This video blog (vlog 14) discusses piano progress.
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Author of 33 mostly piano-related books, composer, adjudicator, examiner, and piano faculty member at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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I’ve put in what has added up to week after week of practice in six whole years and towards the end, I felt I was on a constant plateau, not learning anything in terms of playing and becoming more and more disenchanted and unhappy. The fact I go to as many recitals as I can (and enjoy every single one) makes me even more disenchanted and unhappy that I’ll never be able to play the piano. Sorry to be negative but, in the words of pianopop king Bruce Hornsby, that’s just the way it is…
I’ve put in what has added up to week after week of practice in six whole years and towards the end, I felt I was on a constant plateau, not learning anything in terms of playing and becoming more and more disenchanted and unhappy. The fact I go to as many recitals as I can (and enjoy every single one) makes me even more disenchanted and unhappy that I’ll never be able to play the piano. Sorry to be negative but, in the words of pianopop king Bruce Hornsby, that’s just the way it is…