Thank you for posting this. I am an 80 year old man, just starting to learn, for the very first time. Your progress has been phenomenal. If I can do 30% as good in the same time frame, I will be thrilled. Keep it going. Think of all the people you are inspiring!

This actually amazing. As someone who plays the piano for over ten years i can easily admit that it took me way longer to reach your skill level. This video is pleasant variety to all these fake videos where people pretend to be beginners. You have my full respect and you show what people can do if they have the will to do it...

my parents got me in piano when i was three and they forced me into practicing 2+ hours a day every day. after a good 8 years i was tired of the recitals and competitions and stop playing piano. videos like these are the ones that got me back into piano after many years. thanks for the awesome video and good luck with all the new pieces you will learn in the future

Hearing you play Claire de Lune, even just the beginning of it, at 11 months is extremely inspiring for me. I love classical music, and to hear one of my favorite classical pieces being played after only playing piano for less than a year, that was impressive to me. Great job, this was an experience to watch, and good luck on the rest of your piano journey :D

I took piano lessons for 6 years, starting at the age of 9, (that was 1959) and I still play. It's not uncommon to spend two or three hours a day on the keyboard. Of course it's a lot easier now that I'm retired. Trust me, sometimes it gets frustrating, but in the long-term it definitely is worth it. Hing in there.

This is one of the most realistic Piano journeys I have seen on KZfaq. I admire the grind. A lot of these people put up videos where they start playing easy pieces in the first few weeks with proper fingering, shapes ( like the curved pinky finger, lol) , and complete dexterity; I just hate that. For example, no matter how talented you are, you are not getting that curved pinky while playing during your initial days, it takes monthsss. Keep up the good work, man. :)

Great progress! Thank you for sharing!

I just started piano as a new year resolution, and came across this video. I even ordered the same piano! Great job! very inspiring

Wow! Very inspirational! I am just starting to learn to play the piano and you give me hope...thank you!

Amazing job! Never give up and keep playing 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

An honest progression i love it! You're doing great, keep it up!

Very well done!!!! Keep it going… it is inspiring

Clair de lune is my favorite piece, and my inspiration for wanting to learn piano. You did a wonderful job to my ear. Thanks for the progression video!

It's incredibly good that you can play that amazing song for just one year of experience!! It's really a thought-provoking video to watch! Keep it up man don't waste your hard work!!

Congratulations!! This is very inspiring. My parents started me on piano lessons when I was 4 and ended up dropping it because I developed perfectionistic expectations of myself... I've had a difficult relationship with music ever since. Videos like this are such a good reminder that you can always improve and enjoy yourself no matter where you're starting from. Good luck!!!

Respect the grind! I'm also teaching myself and and almost 5 years later i can finally play Clair de lune "decently" well. In a couple years when you look back to the beginning stages, and appreciate how far you've come it's incredibly forfilling.

Great journey!! I'm a adult self taught learner, too! 🎹And share with my son I teach self taught along too. We practice regularly since about a year and started learning from zero about 3 years ago 🙌🏻 will follow your journey now!!

Really funny to see how casual you were on day one just being happy to play a few notes 🤣 and then seeing it manifest into some really nice music over the months. Sick progress! Where is my mind, at 9 months, was my favourite :D

Just want to give you a high five 🙌 I also started learning to play the piano In July 2020. Keep sharing videos of your progress with us 👍

Excellent work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This is really cool! Nice one!

Awesome progress, keep it up!

I did the same thing over quarantine I knew how to play only a little bit but I had the music theory I just wanted to get better. One of my favorite pieces by my favorite composer is Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi and that is the piece that quadrupled my skill playing. I self taught myself also so what I an saying is the people that have basic understanding of piano by that I mean can play an octave scale both hand pretty smoothly go straight to learning Nuvole Bianche the original version not the easy it is an amazing piece, you learn a lot from it, and it is mega fun to play. This is kind of dragging on but the reason why I wasn’t getting better before was because when I was taking lessons (only a few and she pretty much taught me hand positioning which is a big deal and helped) she would give me the easy version of songs which I like to listen to the song and then play it I have a decent ear and I could never find the exact version. Anyways learn a few easy songs like canon in d easy or river flows in you easy and then move to hard songs. Yes they can be challenging but it is fun and you feel good when you learn a harder piece from all the hard work you put in😁 this was a great video!!

