HELP! I need an opinion or advice ....

[evkity]

Hello, everybody. I write for a first time here and I'm happy that there are  places like this one, where we can help each other and knowing interesting things about the piano and everything about this sphere
I have a question and maybe I need and advice or opinion. The problem is that from 1-2 years I haven't enought time to practice  on the piano... I have played the piano since I was 8, and now I'm 21 years old. My fear is that that all my tehnique will dissapear.... and my qiestion is - is it possible to return my skills or it's late for me... I want to play again hard things.. and maybe a concert.
P.S. now I have the time.. and what tehnique exersices I must play...
Thank you ! : )

[mhhudson15]

Well, even though I myself am no adult, I do know that it is never too late to pick up piano. I am not saying that everyone will become a concert pianist because that depends on many outside factors other than age. However, there is a website started by pianist Albert Frantz. His teacher gave up on him when he was a child, but he took it up again at seventeen. You can read his whole biography as well.

https://key-notes.com/albert-frantz.html

The best of luck!

[evkity]

Thanks for your opinion and advice I was a little depressed about that fact... but now I am more motivated and I will find the needed time ... I'm studying Pedagogy of Music and Some day maybe i want to be a piano teacher, but we study so many subjects that there is no time for piano... I will do everything to play more.

[bronnestam]

I studied piano playing from age 11-19, then I had to quit municipal music school and went to the university. Engineering studies. I later bought a digital piano but I practiced most occasionally and during the last two decades I'm afraid I played very little altogether. When I decided to make a "comeback" near the end of 2011 I found out I was in a DREADFUL shape. I couldn't play anything. I was 45 years old.

Today I have regained my old "skills" and surpassed them big time. I play pieces I could not even dream of learning, ever. I have a much better practicing technique today than before and most of all - I think I understand the music so much better now, because I have matured.

I used to focus a lot on technical exercises back in my teens and I found it was very boring. Today I integrate my exercises in my learning process with new pieces. If I work with a piece in, let's say,  c flat minor, I might do some scales in that key, or some other simple finger exercises. But I think the funniest way to exercise is to pick parts of the piece itself and make little variations of them, create my exercises from there if you like. I have noticed that I play with better confidence if I have allowed myself to "trash" the piece a few times. 

You learn a bit differently when you are an adult compared to when you are a child, but that doesn't say it is a worse way. It is just different. I would say that I plan more, evaluate more and play less today.

[evkity]

Thank you i just left the piano for about 2 years ... but for me it's too long.. i played but, not enought and i lost practise .... I started these days to play Cherny's etudes op.740. I hope that i will return my tehnique and my training at all, because i want piano to be  my profession some day.... Thank you again!

[indianajo]

I quit piano age 16, took off while doing college/Army service/years of unpaid "overtime"   to pay the rent and rack up decent performance reviews.
I bought a piano age 33, it took about a year to get back where I had been.  I'm way beyond that level now, in my sixties with time to seriously practice.  So don't worry.