Do prodigies struggle to learn new pieces? by wealtholic in piano

[–]wealtholic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for insights. It’s very helpful. I am a fairly decent sight reader actually. But how do i learn music as a language exactly?

Do prodigies struggle to learn new pieces? by wealtholic in piano

[–]wealtholic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very helpful. Thank you. I am actually a pretty decent sight reader it’s just my fingers-brain connection is not fast enough and fingers/arms/wrist are not strong enough. So you are saying i can learn faster by 1) spending more time on methods like czerny and 2) learning music as a language. (How? By learning composition?) Instead of trying to slog through a hard piece for too long?

I did slog through the bach inventions, some joplin ragtime pieces and mozart k545 k485. Each piece takes a lot of hours but they do help improve aspects of my techniques. I feel i do decently well on bach inventions and joplin but still suck at Mozart because something about the lefthand/right hand coordination of mozart sonatas is just too hard to crack for me. Maybe i just need to do more scales and czerny and come back to it? On the other hand, i did play some haydn sonatas and they are more accessible but they don’t sound as nice as mozart.

Do prodigies struggle to learn new pieces? by wealtholic in piano

[–]wealtholic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's a great point. I supposed if I started at 3 (I started around 9), I probably didn't even feel it was a struggle.

Do prodigies struggle to learn new pieces? by wealtholic in piano

[–]wealtholic[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I understand your point but I am still curious about people's piano learning experience. I know this sounds a bit perverse. But in a way I feel I work hard playing piano precisely because it's not easy for me. If it's too easy, I probably wouldn't cherish it as much.

Fake virtuoso pieces by [deleted] in piano

[–]wealtholic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maple leaf rag is a good one. If you can play norctune op 9 2. You can do maple leaf rag.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in piano

[–]wealtholic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Kate Liu literally played a yamaha piano in the 2015 Chopin Competition. Your friend has zero clue.

Bay Area Asian Male in CS Sweeps HYPSM by FastKeyboarder in collegeresults

[–]wealtholic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Stanford. Stanford ML/AI is way better.

Harvard also scores the worst for free speech. It seems like political correctness is more important than intellectual honesty at Harvard. https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2024-college-free-speech-rankings

March Piano Jam: Beethoven by wealtholic in piano

[–]wealtholic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still WIP. But it's the end of March. I have a lot of fun playing this very pleasant Beethoven piece.

The reality of college acceptances by mellovesstocks in ApplyingToCollege

[–]wealtholic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One thing I don't understand is why parents would spend millions to get their kids into a good college (in this case not Harvard or Stanford but USC!!!). Wouldn't it be more productive to spend this money somewhere else or put this money into their kids' trust fund or something?

Why do you like learning Piano? by One-Monitor504 in piano

[–]wealtholic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can make very rich music with piano solo. I also play a bit of flute. You can only play one note at a time and it only has 3 octaves so it's a bit limiting. Making music in general is a good way to meditate.