How many hours a day do I need to practice if i want to do level 8?

[mobydick]

I am studying around 1 to 1:30 everyday, but its not enough...

[johnmar78]

at higher advaced level, you need 2-4 hours a day. It varies person to person. Some are prone to injuries, that they fall into a trap thinking more you practice and a better endurance you will get. As matter of fact this is wrong. If you are born with strong hands,,I suppose,,,,it a natural gift.

[49410enrique]

there's no set number imho.  in the words of the artist in residence at my previous school,

(paraphrasing) you practice however long it takes you to accomplish the assigned performance objective by your instructor before the next lesson.

that is you're not done practicing until you've corrected the error or learned the new section or polished the passage or increased the tempo, etc etc etc in order to present a completed  task set fourth by your piano teacher.

if you follow that you'll seldom not practice enough, and really will self limit on the 'practicing too much' side too since it is self adapting to your particular skill level and current repertoire.

[lousyplayer]

oiyy

[hfmadopter]

At what ever level, productive practice is what counts. You can muttle around for hours on end and gain absolutely nothing. You need to slow down to correct mistakes, sometimes painstakingly slow to say, accomplish fingering or timing etc. So what ever that takes, then move on. As you progress it takes more time to get through more dificult parts because the more difficult parts are more difficult than in the past. But sometimes you can make progress in 30 minutes of direct assault on a certain run or cord arrangement. If that makes any sense !

I like to work till my head kind of fogs up on me, not so alert to mistakes, take notice. Then it's time to at least walk away for a bit, come back later. Yesterday that was about 3 hours of decent work. Went to the store came back, got another hour in, then went off to the mothers day events feeling pretty good about my morning session. Today I haven't started, heads already foggy. I might just do 30 minutes in a little while here. Just came in from cutting the grass, need a nice drink of water.
David

[hfmadopter]

Just wanted to add, I remember learning Beethovens Sonata 8 Op 13 ( Pathetique), it took me a couple of months many hours of work on this alone separate from my other work. It's level 8+, with no teacher I'd still be there learning it I think ! But learn it I did and played memorized in a recital that spring. The thing is nobody told me it was level 8 she just gave that to me to learn, it was next after Grillen. I saw here at this site that it's level 8. I remember asking if she was sure I could do this ? She said yes and was right but heavilly dependent on her teaching skill.
David