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Topic: Which Chopin Etudes can you play and how long did it take YOU to learn them?  (Read 3799 times)

Offline salim

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Annnd how long have you been playing piano for? Capitalized 'you' so nobody says it will vary from person to person (which is obvious it will). By learn I mean to a good standard of performance. 

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You failed to put 'good' in capitals.
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I didn't attempt any Chopin etudes until my 3rd year in uni/conservatory  music school  performance program.  I had >10 years of playing under me, and I spent 10 months on two of them concurrently. One of them from op 10 and one of them from op 25.   standard was to formal jury panel guidelines, ie  
collegiate recital level ready or better.

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I didn't attempt any Chopin etudes until my 3rd year in uni/conservatory  music school  performance program.  I had >10 years of playing under me, and I spent 10 months on two of them concurrently. One of them from op 10 and one of them from op 25.   standard was to formal jury panel guidelines, ie  
collegiate recital level ready or better.

Cool ^^
btw, did you eventually get tired of hearing the etudes that you learnt or was it still good to listen to (weird question lol)?

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Cool ^^
btw, did you eventually get tired of hearing the etudes that you learnt or was it still good to listen to (weird question lol)?
only learned them because I had to. Don't like them all the much to begin with, so I was tired of listening to them before I started, which helped my interpretation since I didn't really listen to any recordings, when i wasn't practicing, i was doing literature reviews to discover pieces and scores I was not familiar with and expand my knowledge base beyond the standard cannon  8)

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Well...hm
op 25 no.2   in two or three weeks
op 10 no 4   in four or five weeks...or more

togeher whith some other pieces at the same period

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only learned them because I had to. Don't like them all the much to begin with, so I was tired of listening to them before I started, which helped my interpretation since I didn't really listen to any recordings, when i wasn't practicing, i was doing literature reviews to discover pieces and scores I was not familiar with and expand my knowledge base beyond the standard cannon  8)

Ah alright lol

Well...hm
op 25 no.2   in two or three weeks
op 10 no 4   in four or five weeks...or more

togeher whith some other pieces at the same period

Ah cool ^^
How long have you been playing piano?
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