This is a real progression, not like Many youtube videos where after 8 months they are already able to play la campanella. In order to improve I suggest you a piece : gymnopedie n 1 by satie, simple but really satisfying

This is awesome man. I'm learning myself. I've about a month in. Still suck but I can mostly play "Don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith cause my wife asked me to learn a love song for valentines day. Got a few days left. This level of progression you made in a year is truly inspiring. Good job man. Congrats. I was impressed when you played Prelude at six months. Kudos.

Brilliant progress

Excellent. I'm 54 and began piano 2 month ago so never too old. It's like learning a new language.

This is amazing!

On a similar journey just about one year later: I started in November/October 2021, and can now play a couple of folk songs (chords and melody), play songs by chords a bit, and use the sustain pedal somewhat like it's supposed to. It's hecking cool.

Thank you for inspiration :)

That was so awesome and inspiring, I have always wanted to learn the piano and bought myself one that's supposed to arrive in a few hours now, I hope I ll be able to dedicate to learning the way you did it, I can't even imagine being able to play with two hands one day, but now that I saw you I am so motivated, i ll try one hour a day at least, if I can do a tenth of what you did in one year it would be sooooooo cool... Thank you so much for your video, I've loved it and am superxcited now. Keep it up you obviously have something 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

This is extremely good progress for only a year, its clear you have put in a lot of hard work over the year to get this kind of result.

Inspirational. I'm 61 and my keyboard arrives on Monday. I'll be following a similar path I hope.

6:56 Yes! Zanarkand is such a beautiful song, you nailed it too. Zanarkand inspired me to start playing

At 41 I have been wanting to learn how to play for about the past 5 or 6 years. I was always intimidated by not knowing how to read music or not having any background in music. I finally decided I’m going to push myself to learn and not regret never trying. I’m 4 days in and can only hope I make half of the progress you have. Your skills came a long way from when you first started. I’m glad I came across your video and thank you for being an inspiration

Great effort,

I'm so happy you play Polovtsian Dances. I'll receive my piano within a few days and i'm very excited

For 11 months your version of Clair de lune was really good! Keep it going!

Excellent progress! Well done!

i spontaneously got my first keyboard this last christmas. So far playing stuff like Mad world and Rains of Castamere. Technique still needs a little bit of work but I'm trying to be meticulous in self correcting those type of mistakes. It's been a blast. You're learning at a phenomenal pace btw. I had the luxury of being a guitarist most of my life before I started playing the keyboard a few months ago.

Great progress over a year!

Hey, great video! That felt really true and encouraging, unlike many others videos where people seems to already know something, I dont know, they seem fake videos. I started to learn piano when I was a teenager, but my teacher died shortly after it, and that demotivated me. Now, 12 years later, I'm thinking in restarting learn it. Need to buy another piano since I got rid of mine and yours' sounded beatiful. Thanks for sharing your progress!

Nice video and very good progress. Obviously your knowledge of rhythm helped you kick start your learning. I was self thought as well before I started taking lessons about 3 years ago and Clair de lune is still above my level. Classical pieces can look deceptively easy. For the romantic period things like pedalling, dynamics, phrasing, playing the top note of a chord as melody, playing rubato, etc... is very important but I'll stop being a snob :D What matters is that you enjoy playing

Amazing bro 😍🥰❤️🎵🎶🎶

Got a p45 today and was recommended this, wow

Nice dude. Keep it up!

Good work brother man

Funny how we have a similar musical background ! Drummer here, 9 months in the piano journey, keep up the good work !

Congratulations on 1 year JGP - keep it up my friend

Finally a real progress video, you are doing better than I expected, definitely quite talented :)

Thank you for posting this. I'm finally acting on a 50 year dream to learn piano. I am waiting for my keyboard to be delivered and I'm encouraged by this video

It's very nice that you played dvořák in the first week

"oh, apparently i can" is definitely my favourite reocurring thought that i have when practising!

Very nice! The thing I noticed was that your piano looks rather high. your arms shouldn't go up from your elbows, you should have basically an L shape that may be angled from your shoulders outwards a bit. Its hard to describe but there are lots of videos shown you. The right height makes a HUGE difference in comfort and fluidity EDIT: it looks like you've fixed it by the end.

I am just learning music theory right now. I plan on starting my journey on the keys soon. You are an inspiration!

I was no where near your progress level so early. Congratulations!

Very impressive progress ! I dropped a tear for zanarkand ! I ll definitely play it when i will be ready ! Keep up the good work !

