Here is my 1 year piano progress from being a beginner buying a piano in august 2021, to now. I hope this gives some insight into how progress can be made with piano from not being able to play to knowing a few pieces.
To clear something up due to some negative comments, in this video I learn small parts of pieces I liked, to this day I have only learnt 3 or 4 pieces fully to the end. The parts you see me play are likely all I know
I don’t know Why you need to show something that is not true at all… Doing this you make people feel unconfortable with their results… For all the people: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE you play like the first clips within a month of practice since complete beginner… You are clearly a 1 to 2 year piano player since the first clip of the video.. The posture of you hand, the relax of your fingers, this is something you gain after 1/1.5year at least… I have played 1.5 year and i am able to play very bad not all of the pieces you played and i constantly have played a 1 hour average every day since the first time… Please let’s be honest and let people gain their real results! Stop clickbaiting bro ❤️🎶
@@omsiravvel7805 bro I’ve been playing for 5 months and people would say i’ve been playing for years but it all comes down to the work and discipline you put in I have a répertoire of 17+ pieces I used to practice 6-7h a day but now 4-5h because of school It all comes down to the work you put in not everybody has the same progress
This is bullshit and even whit 7 hours a day your quality or work get lower especially if ye don’t has a teacher,playing pieces that need years of piano in the second week is ridiculous
Good video - I think the negativity comes because they don’t see the amount of takes that had happened pre upload. TH-cam is a powerful tool for learning things - I’ve definitely used that a lot since I started a year ago. Keep it up you’re doing well.
I have been playing piano with a teacher for 3 months and only just starting to play with two hands. You were doing this within a week? If this is true, you are very gifted.
Very inspirational. I think it shows the difference between the classic - start with Ode to Joy method of learning piano "the right way" and the video game version of just teaching your fingers how to do certain things through muscle memory. No way you can sight read and play a whole piece, but it's super cool. I'm 53. My first keyboard (with weighted keys) will arrive next week. I look forward to doing both. I'll take lessons, but I also want to just learn bits of songs that sound impressive. Thanks for the inspiration. I have no doubt you did this as you said. It just takes lots of work.
After six months of teaching myself from scratch I was playing Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no 3 to a fully packed out audience at Carnegie hall so yeah not bad progress for yourself!
Thank you, I'm sure I'm no where near that level of perception, I think my biggest tip for that is to listen to lots and lots of piano music all the time, it starts to become more natural
Learning to read music is critical early on. Sheet music is way more than just what notes to press, it has literally everything you need to know about the song. You will likely mess up finger placement, and get used to other "bad" habits that learning sheet music would have otherwise fixed early on. Great progress regardless though!
If you are a beginner and commenting this is fake, I think that when you look back on his performance after some years, you will find that his playing was as a beginner having fun with small excerpts of popular works.
This is exactly right, thanks. Lots of people are misunderstanding what I've clearly said - I'm learning parts of these pieces then moving on, not learning full 7 minute pieces!
100% fake..started as a beginner myself, practiced 2-3 hours a day in the beginning with piano lessons once a week and your finger skills etc. looked very confident at the beginning. Either very hard to believe or you are truly gifted/played before..
I guess I'm "truly gifted" then. Unfortunately this is the internet and there's no way I can prove to you this is real except for my own word, wether or not you believe that is your problem
I don’t know Why you need to show something that is not true at all… Doing this you make people feel unconfortable with their results… For all the people: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE you play like the first clips within a month of practice since complete beginner… You are clearly a 1 to 2 year piano player since the first clip of the video.. The posture of you hand, the relax of your fingers, this is something you gain after 1/1.5year at least… I have played 1.5 year and i am able to play very bad not all of the pieces you played and i constantly have played a 1 hour average every day since the first time… Please let’s be honest and let people gain their real results! Stop clickbaiting bro ❤️🎶
Hey nice job really, you’re very talented and I can see all the effort put in this first year. I also had a question tho… Have you finished any piece completely? it would be great to put some of them on your yt, cuz I would 100% watch them .
I've finished a few pieces yep, I did a recording test but I guess something about being in front of a camera makes me mess up. I'll be posting some full pieces here eventually!
great video but I also started teaching myself the piano when I was 14. I played very difficult pieces so the advice I have is to be careful with technique because playing some difficult pieces early can hinder or damage your technique I will give you a list of some options Liszt Romance, Tchaikovsky sweet dreams op 39 no 21, Eduard Schutt a la Nuit op 60 no1 other than that keep up the good work
Next month I’m buying a keyboard to learn piano, I have a 1 year goal so I can play like you and many others! Should I start to learn with TH-cam or piano lessons?🔥💪🏽 Awesome video, got me more hype to learn the piano👏🏽
I recommend starting with TH-cam, the channel PianoSecrets is amazing for learning classical. Definitely don't rely on TH-cam though, learn to read sheet music within the first few months. Piano lessons are good at teaching you the notes but 99% of the playing comes from your own practice. Good luck!
