Adult Beginner Piano Progress - 1 Year of Practice 

I don't mean to show off but after two years of practice I can play twinkle twinkle little star with only two mistakes.

i swear if I get another simply piano ad

It took me 3 years to actually know how to spell paino.

As a veteran pianist, this is my advice to anyone who wants to learn: *You must have the ‘want’ and ‘drive’ to learn this instrument. It can be personal or completely beside reason, you have to have a strong argument as to why you want to learn and not because it just looks cool, cause if that’s the mindset, your going to crash hard and abandon it faster than a dad going to the store to buy milk! Have a purpose, just a warning….* *Define the type of music you like and roll with it. It’s never a bad idea to go into classical works and learning about theory and applied music knowledge, but you want to learn so you can play the music you like, so go from there!* *Play for the love and passion for music, not for spite or revenge. You’ll be introduced to a lot of others that will make you feel inadequate and intimidated. Every artist bring their style to the table, and that’s never something to be ashamed of. Be humble and build yourself and your repertoire.* With this, you have a basic foundation for almost anything musical.

I tried to pick up the piano once but it was too heavy

This guy gave me the inspiration to sell my piano.

What kind of "beginner" starts using both hands at the same time?

Im a professional piansit, and although I commend his skill, I simply do not belive he never had lessons prior to this. I played fantasy impromptu in my final year of college after 13 years of the piano, meedless to say its hard. Although he played it well i just have to point out that it takes alittle longer then a year to gain the skill, and it took me like 4 to 6 monthes to learn the piece. So almost half of his practice time.

Plot twisted.... 1 year of playing piano After 17 years of playing keyboard.

It’s obvious he’s using Simply Piano because it makes you a piano prodigy in 3 weeks

*1st day of PRACTICE* *plays* Me: Oh come on!

Going from nothing to what’s regarded as one of the most difficult pieces of all time in a year is nearly impossible. The technique that you need to perform it is not something you learn in a year. It is something that takes many years for most people. Playing it with good musical expression is even more difficult, and not only requires years of piano practice, but also constant exposure to this kind of music. It is reasonable to take many more months to learn an intermediate piece for an intermediate piano player. This guy is a really good pianist but a bad liar.

I have a sneaky suspicion he had piano lessons as a child.

Your piano got bigger over time. They grow up so fast man😭

Let me guess you took lessons for 5 years as a child but "forgot" everything.

lol this isn't real. Hes been playing for years. Any musician knows you can't make this type of progress in those timescales. Even with lots of practice.

His first day of playing is already better than me LMAOO

40 hours a day, 11 days a week

Plot twist, the piano is actually a paid actor.

I’m calling this out. The guy already knows how to play the piano and made this 1 year progression look like he learned Fantasy impromptu within a year. I’ve been taking classical piano since age 7. Took me 8 months just to play Fantasy Impromptu at the age of 15. You need to build dexterity, muscle memory, and several other aspects to play this piece that you can’t learn by teaching yourself in 1 year.

You guys are just jealous he clearly practices 40 hours a day

Day 1: What is this....pinano? Day 4: Playing at Madison Square Garden

If you can learn it slowly, you can learn it quickly.

i’ve started learning piano using simply piano. i’m on day 2 and i’ve already started la campanella it’s such a thrilling piece

Others: I can't afford piano lessons, so I'm gonna teach myself Me: I can't afford a piano, so I'm gonna play with myself

this video destroyed my self confidence but thanks to these comments it got revived

1st Day - plays with both hands 4th Day - can read notes

I'm a beginner,ive been playing for like 8 months,but i can say that's really fake. you can for sure play things like für elise or river flows in you if you practuce enough(i'm sure i could do it too but right now i can't lol) one year, if you practice more than 4 hours day i guess you could also play fantaisie-impromptu but with the worst technique ever : for example you would be playing out of time,not using dynamics at all,not using the pedal correctly(he used the pedal at day 1 tho,that makes it more faker,at my first day of piano i didn't even know there were pedals lmao),you could make a lot of mistakes,and all the dynamics and techniques that this piece contains are actually used after at least 3/4 years of playing(wirg lessons by a professional) that you couldn't do if you learn all by yourself

Everyone is talking about his piano skills, but dude didn't skip leg day.