Finally a honest 1 year progress piano video. Thanks

Finalmente uma evolução no piano verdadeira, vc realmente é bom

IMPRESIONANTE, ENHORABUENA!!

You , young man are very talented. Many People during this Pandemic promised to the world that they would be healthier, fitter, stronger, more in touch with themselves, learn an instrument , blah blah blah... This is a perfect example of putting in the time, effort, and stubbornness required to get where you want to be. Believe me - it shows 100%! I've followed a similar path on the piano. I am improving but not nearly at your rate. Thanks for uploading and keep improving 👋.

Appropriate ad for *Simply Piano* 😂😂 Nice video👏

Bravo, keep it up! I’m also practicing daily, let’s continue to improve are musical ability. Hope to see more of the journey on this channel!

dude nice ! i played for 5 or so years starting from grade 5 or 6 (like 10 or 11 ? ) and seeing people make progress and sound good makes me want to get back into it

Nicely done! I also learned “Where Is My Mind” in the first year, great song!

Impressive man!

Great progress Jorge, keep it up!

You play beautifully!!!

Bro your are nearly as good as me after 5 years wtf Insane progress, keep going!

Amazing progress ! would love to know what books / notes you bought that you had in the first couple of months. Im 43 and learning with my kids. I have no music background what so ever so ive decided to get into it.

You are really good by the way :)

This is amazing! I started piano but could only go to classes for a couple months and then Covid hit. I really do wanna a start up again.

Amazing!!!!! 🙌🧎

I was the 200th subscriber :) congrats

Over a year you have managed a lot, and I know If you keep your level of discipline and your love for music, great things are yet to come. Keep It up, really well done! I believe In you! "Patience Is The Key to Persistent Success"

So inspiring I just started and I was just feeling like I would make no progress This helps a lot

This is sick bro keep it up🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

Amazing

Hi. I’m using piano adventures too. Do you go trhough intire books one and two? Your performance is amazing.

Amazing !! What did you do for training ?

Felicitaciones por tu talento. Al estudiar solo lamentablemente se cometen errores tan simple como la altura del banco que debería hacer que tus codos queda a la altura del teclado. Por lo que se ve en el video estuviste 8 meses para corregirlo. Con respecto a los movimientos que deben realizar para tocar lo hace bastante bien de manera intuitiva aunque, aprendiendo técnica con una guía adecuada llegarás mucho más lejos. Adelante 💪

Great

well done bro I am very proud

You're really good!

Awesome evolution, keep it up! Also: do you recommend Adult Piano Adventures Book 1? I'm not an absolute beginner, I would consider my level similar as your 7 moths level but I find it hard for me to learn by myself without any guidance..

wow It's really impressive that you learned to reading sheet

You look you have been playing the piano for longer than one year! Great!

clair de lune.....the notebook...your really doing it man...love it

I'm 27 and I just bought my first Piano. I just started and now I have been playing for a month. I wish I can have the same progress as yours.

great progress! little side note: I'd recommend you to set the stool a bit higher. your elbows should be at least at the same height as your wrists, if not even higher. try that out for a few weeks! once you're used to it i'm sure you won't go back to the old set up.

My teaching method works by half of the time reading music, the rest by theory, ear training, rhythmic studies. Taking lessons eliminates much trial and error.

very nice sharing ; it is reel . not like other unrealistic progress

I just starting to learn and i have a 20 years old And thank you for inspired me🙏❤️ From Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo

good improvement👍

Playing slow is the key excellent. I am a beginner I could understand what you going thu. Awesome

You really should think about buying an acoustic piano! At the skill level you have reached it would definitely be a worthwhile investment.

To Zanarkand

Your very good for a beginner but you still need to work on a couple things. As someone with 8 years of experience on piano who practices daily I would like to give you a couple tips. One: with long jumps don’t try to stretch try to use movement in your arm to make them. Two: try to keep a lot of movement in your arm try to never tense your arm/wrist. Three: never give up with piano there is a period where everything you play seems really difficult and it makes you want to quit this period lasted about one to two years with me. Push past that, you will get really good if you do because I pushed past that period (it was roughly 4 years ago) now I am able to play things like moonlight sonata all three movements, Chopin op 10 no 5, and listz’s un sospiro. When it feels difficult keep in mind how good you can become if you do you will be better than I am now.

Good job 😘🥰

My first year was spent on trynna learn how to do moonlight sonata to still dre.