|
Welcome to the Piano World Piano Forums Over 3 million posts about pianos, digital pianos, and all types of keyboard instruments. Over 100,000 members from around the world.
Join the World's Largest Community of Piano Lovers
(it's free)
It's Fun to Play the Piano ... Please Pass It On!
|
|
75 members (bluebilly, accordeur, BillS728, aphexdisklavier, bobrunyan, anotherscott, AaronSF, apianostudent, 16 invisible),
2,119
guests, and
357
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 607
500 Post Club Member
|
500 Post Club Member
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 607 |
Originally posted by Monica Kern: M-F: I play between 15 minutes and an hour. Weekends I try to make up for lost time and play 2-3 hours, spread out in shorter intervals throughout the day.
I'd play 4-6 hours if I could, and I fantasize daily about quitting my job to do so. Ahhhh so do I ....so do I.... Luckily those sick days come in handy Peter
Ok..Ok... If you don't want your Steinway give it to me !!!!
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 64
Full Member
|
Full Member
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 64 |
Nowadays I practice around 1-1 1/2 hour a day. I usually break it up into 20-30 minute increments. I'm prone to carpal tunnel so I try to avoid abusing my hands. They do tire pretty quick, but maybe in time they'll build up more stamina
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 23
Full Member
|
OP
Full Member
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 23 |
Thanks for sharing your practice times. I was getting worried that maybe I wasn't practicing enough. I also practice in intervals throughout the day. I totally agree with Monica Kern. I always dream about leaving work to practice piano. I always try to leave early. I have a terrific piano instructer and I am stating on scales hands together on C major. She also gave me sight reading exercises and a new song to learn every week. They are about four grand staffs in lenght with some repeat bars.
Piano Rocks!! Mozart Rocks!! Emmy Rossum Rocks!!
Regards
Michael loogman
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 129
Full Member
|
Full Member
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 129 |
On a good day, practice goes for at least an hour, hopefully two. Some days are hit and miss with 1/2 hour sessions each focusing on something different. It also depends on how much theory work I have. I've tried logging my time and I guess it averages about 12-15 hrs. a week. I wonder if the 4-6 hour practices aren't being done by the professional players...how cool would that be for piano practice to be part of your job! Lynn
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,034
2000 Post Club Member
|
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,034 |
I practice 45 min to 1 hour on an acoustic before I start work, 1 hour lunchtime on an acoustic and most days, 1+ hours in the evening on my digital (except for Friday - reserved for spouse ). On the weekends, if I don't have social commitments I take frequent "piano" breaks between household chores....But I'm totally addicted and would practice even more if I could..... The more I learn, the more addicted I become.
It's the journey not the destination..
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,921
5000 Post Club Member
|
5000 Post Club Member
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,921 |
Originally posted by Sandy Moore: But I'm totally addicted and would practice even more if I could..... The more I learn, the more addicted I become. [/QB] I know the feeling.
Slow down and do it right.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 608
500 Post Club Member
|
500 Post Club Member
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 608 |
Originally posted by Frycek: I get up at 3:00 am and practice before I go to work. I like to get 2 hours a day in. I work full time and go to school so in the fall and spring it gets tough. I like looking at my time over a week. I go for 10 hours a week at the minumum which is doable while I am in school if I stay focused. I also like this time to be spread out; not 6 or 8 hours all on the weekend. I progress faster if it is spread out during the week. I will start doing what Frycek is doing. Make some time before work to work on the technical stuff like chords, scales, and progressions and hanon. This takes 45 min. befor I even get to the music. Good idea!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 138
Full Member
|
Full Member
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 138 |
I have a very eratic practice schedule. Sometimes I'm completely consumed by what I'm doing (school, work, etc) and I literally don't play for a couple of months. Other times I'll give it a good 2+ hours a day. I've only been playing for about 15 months though.
I've learned some basic theory and have picked up a lot of technique. Sightreading, scales, arpeggios, etc. have all taken the back seat. I've only worked on pieces of music up till now. I plan to change that this summer though, as I need some more theory if I want to start improvising.
I can decently play the following pieces (though I would say none are really polished, and many are still actually unfinished.... I have a small attention span):
Satie: Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes
Debussy: Clair de Lune (arpeggio section is not upto speed yet). Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata (easy part)
Beethoven: Fur elise (didn't really work on the interuptions)
Schubert Op 90 Impromptu No. 2 (only the first three pages are upto speed( well, decently upto speed, I've heard others play this very, very fast)
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag (This one is quite fun to play)
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 8,483
8000 Post Club Member
|
8000 Post Club Member
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 8,483 |
hey, i didn't know Mozart composed 'Fur Elise' ?
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,921
5000 Post Club Member
|
5000 Post Club Member
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,921 |
Yeah, Beethoven must've swiped the manuscript when he was a kid that one time he visited Mozart.
Slow down and do it right.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 608
500 Post Club Member
|
500 Post Club Member
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 608 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 4,714
4000 Post Club Member
|
4000 Post Club Member
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 4,714 |
I hate to say I hate a piece of music, but Fur Elise (I just recently learned that meant: For Elise [a woman's name)...duh]) is NOT one of my favorites, by any stretch of the imagination. While a teenager my teacher made me memorize it before she would let me go on to a new piece. It took me about a month. Not suprisingly, I can still play about half from memory - about 50 years later. But I never play it; I just can't stand it.
Chopin’s music is all I need to look into my soul.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 138
Full Member
|
Full Member
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 138 |
Originally posted by signa: hey, i didn't know Mozart composed 'Fur Elise' ? Heh, its kinda funny, I've made that mistake numerous times. I don't know why I always instinctively think that Mozart wrote that piece.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 1,228
1000 Post Club Member
|
1000 Post Club Member
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 1,228 |
When I'm not working, I practice about 2 hours sometime 3 each day. Just started work as a temp full time for about five weeks of phone registration at a university and at the end of the day I've had it. It's hard to come home from work and practice - I didn't realize the energy it takes, physical and mental. But what's that line from the Chorus Line, "what we do for love" - most times I manage to practce about 1 1/2 hours. Looking forward to the first week of June when this tour of duty will end. Next one will be around the end of August.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,990
3000 Post Club Member
|
3000 Post Club Member
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,990 |
I'm good for 1 hour to 1-1/2 hours every week day with 2-3 hours spread out over the course of the day on weekends and days off. During the week, I come home from work with good intentions, but end up too brain dead to do any more then the hour's worth.
Usually I start off with some scales or other exercises to get the fingers into piano-mode. After that it's time spent working on various pieces I've assigned myself.
John
Current works in progress:
Beethoven Sonata Op. 10 No. 2 in F, Haydn Sonata Hoboken XVI:41, Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV 816
Current instruments: Schimmel-Vogel 177T grand, Roland LX-17 digital, and John Lyon unfretted Saxon clavichord.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Piano
by Gino2 - 04/17/24 02:34 PM
|
Piano
by Gino2 - 04/17/24 02:23 PM
|
|
Forums43
Topics223,408
Posts3,349,457
Members111,637
|
Most Online15,252 Mar 21st, 2010
|
|
|
|
|
|