"You can only learn piano from a young age" - Said wrong people edit: Now that I think of it, either this guy's a quick learner, or he's had prior experience...

This dude is either just a late prodigy or literally practices 40 hours a day.

I almost believed this guy to not be capping, until his fantaisie impromptu performance

Damn 1800 hours on Xbox last year and I'm still trash

You can achieve your dreams if you practice 40 hours a day

Imagine this was a simply piano ad.

I started learning piano with 37. After 1,5 years of practice (with teacher 30 minutes a week and 30 minutes practice every day) I just learned playing "for Elise" and "river flows in you" 😅

*To anyone feeling discouraged that they aren’t making this progress...* He’d played A LOT before that first day. Guaranteed. I’ve been playing for 40+ years and I guarantee you that this is not ‘beginner’ progress. No way. Lots of give away clues... His whole action, posture, hand position etc scream many years of training. No one gets to here after just one year. Especially playing all those different pieces from memory. Fantasie Impromptu after one year? 😂 Um, no. Keep going. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad. The piano is a lovely thing to play and endlessly satisfying...just *never ever compare yourself to anyone* on a RU-vid video! The same goes for any instrument. Just enjoy yourself and have fun. Good luck :)

This comment section is just a competition who can play the worst xD.

Hear me out when I say this: Upon analysing this video and his progress, I have come to the conclusion that this video is most likely a fake, and a misleading progress video. Here are the reasons for my conclusion. 1. Finger posture. If you take a look closely at his fingers as he just begins in first week, his fingers are curved. This is the ideal standard for any pianists. However, he is in his FIRST week. In the first week, you simply don't expect a beginner to have excellent finger posture (take a look at Day 4 for example). In the first few weeks of picking up a new instrument, a beginner would always try to experiment with how to play the instrument; for piano, the first few days of a beginner's journey is always to try and see how to play the piano; and for violin, the first few weeks for a beginner is always playing pizzicato on the violin, instead of jumping right to playing with a bow properly. Thus, his accurate finger posture is very unbelievable for a beginner in his first week. 2. Reading music: In Day 4 up to the end of the first month, he appears to be looking, and reading off a sheet of music. In his first month, he states in his description that he started off with: "Random beginner piano tutorials and books (stopped trying to read music and started to learn music through online tutorials)". However, if you take a look at his music stand, a sheet of music is always there, and he seems to be reading off it consistently. Furthermore, he has to have some prior knowledge as to how to read a sheet of music, as he's in fact playing two hands coordinated in sync with one another. Normally, as a beginner, when you have no knowledge as to how to read music, and "stopped trying to read music", you wouldn't have the skill to play two hands coordinated together. Even if a beginner knows how to read music, they would not be able to read and play two hands together at the same time, and normally starts off with one hand. Thus, the description of the video, and the actual content in the video is very conflicting to the viewer, making the video less credible. 3. Repertoire: Let's list some of the pieces he has learnt in his progress, and the difficulty level of each of the piece. 1. Fur Elise 2:11 (Week 3) Let's quote a professional with a doctorate in music composition and classical music as to the difficulty level of this piece. "The work in its original form is quite difficult, and the below link shows why. There are several challenging sections that are less familiar primarily because of the unpleasant habit of many publishers and editors to vandalise works of the great composers by removing the difficult parts and dumbing down what is left. As a result there are several spurious versions that could be reasonably performed by an accomplished Grade 3 (ABRSM) student. The original version is around Grade 5 for ABRSM (the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music). In some syllabuses in the Americas it appears as Grade 7, presumably because their grading system is different or it is considered more difficult." In his playing, there are no traces of the "several challenging sections that are less familiar". To check out those sections, you can refer to Steinway artist Lang Lang's performance of the