Don’t feel bad if you don’t get to this level in a year. This is like 99% faked, coming from a pianist. Polyrhythms themselves usually take 10 months to learn on average, and he was there on the first week. Don’t feel bad if it take 3 weeks to learn both hands. Piano is very hard. I have mixed feelings on these videos, because they could inspire, but when you come back more experienced you realize they were just lying for views or something. There is literally no way to be that good the first week. Not trying to say he’s a liar or bad or anything, (maybe a liar actually) but don’t be discouraged if you aren’t this good in a year (btw by 10 months I don’t mean it takes 10 months of just that, I mean it’ll be like 10 months before you are ready to want to learn that, and that is if you are a fast learner)
@@prizm8530 sorry how does a polyrhythm take 10 months to learn? Are you practicing one minute a week?? I am not a liar, if there's any way I can prove to you my progress speak up. Like I've said, I bought the piano in August 2021 with no prior experience.
How much do you play per day? Did you play before the same quantity of hours? Did you have some kind of pain (like finger or hand) during your practices/plays? Do you do some kind of exercise for warm up or practice technique or just play pieces? Are you still learning piano theory? Something you wish you could have done learn / practice more the first day of learning? Any objectives of why you are learning piano? (like for fun or or being able to play somehting or improve at it or something). Best piano channels for learning? Do you think that to practice in an advanced way after playing a lot is necessary a grand piano or an upright piano is enough? (I know keyboards work too but not so good and those 2). How old are you? Do you regret not learning piano before or you were planning to do it after? Great progress, keep it up
I'll answer your questions I order: When I bought the piano I was spending hours per day, average maybe 3 hours a day, some days I'd do 6 or 7. However as time went on I was spending less and less time per day. Sometimes I would get some wrist aching yes. I don't have any warmups or exercise. I'm not learning piano theory as all my music theory comes from playing trumpet (only difference is having to read bass clef). I think in the first times learning I wish I picked an easy piece and stuck with it and built up from there. It's good to learn a full piece instead of lots of bits of different pieces.
Continued: I'm learning for fun, and because I love classical piano music so playing it is even better than listening to it. PianoSecrets is the best channel to learn pieces from what I've found. An upright piano is absolutely enough for any level, the main differences that a grand will give is refined key action, and larger sound, which can both be achieved on extremely expensive uprights. I'm 17 now, and was 16 when I got the piano. I don't regret not learning piano before because I never even thought about it, so I don't think I would have appreciated it as much if at all. Thanks for watching!
@@_benk Thanks a lot. If you let me some aditional more questions I forget to ask: Did you practice everyday? Do you recommend doing it every day or taking a 1 or 2 day brak per week? Thanks a lot for answering, great progress again
I didn't say it was important. This was the piece I was determined to learn, though I only got maybe 20 bars into it so it was obviously much harder than my level.
Interesting video. I only spend around 20mins each evening and more at weekends so my progress is much, much slower and I have so much still to learn two years in. 😮
Your video is believable. The pieces that you have chosen are of tempi not so problematic for beginners if they put in time to practice and without a bad teacher to scare the shits out of students. Your repetoire itself suggests that you have "a thing" for clasical music of romantic period, you like the music, which explains the fearless approach to Chopin Ballade in G Op.23, which if you get to the coda at the end, will explain why a lot of comments deem you "fake". You just pick out the music you like on TH-cam regardless of technical level, dab in a little bit, so it is normal for someone who is lucky enough to have fine hands and good ears, with the readiness of TH-cam tutorial to demonstrate hand movement to mimick. Yep, there are people, especially craft-makers, surgeons, whose hands are enough adaptive to execute tasks on piano keyboard at the same level of "serious" piano students without years of rigorous training with the scale, the appeggios, the boring Do Re Mi. But learners like you are not common place, therefore negative comments tend to stem from more disbelief rather than jealousy. Keep up the work. Check Tonebase on TH-cam. Do the hellion amount of sight-reading and I think you will be even more surprised at yourself.
