![]() ![]() If you just take the bits you like and ignore the rest, or take different bits from different methods there is every chance you'll miss something important. But if you accept a teacher's method it is probably best to accept all of it, because if they are successful, it is the whole package that works. There are lots of different routes to becoming a pianist - probably as many as there are good teachers. One route to becoming proficient at piano with minimal intellectual effort is to find a teacher that you trust, that gets good results, and simply do as they say. ![]() Others, some of world class, claim never to have done a technical exercise or etude (or scales - except in so far as they occur in pieces) in their lives. #Czerny etudes by difficulty professionalThere have been professional pianists that claim to have devoted months (in one case a whole year) to nothing but technical exercises for hours a day to improve or rebuild their technique. How much time to devote each day? There is no simple answer? It depends on what you are trying to achieve, your stage of development, the methods that your teacher uses, your temperament and character, the level of your technique, the repertoire that you would one day like to play. When you have learned to play any exercise well there is not a lot to be gained from spending huge amounts of time continuing to repeat it over and over, but it is a good idea to play it now and again just to check that you haven't lost any of the skill. When you have only a few exercises it is not a big deal to play over them all every day, and do a bit more work on those that are not properly mastered.Īs you learn more and more exercises that becomes impractical, so like it or not, you have to make a selection, and as the skills of many of the earlier exercises are probably implicit in the later ones, some of the earlier ones can be dropped completely. is that they are nevertheless a very useful and efficient way of learning new techniques, and that they allow you to devote your attention to the problems of physical co-ordination, without having to worry about matters of musical interpretation. The other view, while conceding that it is not essential to use Czerny etc. with the added benefit that you get some performable music under your belt as a result. ) etudes, and that you can learn all your technique from the pieces that you study. One school of thought is that you don't need to learn ANY Hanon exercises or Czerny (Burgmuller, Kalkbrenner, Cramer. What percentage of the daily practice time should be devoted to Czerny versus pieces and scales? She plays about 6 at the moment, previously played a few others which she doesn't keep playing for now. Your comment that she is above a big proportion of population and that she had a significant acheivement made me swell with pride.ĭo one keeps playing the older Czerny exercises, or move on to new ones? Or do people normally just keep adding on more and more. If she is improving steadily with this teacher, and the teacher has a generally good reputation, then I think you should trust the teacher to assess your daughter's needs, and choose the right etudes, pieces, and exercises to meet them. 599, which is rather elementary, covered stuff that your daughter has already mastered. ![]() Reaching Grade 4 is a significant achievement.Īs an experienced pianist (but not a regular teacher of piano) I would have thought that Op. It might seem basic to a diploma-level pianist, but by the standards of over 99% of the population it is not at all basic. Grade 4 basic? It depends which direction you are looking from. Can anyone enlight me as to which book is suited for what piano grade? Or am I completely off the point, and possibly off the planet? I would have thought that Grade 4 level is still quite basic and she could have done with op 599 (which to my unmusical eyes seem an easier book to do). We don't have that book but we have got a Op 599 book. For technique, the teacher keeps giving her Czerny op 821 pieces from the teacher's own collection to play. ![]() My daughter is playing grade 4 level piano pieces at the moment. ![]()
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