At my middle school, there weren't much talented kids, musically. ...On YouTube there are videos of them playing performances at this school, and they are so advanced!!! Schubert Impromptus, Edward Grieg, Liszt Etudes. And that is just piano. ...It's a very small school, yet with his talent, I am scared that I will most certainly give up piano. I mean, please! I can barely play a Bach invention, and I am learning.. Well, look at my signature.
I guess... But I mean, it is very frustrating to witness that.
chances are even though some of them may be much stronger in certain musical aspects you might just have a natural ability to for example really interpret slower poetic works with more sensitivity, etc stuff like that.
What Am I to do coming into a school where he kids are higher level than me, have teachers, and are competitive ? Do I compete? Do I give it up? What are your suggestions? And the best advice is experience, so help me out guys, please!
Seeing kids that are better than you should inspire you to practice dude!
Several days my a**s Haha. But I get you now. Its just that they will always be better in the sense that they are well-taught. i don't know about that./
Its just that they will always be better in the sense that they are well-taught. i don't know about that./
Being "well taught" may assist up to a point, but what matters is being "well learned", and that is entirely up to you.
GUYS!!! THis kid Kevin, I know him, he is in my class this year. He is very amiable, but I never knew he played piano. LOOOKK!!!! Now you can see what I am talking about? Maybe now you could feel my utter frustration!!!!
Also, if he continues, will he always be better than me?
Let me rephrase... Will I be able to plylay something at the TECHNICAL level of Racmhaninoff op. 32 no. 10 at all soon or ever
I feel very excited to tell you the truth!
..which led to me trying to conquer Rachmaninoff's first sonata a couple years ago...ah, silly, ignorant me.
I didn't start playing until I was 13.
Or tying your shoes! I didn't know how to tie my shoes till I was like seven or eight. Does that matter now? No! Wanna know why? Because EVERYONE can tie their shoes!
Still kinda embarrassing though
I applaud you for trying. You... Are a hero.
Professional pianist
Nah. I was pretty much the same. The girls at school used to love to tie them for me. If they hadn't grown out of that I might never have learnt.
The age stigma is weird.Its like non-pianists, or less experienced pianists, think that professionals do all their learning before they turn 19 years 5 months and 6 days old. - thereafter, you're done. Bad luck if you didn't memorise the entire repertoire.
I think also that without a teacher you will sound terrible because you do everything your own way.
because you do everything your own way.
I keep telling you, I'm an amateur. I do it for love, not money.
One day, that will be your aim.
You know how they say there are no heroes in war. Same thing applies here. The media tries to portray Rach 1 as a pretty thing, full of good intentions and pretty results. But here's the dirty truth: Rach 1 is hell. A true Rach 1 story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a Rach 1 story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true Rach 1 story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
I asked my teacher about this one time. I said "Why is it that professional pianists seem to barely even observe the markings of the composer, and yet I'm expected to adhere to them strictly?" He told me, "You need to first learn how to do things the way you're told to do them before you can decide for yourself how you would like them to be done." And then I watched as he gradually slackened his grip on how I played the piece. I don't trust myself yet to do everything "my own way", but I'm working towards it.
Your teacher is right.
I prefer to explain it as "if you take someone elses musical direction you increase your dynamic/expressive vocabulary - rather than confine yourself to what you are currently capable of"
You would not believe (or maybe you would) he number of times I have made a musical decision that also happened to make the piece easier