Thank you for this comment, you've put into words pretty much exactly what I've been doing. Certainly that year I was just dipping in and out of pieces I liked which was what I was into at the time, but at the back of my mind I thought I should be learning full pieces. So this year I started learning Nocturne 48 no 2 all the way through
Omg I see your comments everywhere (ok this is ofc exaggerated) But yea you're not actually at that level only because you can "play" like 3 grade 8 pieces and this not even complete + not very good 😅
@@_benk It makes sense then! I started playing the piano at...58🤫 and now that I do have time to practise I usually devote two hours to it a day. I am now 64 and I can play some of y the chopin’s nocturnes, not the very difficult onevof course...still...very pleasant .BUT since I am....old🙀 I can’t work longer than two hours..too exhausting.
Hey bro, I’m very similiar to you as i also use TH-cam to learn new pieces, my main difficulty is picking pieces that are too difficult and so i never get more than a single bar through before giving it up😂 i have come to ask how hard it is to learn to read sheet music because i have tried and i find it very difficult to stay consistent, often just giving up and looking to TH-cam for answers. I also come to say you should definitely learn un sospiro, maybe not all of it but just the start it is my favourite melody and i have learned it and it isnt too hard if you focus on it
Thanks for the comment, I've learnt the first few bars of un sospiro. I think to learn sheet music it helps to start with a piece that you know how it sounds. Learn treble clef, then bass clef. There's definitely lots of tutorials online but definitely start with a piece you know
Learning sheet music isn't hard at all, especially if you use a beginner book instead of learning pieces you like. Beginner books are really effective to introduce patterns gradually. But when it comes to sheet reading, it's especially good. They start with songs that don't require moving hands. So 5 different notes per hand. The music sheets become super easy to read. You identity the 3rd finger line. Then, the 1st and 5th finger line. The book will then introduce a few different hand position. You end up learning the position of notes without any effort. Also, as the fingers don't move at first, there is no need to look at fingers at all, you can keep looking at the sheet. I started 5 weeks ago. The first two weeks with far too complex songs. Then with a beginner book. It's super satisfying to speedrun what is supposed to be a 1 year book in 2 months. I'm making far more progress by playing 30 songs in 3 weeks than struggling on 3 songs I like during my first two weeks. Buy a beginner book for 30 euros/dollars. Or find a PDF of Thomson method (I don't remember the name exactly, it's in the public domain) or Methode Rose (French 1960s book). Or rent a beginner book in a public library (What I'm currently doing)
I'll be honest.... You learn too hard pieces, and it's not good for you. If you don't know a lot of technique, you gonna be destroying yourself, and there is also a risk of injury. I'm a big Chopin fan as well, but i have a teacher, and I'm learning step by step and moving forward, from easy to hard pieces. With a good teacher, you will improve much faster and you will also read music better. Have a nice day Beno! ☺
Like I've said in another comment, getting a 2 against 3 polyrhythm is not too difficult. I've been playing in an orchestra and jazz band for years so this experience definitely helps
But how are you only grade 5 in trumpet, whilst you play only grade 8 pieces in your first months of piano? Did you only play trumpet for a few weeks then? That puzzles me
I've been playing trumpet for years, slowly working up each grade. Since I started trumpet when I was younger I didn't progress as quickly as with piano. The piano pieces are "grade 8 level" but that's not to say that I'm grade 8 level at playing.
If you don't mind me asking, could you please please please tell me the song that you were playing at 4:42, I have been on the internet for like 20 minutes trying to find it and I just can't so please please tell me the piece
Impressive improvement. I respect the dedication. It does however seem like you are picking pieces that are far out of your reach (a common mistake for us self-taught pianists). Some of these pieces take years of training to play correctly. I recommended learning simpler pieces, perhaps finding a teacher if you have the money, and investing time in learning the basics. You will thank me on the long run! :)
Hey nice video im new to piano and i have a few questions did u learn by teacher? or everything from youtube? and how did you remember the whole song in like 1 week? thats crazy!! can you give me please the videos you used to watch ? also for 1 week you have amazing technique with your hands.... and by the time have you learned sheet music? if not how do u learn the things you play?
I need help. it is my first week and I can play with both of my hands pretty much fine of the beginning but I have a problem, I can’t press two keys or more with one hand( I think it is called chords?) do you have any advice for me thank you
I don’t mean to hate but clearly your first time wasn’t actually « your first time » that’s humanly impossible 😂 but either way it will motivate people to work hard i guess
It was, but I've said in the comment at the top, these clips just show my progress, if I play a section of a piece chances are that's all I know from the piece likely because I left it to move onto another piece.