same piece ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s71I_EWJk7I.html . From the above observation, I assume that he is around ABRSM Grade 3 Standard by Week 3. That's less than a month for you to play a Grade 3 Standard piece. This may not be the most accurate representation, but here is a music teacher's approximation of the time it takes for a beginner to pass each Grade. "Beginner to Grade 1 - 23 months Grade 1 to Grade 2 - 17 months Grade 2 to Grade 3 - 13 months Grade 3 to Grade 4 - 11 months Grade 4 to Grade 5 - 15.5 months Grade 5 to Grade 6 - 18 months Grade 6 to Grade 7 - 13.5 months Grade 7 to Grade 8 - 15 months" To skip from beginner to play a Grade 3 Standard piece, including all the techniques (I believe I heard pedal sustaining the left hand as well?), in less than a month, is certainly a very impressive feat, so impressive it becomes quite questionable to the legitimacy of your progress. Clair De Lune 5:06 (Month 5): Clair De Lune is largely regarded as a piece which takes around Grade 7 to play. According to a user on an ABRSM forum regarding the grade of Clair De Lune, he states that: "I don't think pieces like clair de lune can be classified into grades but I do feel that in order to play the piece perfectly you should be used to grade 7 standard atleast.” According to many other sources which you can conveniently search up by typing "Clair De Lune grade", they all agree that Clair De Lune requires about Grade 7 level to play it. Let's refer back to the figure approximated by the piano teacher. "Beginner to Grade 1 - 23 months Grade 1 to Grade 2 - 17 months Grade 2 to Grade 3 - 13 months Grade 3 to Grade 4 - 11 months Grade 4 to Grade 5 - 15.5 months Grade 5 to Grade 6 - 18 months Grade 6 to Grade 7 - 13.5 months Grade 7 to Grade 8 - 15 months" From Beginner to Grade 7, you'll need about 23+17+11+13+15.5+18+13.5=111 months to reach Grade 7 standard. You played a Grade 7 Standard piece in 5 months! From this, I conclude that you must either be a piano prodigy, or you might have had prior piano training and is not a "true beginner" as to say. In month 10, you played Chopin Nocturne in C# Minor (opus posth) 9:06 (Month 10). Similarly, that is also a Grade 7 Standard piece, so you can refer to my explanation above. At the end of 1 year, you played Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu (op66 posth) 13:00 . In the RCM (Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto)) piano syllabus, Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu is considered diploma-level. To reach a diploma level, you have already passed all levels from beginner to grade 8. No matter how many hours you have practised, 1 year is not enough. To build up a steady foundation to support you to your level of playing at the end of your progress video (which is very proficient, I must say), you will need a very long time to learn the proper and correct technique. I hear very clean pedal, crystal clear runs in the right hand, and smooth arpeggios in the left hand. These techniques all take a LOT of practise and steady foundation to gradually help and assist you to the level of playing you had in the end. Can I ask how long you have been sightreading fantaisie impromptu? If your video was true, you would have taken at most a year to sightread fantaisie impromptu, which is very unlikely as you mentioned earlier you didn't even know how to sightread sheet music. Furthermore, fantaisie impromptu is memorised at the end of a year! Memorising and reading a sheet of music is two different things; memorising simply needs more time to do so compared to reading off notes. Thus, I feel that your progress is most likely a fake, and a misleading progress video due to finger posture, reading of music and repertoire. Reading your comments also gave me another perspective as to the impacts you have caused on the people watching your video. In one of your top comments, a person commented "This guy gave me the inspiration to sell my piano.", and another user mentioned "this video destroyed my self confidence but thanks to these comments it got revived". I sincerely believe that this video is a very misleading one, as it clearly has had negative effects on the self-esteem of the people watching your video. I hope you can understand where I am coming from, and thank you.

This comment section just proves how many gullible people exist. And how easy it is to take advantage of other people if you wanted to.

Brandon: "Im a beginner guys!" Also Brandon: "But I've been practicing for 4 years before I was a beginner."

Y'all just jealous if you think this is fake. I just learned Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 in just 1 week. I practiced 40 hrs a day and it's possible.

