For people who are thinking about giving up: Don't. Keep problem solving. Consider these two, equally true statements: 1) Learning the piano is a difficult task. 2) Never in human history has it been easier to learn the piano. Learning classical piano, at a technical level, can be thought of as a series of problems that need to be solved. And the wealth of information out there is only increasing. If you're running into a challenge, take heart that many people have experienced the same problem, and that solutions exist. Don't rush it and always be experimenting.
Mr. Dupuis, the work you have done in TH-cam to provide so good music and so many highly valuable information about music and piano is AMAZING! Thanks a lot!
what a wonderful video! Many people don't enjoy the process, they don't have patience. the problem is when the guy comes to try to play the moonlight sonata because it's "easy" (it's just arpeggios) - they say.......
such an amazing idea you had regarding the app! looking forward to that! Amazing video, super helpful many thanks for your effort in putting it together. kind regard from Brazil!
I have a question for everyone? If you attend music conservatory or 4 year university as a music performance major , how many repertoires do you learn in 4 years ? I’m just curious roughly how many pieces you learn from such institutions … and then do you guys continue to learn new pieces on your own throughout your lifetime … do you continue to take lessons … I’m just curious and wondering 😊
Playing instruments is a full life dedication, this is needed to do well and for almost all people with jobs outside the music industry that is not reasonable to achieve! Better listen to music or if you feel passion and have some time left where music could be your outlet, just focus on playing a few songs if you like to get some satisfaction.. Learning a different language is more easy than learning music theory and training your muscles at the same time, while most instruments are also not comfortable at all, I tried some and its just a long road of pain for very small gains..
Getting a right teacher is so crucial, especially if you are time strained 😊… I’ve never understood how virtual lessons could be effective … great points you are addressing here❤
I agree. I started at the age of 53, 2 years ago and I had the first teacher for 4 weeks, the second one for 5 months, the third one for 9 months and I finally found the perfect teacher who I have now had for 7 months. She has taught me more in 7 months than I learnt in the previous 1 and half years. The right guidance is absolutely critical.
@ Good for you ! It’s interesting how even professors with PHD sometimes cannot explain well, and be a great teacher … like they can play well but cannot explain how and why … maybe I’m just a bad student…
Merci pour tout ça c est très motivant de vous écouter. Pour me garder motiver dans mes progrès pianistique je tiens un journal dans lequel je note ce que je fais au piano. Et, bien sur, j'ai un professeur de piano! Ce qui est très important pour garder la motivation. J'ai aussi récemment réunis dans un cahier toutes les partitions que j'ai apprise dans les deux dernières années avec mon professeur. C'est très encourageant de réaliser que j'ai appris autant de pièces de musique en regardant ce cahier. En ce qui concerne les exercices au piano, j'ai toujours aimé faire des exercices au piano car cela réchauffe et assouplis les doigts. Mon professeur me fait apprendre des Études de Czerny entre autres et j'aime beaucoup! J'ai commencé le piano à l'âge de 15 ans et j'ai aujourd'hui 66 ans. Je n'en aie pas fait un métier malheureusement mais j'ai repris sérieusement l'étude du piano voilà plus de 2 ans avec un grand professeur de piano Russe qui vit à Montréal. Avec lui j'ai fait énormément de progrès au piano. Je suis très motivé à poursuivre et à apprendre. J'essaie de ne pas me comparer aux autres et j'accepte mes limites. J'aime beaucoup vos capsules vidéos, merci pour tout ça.
I started aged 10 in 1995. For me the beginning was just the half an hour daily practice I owed to my parents. Not until learning the first movement of Beethoven's 14th did I become truly motivated. That was after 4 years of slow progress. Then I had the motivation and a 3-hr a day practice routine. I'm 39 now and am still grateful to my parents for making me promise to practice half an hour a day.
I had may be unrealistic expectations when I started, because I learned piano from 6 to 10 and I progressed quickly in the beginning, and there was time where I didn't understand why some days I played less good that the previous one, or why I can't play better a piece which was the same difficulty level that the one I just learned. I didn't give up and now I'm 7 years in, learning Chopin Op 31 and understanding better that : it's very difficult, it takes time to assimilate and I will be able to play it eventually (not like a concert pianist but good enough) I started cello last year : I have 0 expectations and all my piano experience make me appreciate more the journey and the short pieces I'm learning the instrument with. And yes, a teacher is very important.
