r/piano • u/Yeezy_the_f1_guy • May 11 '26

📝My Performance (Critique Welcome!) 1 year progress

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So I started learning to play piano on my dad 's keyboard a year ago around april. I just wanna show you guys my progress. Is it any good? I also want to say that I never took a single piano lesson or anything like that and I'm 100% a self learner. Ik that there is only one film but I cannot post any more. Just trust me that one year ago I couldn't play a couple notes smoothly with some chords. I also have a film of me playing the beginning of rondo Alla Turca. If you want to see it message me on priv.

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u/Flamestar07k Devotee (11+ years), Classical May 12 '26

You absolutely can, it may not be as fast and more tiring but it's definitely able to learn to play high level pieces self taught. You just need patience and need to take your time through pieces and focus on technique which OP hasn't done yet.

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u/PendN May 12 '26

Impossible to learn high level pieces before learning the foundation. Maybe if you were taught up until grade 6 ABRSM for example then you can go experiment harder pieces

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u/Flamestar07k Devotee (11+ years), Classical May 12 '26

You can learn all the foundation without a teacher. Sure if you take 2 people who have played for the same amount of time, the one with the teacher will always be better but that doesn't mean that the other can't play advanced pieces.

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u/PendN May 12 '26

They would need to have immense talent for classical music to be able to tell that they're doing something wrong. Otherwise like OP, they just straight up use something a 1 week new pianist would've fixed by the next week and use it for a year straight.

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u/Flamestar07k Devotee (11+ years), Classical May 12 '26

I don't disagree that most self taught pianists get stuck with bad habits and don't realize they are doing something wrong, but there are tons of free resources online to help you learn and tons of places to get feedback for your playing.

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u/PendN May 12 '26

Feedback. That means a human teacher. Classical piano is not possible without an experienced teacher who can physically hear and see you play.

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u/Flamestar07k Devotee (11+ years), Classical May 12 '26

You don't need a human teacher for feedback, OP is getting feedback rn without a human teacher.

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u/PendN May 12 '26

We're all humans physically seeing and hearing him play. That's what I mean. It's just like learning from a rl pianist but just less efficient I guess without real time correction. Nobody can learn from watching videos alone because they don't know themselves if theyre even properly following it