Upcoming video: Learning to play tennis one year long (Almost won Wimbledon)

This guy inspired me to learn piano, because I thought it would be so easy and in 1 year I would be playing like him. Now I've been playing for 3 years and all I can tell is it: no matter if he is a genious or a liar, just don't expect to be playing like hime in 1 year. Just multiply it for 6 and it will be more close of what probably will happen,.

He was no true beginner, of course. Don’t get demotivated by this video.

I slightly suspect that he's a pro acting like beginner in order to motivate others to start learning instruments

Roses are red, Violets are blue, There’s always an asian Better than you😉

He plays beautifully however the first day you got your piano, you did the scale with the correct finger placement, so that gave it away that you are definitely not a beginner.

Good Lord I wonder what would happen if this guy ordered a scalpel and a medical book from Amazon... brain surgery in what... 6 days?🤔

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Me First week: learning the keys Second week: learning the keys A month: still learning the keys A year: still learning the keys. Gets frustrated breaks the piano in half and throws it from the window. it lands on someone and kills him Third year: still in jail serving a 10 year sentence

I like don’t believe this. I picked up piano from nothing and it’s so difficult to put everything together when you 1st pick it up

Fur Elise after 3 weeks? You NEVER played piano before? How often were you practicing? Pardon my skepticism but this seems slightly suspicious.

As someone who has been playing piano for 5 years, this makes me feel like a failure

It's clear, that he wasn't a complete beginner at the beginning, but great video and progress anyway!

Un año es demasiado tiempo para aprender a tocar todas estas obras teniendo en cuenta que el piano es el instrumento más fácil de aprender a tocar. Creo que con un aprendizaje intensivo de 2 semanas ya se pueden tocar todas esas obras , con una sola mano y sobre todo con los ojos cerrados, porque cuando los abras te darás cuenta de que ha sido todo un sueño y que la realidad es otra muy distinta.

But can he play flight of the bumblebee at 3x speed on a five-string, electric, diamond-encrusted violin?

As someone who took piano lessons, there is no freakin' way this is "normal" progress. It's either fake or he's a prodigy. You need to multiply his timeline by 10 for a normal person lol

Day 1: After unpacking the piano, he can play the C scale with correct fingering. I'm guessing he's had some experience / lessons earlier on in life. But this is not to take away from the possible achievement of lots of practice and patience.

Even if this is fake, I watched this when I was 19 and it encouraged me to continue practicing. I’m now 24 and decent (definitely not playing advanced classical pieces anytime soon, but still I’ve gotten to the point where I can learn most songs I want in the specific genre I like). So I’ll say, either way, thank you ❤

Next video; how i became a pro golfer in 3 months.

If you’re a piano beginner then I’m the bloody pope

nah I don't believe he's beginner in the first place. The way he uses his fingers and position on the first day is too good for a beginner.

How fake do you want the video to be? Brandon: Yes

Him after 3 weeks: *plays fur elise flawlessly* Me after 5 years: *can only play the first 7 notes* Thanks for all the likes :) Guys I know he put a lot of time into piano and that's why he is really good. This is just a joke.

Remember; time is the most important currency in the world

He needs another year to learn how to stare and play piano at the same time!

I'm so sorry, but as a beginner piano student myself, this guy WAS NOT a beginner when he started, if only for the obvious reason that he already knew how to read music.

I'm no expert but on day one it looked like he already knew how to play piano....🤔

You were better in 4 days than I am after a year and a half......

Month 4: - Yiruma - River Flows in You We've all been there...

very nice to listen to but not the result of a year of playing the piano 😉

He's a piano beginner because he was used to playing organ. 😴

Good to know 85% of the population is a piano teacher, or atleast that’s what this comment section is portraying 😂

He learned more in a week than I learned in a year

I'm a piano teacher. I've been teaching for over 30 years and many of my pupils have gone on to professional level playing, entering conservatory and gaining other diplomas. This is not believable. There are also many, many errors. Im guessing that he had been playing quite a lot when younger.

everyone talkin bout his piano progress but no ones gonna talk about where tf he got all these different pianos??

