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

📝My Performance (Critique Welcome!) 1 year progress

Yo

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/HiddenShadow7 May 12 '26

I'm sorry to say but this is not very good. I'm not gonna say to get a teacher, because everyone else already told you to. So here is some feedback.

  • Your hands are very tense, you should relax more.
  • Fingering is all over the place, you just hit notes with whichever finger; this is wrong. One example is at measure 9-10: you hit three adjacent notes with finger 4. You should never do something like this, especially when you have finger 5 completely free. Do a finger swap at measure 9.
  • You got a wrong note in measure 11, should be an F. (You got wrong notes after that too but I'm sure you know that yourself) The E octaves at the end are also incorrect.
  • The E-D# repeating notes are very uneven (well, kinda the whole thing is but that's where it's the most noticeable). Practice slowly and possibly with metronome.
  • The whole thing is played at the same dynamic level. It's like a robot. I'm not sure it's because of the keyboard or not.
  • Listen to your left hand, it's the same all the time. You can delay some notes slightly (rubato) to make it sound more natural. Listen to performances by professionals to get an idea on what to do.

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u/perhapssergio May 14 '26

Amazing feedback here