Just be patient, once done with the piece, put it aside, move to different repertoire, occasionally play through it, and every now and then spend a day or 2 rehearsing the piece again. It'll become better every instance of brushing it up.
it was really good the hint to practice before another habbit, because for me now a days it's being hard to stop and start practcing, but one I started i go for 1h of practice kind of easy
Le piano étant l’instrument de musique le plus populaire c’est tout à fait normal pour les débutants de quitter. Je connais pas mal de gens qui ont juste entendu une belle chanson et souhaitent savoir jouer la mélodie avec une doigt et c’est tout😂 Pour moi c’est une autre histoire. Quand j’étais petit j’ai commencé par jouer du clavier électronique, mais au fil du temps j’apprécie de plus en plus la musicalité du piano, et donc j’ai fait le changement. Avec de la motivation interne c’est beaucoup plus facile de ne pas quitter😊cela fait déjà huit ans que je joue du piano
TRANSPOSE IN C-DUR, AND AFTER PLAYING IN ORIGINAL E-DUR OR G-DUR, OR WHATELSE ABOUT IS. :D If you have Transpose Function, and if you have not, than playing iz halfscale in c-dur, and after in 1/1 full the Tonalitet. :D
I have noticed that the genz people lack patience. They want instant gratification and do not want to work on things to gain mastery. And then other people don’t want to learn how to read notation so they max out at a certain point and quit.
Definitely relate to the latter, and to some extent the former. Due to extensive history making electronic music and hip hop, my composing ability greatly exceeds my technical chops and I still can’t read notation. Can write pieces that are unreasonably good for someone at my skill level but this just reinforces my ego and refusal to do any of the hard boring work 😂 Definitely hitting a wall
For people who are thinking about giving up: Don't. Keep problem solving.
Consider these two, equally true statements:
1) Learning the piano is a difficult task.
2) Never in human history has it been easier to learn the piano.
Learning classical piano, at a technical level, can be thought of as a series of problems that need to be solved. And the wealth of information out there is only increasing. If you're running into a challenge, take heart that many people have experienced the same problem, and that solutions exist. Don't rush it and always be experimenting.
Mr. Dupuis, the work you have done in TH-cam to provide so good music and so many highly valuable information about music and piano is AMAZING! Thanks a lot!
Thank you
what a wonderful video! Many people don't enjoy the process, they don't have patience. the problem is when the guy comes to try to play the moonlight sonata because it's "easy" (it's just arpeggios) - they say.......
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such an amazing idea you had regarding the app! looking forward to that! Amazing video, super helpful many thanks for your effort in putting it together. kind regard from Brazil!
I have a question for everyone? If you attend music conservatory or 4 year university as a music performance major , how many repertoires do you learn in 4 years ? I’m just curious roughly how many pieces you learn from such institutions … and then do you guys continue to learn new pieces on your own throughout your lifetime … do you continue to take lessons … I’m just curious and wondering 😊
Depends of the conservatoire but you learn 1-2 recital and concerto each year, and of course after you keep learning on your own and ev lessons
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So 4 concertos and roughly 20 pieces in 4 years 🤔
Playing instruments is a full life dedication, this is needed to do well and for almost all people with jobs outside the music industry that is not reasonable to achieve! Better listen to music or if you feel passion and have some time left where music could be your outlet, just focus on playing a few songs if you like to get some satisfaction.. Learning a different language is more easy than learning music theory and training your muscles at the same time, while most instruments are also not comfortable at all, I tried some and its just a long road of pain for very small gains..
Getting a right teacher is so crucial, especially if you are time strained 😊… I’ve never understood how virtual lessons could be effective … great points you are addressing here❤
Thanks
I agree. I started at the age of 53, 2 years ago and I had the first teacher for 4 weeks, the second one for 5 months, the third one for 9 months and I finally found the perfect teacher who I have now had for 7 months. She has taught me more in 7 months than I learnt in the previous 1 and half years. The right guidance is absolutely critical.
