how much important being talented ?

[penelope]

 Hi,
 My first question is what is being talented?  In spite of having avarage talent, does working too hard brings success? Or, you'll never be a bright pianist if you are not talented?
 Sincerely,

[Dikai]

try to think how would you define someone who's talented in math,
for music, it's pretty similiar i guess...
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if a person is talented and also works very hard, he will succeed beyond his dreams...
a person who is not quite so talented and who works very hard as well, he/she may acquire the perfection correct notes, but the musical part still needs to be developed.  naturally, no matter how hard the notes are, the more you practice, the better you become, but musicality cannot be forced.  i suppose you can say that someone who's musically talented knows how to breathe life into music.  someone who is not so talented, may have to "synthesize" it...  but after a period of time, he/she will be enlightened and become talented, through hard work, yes.  so it can be done...

[Brian Healey]

This topic has been discussed to death, here are just a few past threads:


https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,961.0.html

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3603.0.html

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4187.0.html

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5335.0.html

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,6615.0.html

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3421.0.html

Yay! I get to be Bernhard! 


Peace,
Bri

[ChampY]

I have a different perspective on this. I think musicality comes with maturity. That's means...if one talented young pianist log himself in the practise room for 10 hours a day, it's impossible for him to actaully play musically cuz he doesn't learn any thing about life.

Correct me if I am wrong.