to the recordings), fix what you don't like and so on...
I practise like 10 hours a day, but I know great pianists who only practise 3 hours, but still are very good. So it's about finding what's best for you.

[supapiano225]

but if i had a really good teacher and practiced for ages each day
what level should i be on by now?
what kinda stuff did you play after 3 years of learning?

 

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

I don't think there's a level you "should" be in.

After 3 years of learning, I was not playing very advanced music at all, I think probably pieces like Beethoven's sonatina in F major. (I'm not sure where you're from but its around grade 4 RCM... your Chopin prelude is grade 7 RCM). Coordination wasn't (and still isn't) one of my strengths, I refused to practice, and I was around 11 years old. I didn't have your motivation at all!  
Some people might be able to learn a piece in a few days, while it takes others many months.

I know kids who got to level 10 RCM in a year or two of playing piano... it's taken me 7 or 8 !

Everyone is different... we all have different strengths and weaknesses... you kind of have to just work at your own pace Also, it's not just how difficult your pieces are, or what level you're in, but how well you play.
A good teacher definitely does help  in so so many ways. Such as pointing out mistakes you never noticed before, teaching you how to practise effectively... I don't know what I'd do without a piano teacher!!

Good luck =))
 
 

[gyzzzmo]

There is no 'level you should be in', you should just do your best. Plus it is not about 'what' pieces you play, it is 'how' you play them.

[supapiano225]

Also guys when i said 3 years i kinda ment 2 years and twelve months.
 

p.s. i do have a teacher, i take weekley lessons

[countrymath]

Just curious: Where are you from?

[supapiano225]

Australia