How Long Does It Take To Become A Professional Pianist?

[@Realityoftenhurts]

Self taught guide: 1. Don't use those Piano tutorials that have you play individual notes by themsleves to play a song. It's better if you develop the skill of sight reading and find the sheet music with chords. 2. Practice learning by ear often but don't disregard sheet music. Chords will be your best friend. 3. Once you're at least decent at sight reading, attempt to play simple songs like Mary had a little Lamb with a metronome. This will help keep you on beat and later you'll be playing harder songs on beat. 4. Posture is really important. A lot of self taught pianists look really tense when they play piano. Relax, calm down. You want your body to be loose. 5. During my highschool performances, I noticed other performers used one finger to play multiple notes. If possible, try to use your fingers intelligently. Even if that means slowly gliding your hand towards the notes you wanna play to use certain fingers. This will not be the case for every song. Sometimes you will have to do that. I guess what I'm trying to say is use your hands intelligently. As if they had purpose in being where they are. 6. While you practice you don't have to run through the whole song, and restart wherever you mess up. Break the song into parts and practice with one hand. For example, of a song required you to change patterns a lot on the right side of the piano. Practice that side, and focus on accuracy. For the moment, forget about beats. Just get the fingering down. Then once you feel confident move on to the left hand. Then after that, play the whole song, even if its off beat, just to see if you have it down. Then you can play on beat later. 7. You can train your ear by playing a note an attempting to sing it. You could also play a note, have someone quiz you and ask "what note was that" to train. But attempting to learn songs by ear, just going out of your way to actually seek knowledge is probably the fastest method. This still will take time to develop, and sometimes it won't. Theres a lot of people born with good pitch and it's never fully realized until they actually attempt to learn music. 8. Self taught pianists are hardly professional. That doesn't mean it's impossible. Maybe somewhere out there, someone talented like that exists. If theres not anything preventing you from taking lessons. Please take lessons.

[@matticawood]

100% agree! 😊 Those piano roll midi videos are the devil 😂

[@Realityoftenhurts]

@@matticawood Absolutely.

[@lowlightpiano7110]

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[@TangoPianoSecrets]

A way to speed up the process is by learning different styles at ones. For example I teach Tango, but all the material works for any lead sheet. Pair that with Classical technique and some Jazz and you will profile half the time it takes! Good luck!

[@giblegabite929]

1:40 - i developed a "perfect pitch" purely for G sharp and only G sharp because it is the first note in fantasie impromptu which i have practiced a little too much 😅

[@TheBread__]

interesting video. might help me to practice piano better

[@matticawood]

I’m glad you liked it! 😊

[@michaelmeyer2725]

I always love your videos. I tend to learn something every time I watch one. Keep doing these Q&A videos. They're good fun! Lastly, my own Q: Hardest piece of music you had to learn and how did you do?

[@Ammar_Violinist]

Congrats on 20k man!! U really deserve it. I have been subbed for about 6 months and OMG UR VIDS ARE SOO GOOD I’m looking forward to when u probably hit the millions and looking forward to more videos! Congrats again!

[@whydamage2074]

1) Do you find memory or sheet music ideal for playing pieces ? 2) And how do you get started with sight reading if you are too lazy ? great vids by the way!

[@Quartereli]

amazing video, I’ve been playing piano for a while now and you have explained it well!

[@frezzy2998]

Im playing piano by myself for like 12 years and now I feel like I stuck. Im trying to get into jazz for beign universal in music.. any tips broski?

[@AtlanticNotesPiano]

Good vid! :)

[@noriskyy]

Great video!

[@dimplekujur2826]

I learned Yiruma river flows in you within two ( I learned the advanced versio)

[@dimplekujur2826]

I have a challenge for you Matthew. Can you play Flight of the Silverbird I want you play to play the version made my BGH music 2

[@fen4flo]

Hi, I've been wondering myself how good I actually am at playing piano. I've been playing for a little over 10 years now maybe, but I feel like I've learned nothing. I can play a lot of songs, but most times I can only play them taking shortcuts or not fully through. I noticed myself struggling at playing pieces with polyrithms and stuck to simple octave chords that are covered up by the right hand. I sadly couldn't find a video that gives out tipps for already experienced pianists. I wanted to ask you, what I can do or how I should start practicing again at my current stage. :)

[@jasonguo1073]

I have perfect pitch. Don't stop me now is written in the key of F. should use the F major scale for a better result. still good tho

[@goodboychrismas3263]

Been long but keep up the good video but I need to know how to play piano with 2 hands I’m stuck on piano with 1 hand

[@naveenjedia7338]

hello i am learning piano from last 2 years and now i want to start learning film scoring and game scoring also so what should i do . from where should i start please give me some guidence

[@kacperosipiuk9252]

nice video

[@matticawood]

Thank you! 😊

[@afrustana6576]

Hi Matthew. You absolutely need to react to "happy Fning birthday" by Ethan Bortnick. It's my current favorite SONG.

[@iamharrypottah1916]

How do you record the P45 without any audio interface? Because I have tried to record one mine but it doesn't record the audio or are you just using your microphone?

[@austinsavage4390]

How do you do quick trills in time with the left hand? I am learning Mozart’s sonata No.16 and am reallly struggling on getting the trills right.

[@Goldendawn-b6s]

Are you still learning it?

[@austinsavage4390]

My teacher stopped teaching me this for a bit but now I have it pretty much perfect. One thing, I can’t play the long trills quite fast enough.

[@Goldendawn-b6s]

@@austinsavage4390 have you tried different fingerings?

[@austinsavage4390]

Hmm, no I haven’t

[@austinsavage4390]

Hmm, no I haven’t

[@mustafajilanipiano]

Can you please breakdown a song by Yanni

[@toxicenddragon]

2 million subscriber special reaction please

[@thefrankandbeansshow6914]

2nd time asking. Will you please react to Steven universe music

[@lowlightpiano7110]

Repent and trust in Jesus. we deserve Hell for our sins. For example lying, lusing, saying God's name as a cuss word and stealing our just some examples of sin which we can all admit to doing at least one of those. For our sin we deserve death and Hell, but there is a way out. Repent anf trust in Jesus and you will be saved. Repentence is turning from sin. So repent and trust in Jesus. He will save you from Hell, and instead give you eternal life in Heaven. John 3:16 Romans 3:23😊❤❤❤