This sounds like you’ve had training. Who’s reading music and playing with both hands by day 4 ?!

I don’t know you. But I have to say this...I’ve played guitar for over 20 years. I decided to learn to play piano, and after 1 year of practicing piano...I’m still practicing. Honestly this is very difficult to believe.

No joke, I’ve been taking lessons for four months and I just finally got to the point where I can play jingle bells. This dude has been either playing piano his entire life ooooor, he’s made it his full time job to learn piano.

This is all i have to say: "Roses are red, the sky is blue, there is always an asian better than you". gj anyways xdd

He's playing a new song each week and here I am taking one week for the intro, one week for the main part, one week for the end, one week for the crossing and another week for just practicing the whole piece. I like my version better.

I’ve been playing for 8 years and I still don’t remember any scales. bUt ThAnKs To SiMpLy PiAnO-

"This is my first time" Hits up the Zelda theme. No sorry, I don´t believe even the start

This guy has no idea how a beginner looks like

40 hours a day

I can't even imagine, how many people gave up on piano because of comparing own real little tiny step-by step progress with this absolute liar. Guys, piano takes time, so just keep practicing and in several years you'll be proud of yourself.

Fantaisie-Impromptu can be seen as the combination of Elegance and Virtuosity, being such an high level and difficult piece since it requires years and years of practicing all the piano different techniques, so, if you're going to tell me that in 1 year, starting almost from 0, you achieved to play fluently this piece, well, i'm not trusting it.

Day one...play perfect C scale with the first touch of the keyboard. Day three...Moonlight Sonata. I smell shite. 😆

This is expert level...

You know they're experts when they start playing Chopin

You’re skilled, I admit. I can never reach this height.

Clearly not a complete beginner at the start.

c'mon guys, 700+ hours a year is just under 2 hours a day

So, you started knowing how to play and then practiced for 1 year.

This is definetely fake. First of all, when we first see him play, his hand is perfectly placed on the piano with perfect and proper wrist posture. The c major scale that he plays requires a technique where you tuck your thumb for more efficient playing. That is a technique that's most likely a given for players who are not at beginner level, but for beginners that is not the case. He seems to be doing it pretty effortlessly though. He also plays very confidently and not in way where he is trying to figure what to do on the piano which is how everyone starts off like. Most people dont even play with two hands on the first week or 2?? That shows that this is not the first time he is playing. The case could be that he has either done lessons before in the past for 2 or 3 years but decided to stop and has started off again now or this is just not the first time he has played periodt. Let's say that this guy is a prodigy. That doesnt excuse his perfect aforementioned technique. Perfect technique is not something you are born with. It might take less time for someone but definetely not in a day. He says he managed to go through 7 books?? And master sight reading of that level?? In a year?? Let's say he didnt even learn how to sight read even though he mentions a sight reading practice book and that he has learnt almost everything through Jane's tutorials as he said. Its way easier to learn pieces through sight reading (when you have practiced it for while) than solely with the ear or by wathcing someone play , its just way more efficient. Of course though, for beginners, things like synthesia or wathcing someone play is an easier way to play since songs are easy at that level. But with chopin? Debussy? Mozart? No. These songs have many other things to master other than just playing the song like dynamics, intonation, etc. and he had those well mastered in fantasie improptu for example or even fur elise. Anyways, there are even more things that I could mention but those are the most noticeable. I just really wanted to point it out cause this has probably discouraged so many people. I just want them to know that this is defo not realistic so please keep up the good work and practice without feeling discouraged :)).

"Beginner" - starts reading sheet music, and transcribing songs. With harmony. Hahahaha 😂

Do I have a piano?no .am I watching this?yes

Chopin’s Fantasy Impromptu is beyond grade 8 and is often played for the performance diploma at ABRSM, for most pianists this would be 10 years with a brilliant teacher. To learn this in one years playing would require a prodigious talent that I certainly to not possess.

Amazing what you can achieve, if you abandon world of warcraft.