1 Year Piano Progress - Absolute Beginner

Here is my 1 year piano progress from being a beginner buying a piano in august 2021, to now.
I hope this gives some insight into how progress can be made with piano from not being able to play to knowing a few pieces.

[_benk]

To clear something up due to some negative comments, in this video I learn small parts of pieces I liked, to this day I have only learnt 3 or 4 pieces fully to the end. The parts you see me play are likely all I know

[dylanbm]

Crazy how people are saying it’s fake when he’s admitting to practicing up to 7 hours a day. Insane dedication keep it up

[boabyk]

Good video - I think the negativity comes because they don’t see the amount of takes that had happened pre upload. YouTube is a powerful tool for learning things - I’ve definitely used that a lot since I started a year ago. Keep it up you’re doing well.

[catapultcolors]

If you are a beginner and commenting this is fake, I think that when you look back on his performance after some years, you will find that his playing was as a beginner having fun with small excerpts of popular works.

[zeinabiman]

lil tip- clair de lune sounds WAY better without too much pedal

[pureblood]

After six months of teaching myself from scratch I was playing Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no 3 to a fully packed out audience at Carnegie hall so yeah not bad progress for yourself!

[TheSunnySmash]

100% fake..started as a beginner myself, practiced 2-3 hours a day in the beginning with piano lessons once a week and your finger skills etc. looked very confident at the beginning. Either very hard to believe or you are truly gifted/played before..

[chfrankenstein]

Absolute beginner?? 1 Week and play without notes...

[MYPIANOMOMENTS]

Hi,
I am also a piano beginner and started playing when I was over 40 years old.
Your progress is really impressive.
Keep it up!

[tonyokrongly]

Very inspirational. I think it shows the difference between the classic - start with Ode to Joy method of learning piano "the right way" and the video game version of just teaching your fingers how to do certain things through muscle memory. No way you can sight read and play a whole piece, but it's super cool. I'm 53. My first keyboard (with weighted keys) will arrive next week. I look forward to doing both. I'll take lessons, but I also want to just learn bits of songs that sound impressive. Thanks for the inspiration. I have no doubt you did this as you said. It just takes lots of work.

[IVANKK]

Man, this is amazing progress you made in just a year! Congrats!

[jiajiapiano]

It's so amazing, you perceive music like a master, I'm learning piano too, but I need to learn how to express music from scratch.

[EgoDeather]

Learning to read music is critical early on. Sheet music is way more than just what notes to press, it has literally everything you need to know about the song. You will likely mess up finger placement, and get used to other "bad" habits that learning sheet music would have otherwise fixed early on. Great progress regardless though!

[shirleypianosounds]

Good job, familiar pieces I learned too, and ignore the critiques, the bits they see they won’t see the effort going into learning that section 🎉

[edenschannel]

We are he same people🤣 jumping straight to hard pieces despite barely being able to read. Oh well I enjoy the challenge

[Phymacss]

That’s some real dedication and talent you have for piano! I can’t even play with two hands properly lol.

[juliewillard]

I have been playing piano with a teacher for 3 months and only just starting to play with two hands. You were doing this within a week? If this is true, you are very gifted.

[Phymacss]

Ignore the hate comments. It’s like telling an artist their art is just printed. It goes to show how great you are!

[anthon.]

If you don't mind me asking, could you please please please tell me the song that you were playing at 4:42, I have been on the internet for like 20 minutes trying to find it and I just can't so please please tell me the piece

[igwilo]

great video but I also started teaching myself the piano when I was 14. I played very difficult pieces so the advice I have is to be careful with technique because playing some difficult pieces early can hinder or damage your technique I will give you a list of some options Liszt Romance, Tchaikovsky sweet dreams op 39 no 21, Eduard Schutt a la Nuit op 60 no1 other than that keep up the good work