2.5 Years of Piano Progress / Adult Self-Taught (2000 Hours)
Lately I've been seeing a lot of 1 year progress videos pop up on my feed and they are all inspiring. I never had really thought about putting a full progress video together before watching them.
But here it is. A 2.5 years, ~900 days, ~2000 hours progress video. I hope you enjoy it and that it motivates you to start (or keep) playing!
Here is a summary if you want to skip to specific parts:
Month 1
00:40 Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
Months 1 - 3 (the usual beginner pieces) (August - October 2020)
01:08 Ludovico Einaudi - Una Mattina
01:39 Ludovico Einaudi - Fly
02:01 Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'Un Autre Été
02:20 Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni
02:39 Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
Months 3 - 6 (started playing classical music and learning how to read music) (October - December 2020)
03:25 Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement)
03:56 Chopin - Nocturne Op.9 No.2 (E-flat major)
04:27 Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
04:48 Erik Satie - Gnossiene No.1
05:12 Learned a piece using sheet music for the 1st time. I didn't film it, though. It was The Shape of Water (Elisa's Theme)
Months 7 - 9 (got a little busy with work, so I didn't film much) (January - March 2021)
05:31 - Jacob Ladegaard (aka Jacob's Piano) - Bo's Theme
05:51 Yann Tiersen - Porz Goret
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6:19 - Pretending I was playing The Dark Knight
Month 10 (played in public for the 1st time, at King's Cross St Pancras, London) (June 2021)
06:39 - Ludovico Einaudi - Experience
Months 10 - 12 (I decided I needed another challenge, so I tried learning pieces way above my level. I tried Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement, No Time to Die and Arabesque No.1. I didn't film them during this time because I was focused on making progress) (June - August 2021)
1 year (I recorded the pieces I was learning during months 10-12) (August 2021)
07:27 Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement)
07:43 Patrik Pietschmann - No Time to Die
08:03 Debussy - Arabesque No.1
Around 1 year in, I moved to a different house and I had limited access to a piano. I had been playing on my flatmate's piano until then. I still practiced sometimes, mostly on public pianos.
1 year, 3 months (learned the next 30 seconds of Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement) (November 2021)
09:05 Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement)
1 year, 4 months (I bought my first piano, a Yamaha P-45. From this point on, I started filming more often and real progress was made) (December 2021)
09:29 Fantaisie Impromptu right hand
09:44 Fantaisie Impromptu left hand
10:04 Fantaisie Impromptu right hand
1 year, 5 months (put both hands together on Fantaisie Impromptu and recorded a 1 month progress video) (January 2022)
10:27 - Fantaisie Impromptu both hands
1year, 6 months (February 2022)
11:29 Fantaisie Impromptu both hands, but better
12:00 Nocturne Op.9 No.2 final section
12:36 Arabesque No.1 final section
1 year, 7 months (started learning Ballade No.4)
13:01 Chopin - Ballade No.4, Op.52 in F Minor practice
Full progress video: https://youtu.be/mBpBS1oYCjk
1 year, 7 - 8 months (I watched Ludovico Einaudi live for the 1st time and was inspired to compose my own music. After the concert, I learned a bunch of Einaudi's pieces again, but I didn't add them to the video because they don't show any progress. They are all uploaded on my channel as covers and synthesia tutorials, if you're interested) (March - April 2022)
13:38 Kamariera, my 1st original composition
1 year, 9 months (1 month later, I composed another one) (May 2022)
14:13 Memories, my 2nd composition
15:01 Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) 1 year progress video
1 year, 10 months (tried to learn Aeolian Harp) (June 2022)
16:07 Chopin - Étude Op.25 No.1 Aeolian Harp attempt
2 years (I practiced Fantaisie Impromptu for 2 months and recorded a 7 month progress video) (August 2022)
16:30 Fantaisie Impromptu
2 years, 1 month (I composed another piece) (September 2022)
17:10 Artemis, my 3rd composition
2 years, 2 months (I bought a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-745. It was time to upgrade) (October 2022)
17:51 Chopin Revolutionary Étude Op.10 No.12 practice
2 years, 3 months (started practicing with a metronome) (November 2022)
18:18 Revolutionary Étude with metronome
18:56 Revolutionary Étude practice on a public piano
19:13 Revolutionary Étude on another public piano
2 years, 4 months (I composed another piece) (December 2022)
19:45 Crossroads, my 4th composition
2 years, 5 months (kept practicing the revolutionary étude) (January 2023)
20:15 Revolutionary Étude 2 month progress on a public piano
2 years, 6 months (I released a short album on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. It is made of the 4th pieces I composed in 2022.
And I decided to learn Interstellar (end of January 2023)
21:00: Interstellar - how it started
21:22 Interstellar - how it's going
22:25 Fantaisie Impromptu update
23:27 Outro / Crossroads
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