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Position:Home>Performing Arts> When I study the piano by myself how can I tell if I play well? (i have been takQuestion:but for the last 4 years i 've been studying without a teacher). any tips or ideas on what to look out for? thanks! Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: but for the last 4 years i 've been studying without a teacher). any tips or ideas on what to look out for? thanks! The problem you have is that you don't know what you don't know. The reason teachers are important is because they understand what you don't know, and can help you overcome those shortcomings. If you insist on teaching yourself, you'll only ever be as good as your natural understanding of music will allow you to be. well if youve been studying for years you should have idea If you are learing it for last 4 years and still no body is interested in it. It is the evident of how well you are making out this. I would tape record myself playing, give it my all, then play it back & listen carefully... "A World of Music at Your Fingertips" http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20040708/artic... (I play piano for the enjoyment of it.) When my daughter was young she played the piano every day doing scales and lessons and I would be in the kitchen or pottering around the house doing whatever and then one day the music changed. She and the music became one. I could hear it in the music and I could see it in her face. I saw that she had become lost in the music - that everything else had disappeared except her and her music. It was a magical moment for her. Even though she still had to work hard at it she knew what the essence of it was and it changed her view of it. When this happens you will know and it won't matter so much to you whether you are playing well because you're there, in the moment. |