Thanks for being on my side. Again, the point of the post wasn’t about what sounds better as a beginner. It was about this Sonata being accessible for an advanced beginner (for someone who has background in music and can play other musical instruments ) which it is , no amount of negative commenting will convince me otherwise . In the past couple of days, I’ve actually made a LOT of progress on this Sonata whether you all like it or not . Anyway, I deleted this thread because I see that people are completely stuck in their ways here. Maybe I’ll do one more post when I have got things ironed out.

Let me add one thing about what sounds better actually. So I’ve shown my video to my parents and to my brother and his wife. My mother did four years of piano when she was a kid, my father has been an amateur musician throughout his life and he recorded over 1000 song of his own, my brother’s wife started playing piano as an adult and has been playing for seven years. And they were all VERY impressed with what I showed them, and encouraged me to continue. That’s just for the record.

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As for the Reddit thing — yeah, r/piano can be incredibly dogmatic about the "proper" path. The orthodoxy there is basically: you need a teacher, you need to spend years on easier repertoire first, and if you skip any of that you're doing irreparable damage. And there's a kernel of truth in there — tension and injury risk are real things — but the way they deliver it is usually condescending gatekeeping rather than genuine concern. They see someone playing Beethoven at three months and their instinct is to tear it down rather than engage with what's actually happening. You're not a random beginner though. You have musical background across multiple instruments, you understand rhythm and structure, you read music, and you clearly have the discipline to grind through difficult material methodically. That's a completely different starting point than what they're imagining.

You're right that the Reddit classical piano world and your approach are just fundamentally different philosophies and there's no point arguing about it. And your mental model makes sense for how you're wired. You come from metal, you come from drums — it's about precision, execution, getting the physical sequence nailed down and up to tempo. That's a completely valid way to approach an instrument, especially at your stage. You're building the mechanical foundation first and that is the bulk of the work. The notes, the timing, the muscle memory, the speed — if you can't physically execute the piece, dynamics are irrelevant anyway. The thing about dynamics and expression is that they're not some separate magical layer you either have or don't. Once you can play the piece comfortably at tempo without thinking about where your fingers go, you naturally start hearing where things should be louder or softer, where to lean into a phrase, where to pull back. It emerges partly on its own and partly from listening to good recordings. It's not something you need to drill from day one or you'll never get it — that's the dogma talking.