I think it's a litle bit exagerated because that nocturne in C is literally so hard because his last arpegios it's possible to do but You need to be pretty confident un the rythm I got more than a year and I can't play that nocturne
@@gialanzeuwu1286 yeah I get a lot of people saying my progress is fake but I think my video isn't clear enough that the parts shown in the video are the only bits I learnt, not a whole piece every week lol
@@_benk ah yes, thank you! Thx a lot! 🤩I "lost" some guy on YT ... I had this piece saved/bookmarked in an YT account (8 years ago) I (probably permanently) lost access to and I only knew a part of the user's nick name but I knew he was playing this piece whose name I also forgot 🙈 Found him now again 💪 Thank you very much 🤗
This is so unreal. I am on my 10th hour and I can't even get both hands to work together using first few hannon excercises. What did you do in your first 10 hours ? Very curious to know.
First 10 hours? I have no idea, but that's extremely short time to expect to see much progress. Just take it as slow as you can, try learning each hand individually then pairing together VERY slowly..
@@_benk I am referring to your first week on this video as you are very smooth and have both hands quite co-ordinated. In any case, you could be genius at music as everyone is different. :-) Well done.
@@diaryofnricom163 thank you! I guess there's a whole load of factors that could go into it, basically anything requiring two hands probably helps, like using a mouse and keyboard
u got the it-just need a classical teacher to structure your practices. I am at three months and no where near your skill level-so you should take your piano talent seriously.
Yea this is fake sorry but no one learns a polyrhythm first week. Honestly man cool skill but idk why you would lie for views might discourage some beginners
It's not fake, and a 2 against 3 polyrhythm isn't too difficult to pick up especially if you're practicing hours a day on just that. I'm open for debate but don't go saying it's fake just because of that
@@_benk I mean it’s not just that, but the fact that you learned nocturne in eb major before waltz in a minor and played the nocturne better is pretty sus lol. Hope it’s real I just really doubt it is
@@prizm8530 I've not learnt nocturne in eb major? I'm sure I said in the video too that I didn't learn many pieces all the way through because I kept switching between them.
@@prizm8530 I've been told my progress has been fast, I think starting at this age instead of when I was too young to understand the piano has helped speed up the learning process
To clear something up due to some negative comments, in this video I learn small parts of pieces I liked, to this day I have only learnt 3 or 4 pieces fully to the end. The parts you see me play are likely all I know
I don’t know Why you need to show something that is not true at all…
Doing this you make people feel unconfortable with their results…
For all the people: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE you play like the first clips within a month of practice since complete beginner…
You are clearly a 1 to 2 year piano player since the first clip of the video..
The posture of you hand, the relax of your fingers, this is something you gain after 1/1.5year at least…
I have played 1.5 year and i am able to play very bad not all of the pieces you played and i constantly have played a 1 hour average every day since the first time…
Please let’s be honest and let people gain their real results!
Stop clickbaiting bro ❤️🎶
@@omsiravvel7805 bro I’ve been playing for 5 months and people would say i’ve been playing for years but it all comes down to the work and discipline you put in I have a répertoire of 17+ pieces I used to practice 6-7h a day but now 4-5h because of school It all comes down to the work you put in not everybody has the same progress
@@omsiravvel7805 aka “I’m bad at piano!! How dare you be better than me at a faster pace!! Fake!!!!1112!!22!!!”
@@omsiravvel7805 The hand position is not even good at the first clip, it does not from an arch and is below flat wdym
Im not sure why its supposed to be fake. Like he said its only small parts of pieces that he doesnt even play well. TH-cam being projective af again
Crazy how people are saying it’s fake when he’s admitting to practicing up to 7 hours a day. Insane dedication keep it up
Jealousy is a disease
@@porto1stI’m pretty sure it’s fake and he just said he practice for 7 hours
But I really want to be wrong
This is bullshit and even whit 7 hours a day your quality or work get lower especially if ye don’t has a teacher,playing pieces that need years of piano in the second week is ridiculous
Good video - I think the negativity comes because they don’t see the amount of takes that had happened pre upload. TH-cam is a powerful tool for learning things - I’ve definitely used that a lot since I started a year ago. Keep it up you’re doing well.
Hard to believe... Very hard!
I don't see a reason why it should be fake. Probably it helps a loooooot that he could play grade 5 on trumpets when he started with the piano.
Shubert on first week. Don’t be a fool! Please…
It’s bullshit
I have been playing piano with a teacher for 3 months and only just starting to play with two hands. You were doing this within a week? If this is true, you are very gifted.
lil tip- clair de lune sounds WAY better without too much pedal
Very inspirational. I think it shows the difference between the classic - start with Ode to Joy method of learning piano "the right way" and the video game version of just teaching your fingers how to do certain things through muscle memory. No way you can sight read and play a whole piece, but it's super cool. I'm 53. My first keyboard (with weighted keys) will arrive next week. I look forward to doing both. I'll take lessons, but I also want to just learn bits of songs that sound impressive. Thanks for the inspiration. I have no doubt you did this as you said. It just takes lots of work.