@
Good for you ! It’s interesting how even professors with PHD sometimes cannot explain well, and be a great teacher … like they can play well but cannot explain how and why … maybe I’m just a bad student…
Merci pour tout ça c est très motivant de vous écouter. Pour me garder motiver dans mes progrès pianistique je tiens un journal dans lequel je note ce que je fais au piano. Et, bien sur, j'ai un professeur de piano! Ce qui est très important pour garder la motivation. J'ai aussi récemment réunis dans un cahier toutes les partitions que j'ai apprise dans les deux dernières années avec mon professeur. C'est très encourageant de réaliser que j'ai appris autant de pièces de musique en regardant ce cahier. En ce qui concerne les exercices au piano, j'ai toujours aimé faire des exercices au piano car cela réchauffe et assouplis les doigts. Mon professeur me fait apprendre des Études de Czerny entre autres et j'aime beaucoup! J'ai commencé le piano à l'âge de 15 ans et j'ai aujourd'hui 66 ans. Je n'en aie pas fait un métier malheureusement mais j'ai repris sérieusement l'étude du piano voilà plus de 2 ans avec un grand professeur de piano Russe qui vit à Montréal. Avec lui j'ai fait énormément de progrès au piano. Je suis très motivé à poursuivre et à apprendre. J'essaie de ne pas me comparer aux autres et j'accepte mes limites. J'aime beaucoup vos capsules vidéos, merci pour tout ça.
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I started aged 10 in 1995. For me the beginning was just the half an hour daily practice I owed to my parents. Not until learning the first movement of Beethoven's 14th did I become truly motivated. That was after 4 years of slow progress. Then I had the motivation and a 3-hr a day practice routine. I'm 39 now and am still grateful to my parents for making me promise to practice half an hour a day.
Thats really great 😊
Thank you so much for this video. this is what I needed to hear 💗. I will love your app sound so amazing 😭💗
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I had may be unrealistic expectations when I started, because I learned piano from 6 to 10 and I progressed quickly in the beginning, and there was time where I didn't understand why some days I played less good that the previous one, or why I can't play better a piece which was the same difficulty level that the one I just learned.
I didn't give up and now I'm 7 years in, learning Chopin Op 31 and understanding better that : it's very difficult, it takes time to assimilate and I will be able to play it eventually (not like a concert pianist but good enough)
I started cello last year : I have 0 expectations and all my piano experience make me appreciate more the journey and the short pieces I'm learning the instrument with.
And yes, a teacher is very important.
Good thing 😊
Just be patient, once done with the piece, put it aside, move to different repertoire, occasionally play through it, and every now and then spend a day or 2 rehearsing the piece again. It'll become better every instance of brushing it up.
What's the deal with the zooming and panning? makes me dizzy
it was really good the hint to practice before another habbit, because for me now a days it's being hard to stop and start practcing, but one I started i go for 1h of practice kind of easy
Le piano étant l’instrument de musique le plus populaire c’est tout à fait normal pour les débutants de quitter. Je connais pas mal de gens qui ont juste entendu une belle chanson et souhaitent savoir jouer la mélodie avec une doigt et c’est tout😂
Pour moi c’est une autre histoire. Quand j’étais petit j’ai commencé par jouer du clavier électronique, mais au fil du temps j’apprécie de plus en plus la musicalité du piano, et donc j’ai fait le changement. Avec de la motivation interne c’est beaucoup plus facile de ne pas quitter😊cela fait déjà huit ans que je joue du piano
What do you think about Alfred's adult piano all-in-one course book?
Never heard
TRANSPOSE IN C-DUR, AND AFTER PLAYING IN ORIGINAL E-DUR OR G-DUR, OR WHATELSE ABOUT IS. :D If you have Transpose Function, and if you have not, than playing iz halfscale in c-dur, and after in 1/1 full the Tonalitet. :D
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I have noticed that the genz people lack patience. They want instant gratification and do not want to work on things to gain mastery. And then other people don’t want to learn how to read notation so they max out at a certain point and quit.
Exactly
If you want instant gratification better start a coke habit and use the excess energy and focus on piano practice 😂
Definitely relate to the latter, and to some extent the former. Due to extensive history making electronic music and hip hop, my composing ability greatly exceeds my technical chops and I still can’t read notation. Can write pieces that are unreasonably good for someone at my skill level but this just reinforces my ego and refusal to do any of the hard boring work 😂 Definitely hitting a wall