Going from beginner to intermediate

[waldospe]

Hey Folks - hoping someone can give me some advice.

I'm a beginner and can play simple melodies in my right hand with even rhythm in my left.  I can do a couple of scales with some proficiency in one or both hands.  I can also run through a couple of the Hannon exercise.

I want to go from simple and beginner to more complex and begin learning how to be more independent with my hands on the keyboard.  I don't know if this should be through a piece of music or a series of exercises.

Either way I'm looking for helpful recommendations.

Appreciate the consideration and help!
Jeff

[outin]

I want to go from simple and beginner to more complex and begin learning how to be more independent with my hands on the keyboard.  I don't know if this should be through a piece of music or a series of exercises.

IMO that's irrelevant. The best way to advance is through good teaching.

[vaniii]

Agreeing, and building on outins very true response, I would like to add that intermediate and even advance players are in fact no different from beginners.

The true difference is that an advanced player listens to what they are doing, a beginner often does not, trying to imitate what they heard others do.

Without more information it would be difficult to give more advise.

Could you please elaborate:

How long have you been playing?
Are you actively receiving lessons?
Are you playing for recreation, are you hoping to 'go pro' or at least 'semi-pro' one day?
What is your current practise like?

The most important, do you listen to classical music objectively, or only for the pleasure?

[maestroanth]

I love vanii's response.

In techie age, listen to your music objectively over an electronic piano with a record/playback feature.  It plays it back for you unbiased.

I still can't play liszt or mendelssohn concerto as well as I like because my R.H. strains in pain in a tendonitis thing, but I can play liszt liebstraum, and an ounce of humility all of chopin's deliciousness melodies with brilliance...if I choose too. I just like the awesome etude stuff where "my" talent venn diagram doesn't necessarily rely in as a pianist in comparison to objective reality. My point is, what you want to do, and what your talent can do, doesn't always overlap.

Recorder buttons kinda objectively anchor's you as a pianist what you can do awesomely, vs. what you want to do.  It's weird too since I have a double-jointed R.H. pinky and IT SUCKS. I hear this objectively over technology.

[maestroanth]

Hey Folks - hoping someone can give me some advice.

I'm a beginner and can play simple melodies in my right hand with even rhythm in my left.  I can do a couple of scales with some proficiency in one or both hands.  I can also run through a couple of the Hannon exercise.

I want to go from simple and beginner to more complex and begin learning how to be more independent with my hands on the keyboard.  I don't know if this should be through a piece of music or a series of exercises.

Either way I'm looking for helpful recommendations.

Appreciate the consideration and help!
Jeff

To your question specifically....all the above.  Yes, music is a formal logic that is derived from composers through means of a the most logical instrument called the piano.  However, their works of creation and good theoretical exercises do not always overlap so it's good to study both.