That's how I started yes, but I quickly moved to sheet music to learn, it's what I'm still using now, I'm currently learning Nocturne 48 no 2
@@_benk 48 no 2! :O did you finish Op. 48 No. 1? My absolute favorite. Op. 27 No. 2 is a great piece, too. I love chopin :3333
@@LeRainbow I started on no.2, I might learn no.1 after this
@@_benk it was a compliment
After six months of teaching myself from scratch I was playing Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no 3 to a fully packed out audience at Carnegie hall so yeah not bad progress for yourself!
nbgaf
Nice, how can I do that?
😂😂😂😂 made me laugh out loud
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Man, this is amazing progress you made in just a year! Congrats!
It's so amazing, you perceive music like a master, I'm learning piano too, but I need to learn how to express music from scratch.
Thank you, I'm sure I'm no where near that level of perception, I think my biggest tip for that is to listen to lots and lots of piano music all the time, it starts to become more natural
Learning to read music is critical early on. Sheet music is way more than just what notes to press, it has literally everything you need to know about the song. You will likely mess up finger placement, and get used to other "bad" habits that learning sheet music would have otherwise fixed early on. Great progress regardless though!
If you are a beginner and commenting this is fake, I think that when you look back on his performance after some years, you will find that his playing was as a beginner having fun with small excerpts of popular works.
This is exactly right, thanks. Lots of people are misunderstanding what I've clearly said - I'm learning parts of these pieces then moving on, not learning full 7 minute pieces!
Dude do you know how hard the into to lieberstraum is for beginners I just don’t think it’s realistic
100% fake..started as a beginner myself, practiced 2-3 hours a day in the beginning with piano lessons once a week and your finger skills etc. looked very confident at the beginning. Either very hard to believe or you are truly gifted/played before..
I guess I'm "truly gifted" then. Unfortunately this is the internet and there's no way I can prove to you this is real except for my own word, wether or not you believe that is your problem
Shut up mate
This guy’s got the skill trust me
Haha yea definitely fake. First week Schubert with triplets polyrhythm in. Yea right lol
No way you're absolute beginner haha
I don’t know Why you need to show something that is not true at all…
Doing this you make people feel unconfortable with their results…
For all the people: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE you play like the first clips within a month of practice since complete beginner…
You are clearly a 1 to 2 year piano player since the first clip of the video..
The posture of you hand, the relax of your fingers, this is something you gain after 1/1.5year at least…
I have played 1.5 year and i am able to play very bad not all of the pieces you played and i constantly have played a 1 hour average every day since the first time…
Please let’s be honest and let people gain their real results!
Stop clickbaiting bro ❤️🎶
That’s some real dedication and talent you have for piano! I can’t even play with two hands properly lol.
Hey nice job really, you’re very talented and I can see all the effort put in this first year. I also had a question tho… Have you finished any piece completely? it would be great to put some of them on your yt, cuz I would 100% watch them .
I've finished a few pieces yep, I did a recording test but I guess something about being in front of a camera makes me mess up. I'll be posting some full pieces here eventually!
Ignore the hate comments. It’s like telling an artist their art is just printed. It goes to show how great you are!
great video but I also started teaching myself the piano when I was 14. I played very difficult pieces so the advice I have is to be careful with technique because playing some difficult pieces early can hinder or damage your technique I will give you a list of some options Liszt Romance, Tchaikovsky sweet dreams op 39 no 21, Eduard Schutt a la Nuit op 60 no1 other than that keep up the good work
I started with some Beethoven schumann Schubert chopin then liszt alkan and medtner and after ravel Gaspard de nuit and sorabji. After second day
We are he same people🤣 jumping straight to hard pieces despite barely being able to read. Oh well I enjoy the challenge
Next month I’m buying a keyboard to learn piano, I have a 1 year goal so I can play like you and many others! Should I start to learn with TH-cam or piano lessons?🔥💪🏽
Awesome video, got me more hype to learn the piano👏🏽
I recommend starting with TH-cam, the channel PianoSecrets is amazing for learning classical. Definitely don't rely on TH-cam though, learn to read sheet music within the first few months. Piano lessons are good at teaching you the notes but 99% of the playing comes from your own practice. Good luck!
Thanks a lot!😊
Don’t feel bad if you don’t get to this level in a year. This is like 99% faked, coming from a pianist. Polyrhythms themselves usually take 10 months to learn on average, and he was there on the first week. Don’t feel bad if it take 3 weeks to learn both hands. Piano is very hard. I have mixed feelings on these videos, because they could inspire, but when you come back more experienced you realize they were just lying for views or something. There is literally no way to be that good the first week. Not trying to say he’s a liar or bad or anything, (maybe a liar actually) but don’t be discouraged if you aren’t this good in a year (btw by 10 months I don’t mean it takes 10 months of just that, I mean it’ll be like 10 months before you are ready to want to learn that, and that is if you are a fast learner)
@@prizm8530 sorry how does a polyrhythm take 10 months to learn? Are you practicing one minute a week?? I am not a liar, if there's any way I can prove to you my progress speak up. Like I've said, I bought the piano in August 2021 with no prior experience.
Okay I give up learning piano after this because after 1 year I learned half or less than half of this skills.
I'm fucking stupid for piano.
Join the club …… You’re stupid - I’m a moron. 😂
Great job, you got the feel for the keys and chords just practice every day at least an hour…❤
Good job buddy.
Keep playing ❤
How much do you play per day? Did you play before the same quantity of hours? Did you have some kind of pain (like finger or hand) during your practices/plays? Do you do some kind of exercise for warm up or practice technique or just play pieces? Are you still learning piano theory? Something you wish you could have done learn / practice more the first day of learning? Any objectives of why you are learning piano? (like for fun or or being able to play somehting or improve at it or something). Best piano channels for learning? Do you think that to practice in an advanced way after playing a lot is necessary a grand piano or an upright piano is enough? (I know keyboards work too but not so good and those 2). How old are you? Do you regret not learning piano before or you were planning to do it after? Great progress, keep it up
I'll answer your questions I order:
When I bought the piano I was spending hours per day, average maybe 3 hours a day, some days I'd do 6 or 7. However as time went on I was spending less and less time per day. Sometimes I would get some wrist aching yes. I don't have any warmups or exercise. I'm not learning piano theory as all my music theory comes from playing trumpet (only difference is having to read bass clef). I think in the first times learning I wish I picked an easy piece and stuck with it and built up from there. It's good to learn a full piece instead of lots of bits of different pieces.
Continued:
I'm learning for fun, and because I love classical piano music so playing it is even better than listening to it. PianoSecrets is the best channel to learn pieces from what I've found. An upright piano is absolutely enough for any level, the main differences that a grand will give is refined key action, and larger sound, which can both be achieved on extremely expensive uprights. I'm 17 now, and was 16 when I got the piano. I don't regret not learning piano before because I never even thought about it, so I don't think I would have appreciated it as much if at all. Thanks for watching!
@@_benk Thanks a lot. If you let me some aditional more questions I forget to ask: Did you practice everyday? Do you recommend doing it every day or taking a 1 or 2 day brak per week? Thanks a lot for answering, great progress again
@@Cholata123 when I first got it I basically practiced every day for like a few months, now I practice only a few days a week
@@_benk Thanks a lot!
Yeah when I started learning I found that working on polyrhythms in week one was really important too. 🙄
I didn't say it was important. This was the piece I was determined to learn, though I only got maybe 20 bars into it so it was obviously much harder than my level.
Absolute beginner?? 1 Week and play without notes...
Interesting video. I only spend around 20mins each evening and more at weekends so my progress is much, much slower and I have so much still to learn two years in. 😮
keep going! I've slowed down a lot
Your video is believable. The pieces that you have chosen are of tempi not so problematic for beginners if they put in time to practice and without a bad teacher to scare the shits out of students. Your repetoire itself suggests that you have "a thing" for clasical music of romantic period, you like the music, which explains the fearless approach to Chopin Ballade in G Op.23, which if you get to the coda at the end, will explain why a lot of comments deem you "fake". You just pick out the music you like on TH-cam regardless of technical level, dab in a little bit, so it is normal for someone who is lucky enough to have fine hands and good ears, with the readiness of TH-cam tutorial to demonstrate hand movement to mimick. Yep, there are people, especially craft-makers, surgeons, whose hands are enough adaptive to execute tasks on piano keyboard at the same level of "serious" piano students without years of rigorous training with the scale, the appeggios, the boring Do Re Mi. But learners like you are not common place, therefore negative comments tend to stem from more disbelief rather than jealousy. Keep up the work. Check Tonebase on TH-cam. Do the hellion amount of sight-reading and I think you will be even more surprised at yourself.
Thank you for this comment, you've put into words pretty much exactly what I've been doing. Certainly that year I was just dipping in and out of pieces I liked which was what I was into at the time, but at the back of my mind I thought I should be learning full pieces. So this year I started learning Nocturne 48 no 2 all the way through
Sick progress, keep it up!
thanks, I haven't been playing as much as I'd like to recently
@@_benk I feel you
Some of these are grade 7 and 8... takes a good few years for that level...
Omg I see your comments everywhere (ok this is ofc exaggerated)
But yea you're not actually at that level only because you can "play" like 3 grade 8 pieces and this not even complete + not very good 😅
Indeed ! Hard to believe. You must be very gifted indeed! Half an hour each day🤨
Back then it was much more than half an hour a day, up to 6 or 7 hours once or twice
@@_benk
It makes sense then! I started playing the piano at...58🤫 and now that I
do have time to practise I usually devote two hours to it a day. I am now 64 and I can play some of y the chopin’s nocturnes, not the very difficult onevof course...still...very pleasant .BUT since I am....old🙀 I can’t work longer than two hours..too exhausting.
@@brigittebeche4117 that way I am quite lucky to learn while I'm young, my brain is a lot more workable. It's great that you've learnt the piano too!
good job mate i just started playing myself in an actual academie so yea keep it up btw am also a trumpetist :)
Hey bro, I’m very similiar to you as i also use TH-cam to learn new pieces, my main difficulty is picking pieces that are too difficult and so i never get more than a single bar through before giving it up😂 i have come to ask how hard it is to learn to read sheet music because i have tried and i find it very difficult to stay consistent, often just giving up and looking to TH-cam for answers. I also come to say you should definitely learn un sospiro, maybe not all of it but just the start it is my favourite melody and i have learned it and it isnt too hard if you focus on it
Thanks for the comment, I've learnt the first few bars of un sospiro. I think to learn sheet music it helps to start with a piece that you know how it sounds. Learn treble clef, then bass clef. There's definitely lots of tutorials online but definitely start with a piece you know
Learning sheet music isn't hard at all, especially if you use a beginner book instead of learning pieces you like.
Beginner books are really effective to introduce patterns gradually. But when it comes to sheet reading, it's especially good.
They start with songs that don't require moving hands. So 5 different notes per hand. The music sheets become super easy to read. You identity the 3rd finger line. Then, the 1st and 5th finger line.
The book will then introduce a few different hand position.
You end up learning the position of notes without any effort. Also, as the fingers don't move at first, there is no need to look at fingers at all, you can keep looking at the sheet.
I started 5 weeks ago. The first two weeks with far too complex songs. Then with a beginner book. It's super satisfying to speedrun what is supposed to be a 1 year book in 2 months. I'm making far more progress by playing 30 songs in 3 weeks than struggling on 3 songs I like during my first two weeks.
Buy a beginner book for 30 euros/dollars. Or find a PDF of Thomson method (I don't remember the name exactly, it's in the public domain) or Methode Rose (French 1960s book). Or rent a beginner book in a public library (What I'm currently doing)
I'll be honest.... You learn too hard pieces, and it's not good for you. If you don't know a lot of technique, you gonna be destroying yourself, and there is also a risk of injury.
I'm a big Chopin fan as well, but i have a teacher, and I'm learning step by step and moving forward, from easy to hard pieces. With a good teacher, you will improve much faster and you will also read music better.
Have a nice day Beno! ☺
Seems hard to believe. Polyrhytms and such after 1 month.
Like I've said in another comment, getting a 2 against 3 polyrhythm is not too difficult. I've been playing in an orchestra and jazz band for years so this experience definitely helps
@@_benk very nice then.
@@_benkyou should have included that you had previous experience with other instruments, maybe people would be less skeptical then😅
But how are you only grade 5 in trumpet, whilst you play only grade 8 pieces in your first months of piano? Did you only play trumpet for a few weeks then? That puzzles me
I've been playing trumpet for years, slowly working up each grade. Since I started trumpet when I was younger I didn't progress as quickly as with piano. The piano pieces are "grade 8 level" but that's not to say that I'm grade 8 level at playing.
If you don't mind me asking, could you please please please tell me the song that you were playing at 4:42, I have been on the internet for like 20 minutes trying to find it and I just can't so please please tell me the piece
That's Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor! Op. Posth 20
Impressive improvement. I respect the dedication. It does however seem like you are picking pieces that are far out of your reach (a common mistake for us self-taught pianists). Some of these pieces take years of training to play correctly. I recommended learning simpler pieces, perhaps finding a teacher if you have the money, and investing time in learning the basics. You will thank me on the long run! :)
Hey nice video
im new to piano and i have a few questions
did u learn by teacher? or everything from youtube?
and how did you remember the whole song in like 1 week? thats crazy!!
can you give me please the videos you used to watch ?
also for 1 week you have amazing technique with your hands....
and by the time have you learned sheet music? if not how do u learn the things you play?
I learned from TH-cam for the most part until I think almost half a year in when I got a teacher but that's only half an hour per week
Hi you are playing amazing! Just wanted to ask: what is the name of the first piece you played?
It was the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto in C minor - sight-read - not so hard to start with if you have the will-power, apparently
Amazing
How can you start with Schubert but no method book or sheet music? Incredible. Congratulations mr 💐
Some good TH-cam tutorials out there!
@@_benk Thank you
Yeah mate!
I see the cat at the end made more progress than you in a year. XD
jk. Amazing work. keep practicing.
Quick question
Did you already know how to read music before learning the piano?
Or did you pick up music reading and the piano at the same time?
I knew how to read treble clef from playing the trumpet, so all I had to do was learn to read bass clef
good job bro!
I need help. it is my first week and I can play with both of my hands pretty much fine of the beginning but I have a problem, I can’t press two keys or more with one hand( I think it is called chords?) do you have any advice for me thank you
There are finger exercises that will develop your strength, dexterity, and mind body connection. Hannon exercises are great.
Song at 5:11-5:28 ?? So beautiful
Wow!!
I don’t mean to hate but clearly your first time wasn’t actually « your first time » that’s humanly impossible 😂 but either way it will motivate people to work hard i guess
It was, but I've said in the comment at the top, these clips just show my progress, if I play a section of a piece chances are that's all I know from the piece likely because I left it to move onto another piece.
Very Good Bro! I also started playing the piano 4 days ago.
Nice progress. However, I think it'd be better to play a easier piece but in a correct tempo and notes.
This is so fake I’m playing myself Pathetique after 1 years and I will never be able to play op 25 no 1 after just a month.
4:30 woah
I think it's a litle bit exagerated because that nocturne in C is literally so hard because his last arpegios it's possible to do but You need to be pretty confident un the rythm I got more than a year and I can't play that nocturne
Read my pinned comment
Thats sounds More real
@@gialanzeuwu1286 yeah I get a lot of people saying my progress is fake but I think my video isn't clear enough that the parts shown in the video are the only bits I learnt, not a whole piece every week lol
why are people on youtube more talented than me i feel like a complete total noob infront of u and also are u a fast learner?
This video probably embellishes my playing, or is a bad example as most of the pieces I did not finish.
I forgot how the piece at 2:05 is called. Pleeeeeease help me 🥺
Schubert Serenade :)
@@_benk ah yes, thank you! Thx a lot! 🤩I "lost" some guy on YT ... I had this piece saved/bookmarked in an YT account (8 years ago) I (probably permanently) lost access to and I only knew a part of the user's nick name but I knew he was playing this piece whose name I also forgot 🙈 Found him now again 💪 Thank you very much 🤗
You're from SA?
what piece is 5:16?
This is so unreal. I am on my 10th hour and I can't even get both hands to work together using first few hannon excercises. What did you do in your first 10 hours ? Very curious to know.
First 10 hours? I have no idea, but that's extremely short time to expect to see much progress. Just take it as slow as you can, try learning each hand individually then pairing together VERY slowly..
@@_benk I am referring to your first week on this video as you are very smooth and have both hands quite co-ordinated. In any case, you could be genius at music as everyone is different. :-) Well done.
@@diaryofnricom163 thank you! I guess there's a whole load of factors that could go into it, basically anything requiring two hands probably helps, like using a mouse and keyboard
Awesome! What is the piece at 4:30? Thanks!
Nocturne in C sharp minor no.20
u got the it-just need a classical teacher to structure your practices. I am at three months and no where near your skill level-so you should take your piano talent seriously.
Yea this is fake sorry but no one learns a polyrhythm first week. Honestly man cool skill but idk why you would lie for views might discourage some beginners
It's not fake, and a 2 against 3 polyrhythm isn't too difficult to pick up especially if you're practicing hours a day on just that. I'm open for debate but don't go saying it's fake just because of that
@@_benk I mean it’s not just that, but the fact that you learned nocturne in eb major before waltz in a minor and played the nocturne better is pretty sus lol. Hope it’s real I just really doubt it is
@@prizm8530 I've not learnt nocturne in eb major? I'm sure I said in the video too that I didn't learn many pieces all the way through because I kept switching between them.
@@_benk I mean what you did play of it was really good. Idk maybe it wasn’t fake but most beginners take like a month just to use two hands lol.
@@prizm8530 I've been told my progress has been fast, I think starting at this age instead of when I was too young to understand the piano has helped speed up the learning process
1:01 what song is this
Clair de Lune
Another “make me feel like a moron” video. Ugh
100 % fake
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100000000000 % fake
Not fake lol
Completely fake
Lol it's not fake
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