Nice, man! It was fun rewatching this with your comments. I laughed with you at both Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mvt attempts 😂 To answer some of your questions, indeed I learned almost all of these pieces using KZfaq tutorials, including Arabesque and Fantaisie Impromptu (Rousseau's videos). Looking back, dynamics and technique were lacking, but learning the maximum amount of pieces in the least possible time was what kept me going at the time. After uploading this video, I realised that I wanted to get more out of the piano and to do so I needed to work more on dynamics, musicality, technique, reading music and to learn some theory, so I decided to have a few private lessons for guidance. I started practicing scales and arpeggios at the beginning of each session (5-10min) and to use sheet music to learn pieces, instead of tutorials. I learned some Einaudi, Händel's Minuet in G Minor and Pathétique Sonata 2nd Mvt - I uploaded both in my channel. Once again, I only picked songs that I really enjoyed listening to, even though they were a little more advanced. I can learn pieces through sheets, but I can't sight read. It's not my main goal to be able to sight read. A little after that I decided I wanted to create my own piano arrangements / play by ear, and so far that's what I enjoyed the most. Whenever I'm stuck, I try to get a lesson for guidance. Thanks for the lesson on arranging 🤝🏼 It's all been a big experiment, but I think my main goal is to compose more original music, piano arranangements and to be able to play anything by ear. If anyone is still reading, I will upload a 4 Year Progress Video update in August / September, so stay tuned ;)

2000 hours in just 2.5 years is crazy .. Props to him for such consistency and determination

Matt your level headed and optimistic approach to piano learning is an absolute joy to watch, one of the big reasons I've just started learning. Keep it up man

Half an hour of Matt explaining music. What a treat. I find it interesting he went from Tiersen and Einaudi in the learning to play stages to Satie and Chopin, but then went back to Tiersen and Einaudi to help inspire him on his own compositions.

I like that you mention that moonlight sonata is written in cut time, however counting it 1, 2, 3, 4 is maybe not the best advise, and actually contradicts what you explained before, that this time signature has 2 beats. I would suggest counting 1 and 2 and instead. Or in this particular case, 1 - trip - let - and - trip - let - 2 - trip - let - and - trip - let. Aside from this, great video by you and obviously a stunning dedication to learning this instrument by Luis!

I have seen his video before and was particularly impressed with how he was analysing his experience and playing as he went along. Well done Luis!

I have started practicing the piano on my own in the evening a few days ago and found his video, then your channel - I was really curious to see how your comment would go. I'm really pleased to see so much useful advice (the vertical reading one is something I have to try this evening). It seems so hard to come by useful content like this online, where there is an incentive to be inflammatory to get engagement. I'm going to keep going and I'm really grateful to you and others who spend their time spreading knowledge that helps those of us who can't yet afford lessons or who simply need to go through a different path for whatever reason. On reading sheet music first: that's the path I'm going through now because I'm not that good at memorising from a KZfaq tutorial and for now my progress is nowhere near what is shown in his video. On the other hand I'm playing even while ill because it makes my day a bit better, so we'll see how this goes. I weirdly enjoy scales and beoken chords too. :) Juggling work, a house and a small (demanding!) child is hard.

Your comment about looking at the vertical notes for hands (RH,LH,HT) is revolutionary! I’m an adult learner, just passed Grade 1 after 9 month, hoping to pass Grade 2 in November and the step up from sight reading hands separately to hands together has been almost impossible for me. Going to try to utilise the tip vertical reading, or at least use the 30 seconds to analyse the bar notes vertically. Cheers Matt!

Wow fantastic. I am loving my music and my piano journey

I learned that there's a difference between learning to play the piano and learning to play piano pieces. It's easy to jump to the pieces and miss out building up enough technique so that you can play a lot more piano pieces and with less time.

One important thing to remember is that as he says, he makes tens of recordings before managing a perfect one. That being said, his progress is still insane. I quite proud of my 1 year 8 months with 1h a day, I'm comparable to top piano progress videos. But this guy is truly the most incredible I've ever seen.

I'm so glad you did this reaction, Luis Graca was the person who originally inspired me to start playing piano. I love his progress and his dedication, he's so impressive.

Playing 2 hours a day for 2.5 years is crazy! Props to him!! I am still in high school and started about 3.5 years ago so I don't have that much time to practice.

Really enjoy these videos. They remind me to practice! lol

W Always nice learning from you m8

And here I am after 3 years of classes, where I still cant practice for more than 45min-1hr straight per day. Hands start tensing up, and I just stop understanding the sheet in front of me. Very impressive progress, and nice commentary as always.

Hey just wanna say I love your videos, you and frank tedesco inspired me to learn piano after 2.5 years.

Underrated Pianist Matthew Cawood, nice Video 👏.Best regards:)😊

I’m also self taught and 2.5 yrs in…. This guy is light years ahead of me

With 2.5 years such fluency is commendable

I've noticed another thing. It's one thing to play on a digital piano and playing on an acoustic piano. I just made the shift from a Kawai Digital to a Yamaha B3. The feel is quite different, or so I think. I remember Josh Wright saying if we only have a digital piano to find an acoustic piano every once in a while and practice on it.

Im playing the piano for 2 years and im learning pelude in C# minor from Rachmaninow is this good or slow?

How are these guys so good after like 2 months where I still get notes wrong on Grade 1 pieces after a year?

Which pieces would you recommend for a beginner to learn ?

A lot of progress in a short time. It's hard to imagine someone learning difficult pieces by brute force than in a systematic way even if there is a performance date coming up next week. A piece that requires fast runs, lots of big jumps just can't be put together by force. Needs a lot of slow repetitions to get learn the notes and gradually speed up to the ideal tempo. Hands relaxation definitely. Playing a difficult piece without the relaxation tension would build up quickly that you wouldn't be able make it to the end.

This video is both inspiring and frustrating. Inspiring because you see that some people can learn quite a lot of piano playing in such a short period. And frustrating because I am more than six years on this and can't remotely reach tthat level. So, well, I will keep trying!- Perhaps one of my "faults" is that I am playing keys on a band and so that takes also lots of my playing / learning time. You can't have it all!

In 3 months i a can play interstellar x experience (Tony Ann) is good ?

How do I send a video for your reaction videos?

over 2hrs practice every day man dedication does he work from home lol ? i try and do 30-60 mins most days and would love to be able to play half as well. I'm always surprised by the number of people who can play so well but haven't learnt scales and arpeggios .

What is the name of the first song you showed him playing? Thanks!

you should react to Tokio Myers, very interesting pianist

Hmm.. @mathew cathwood, the slant of the comments is good but "too bad you aren't learning properly" without regard to motivation. Perhaps the alluded drills or music reading could have been engaging rather than numbing however, he managed to practice 3hrs a day. He scored an A++ in choosing things that motivated himself and that is the highest success. Ofc this isn't all that was discussed but idk felt critical rather than "if you are considering doing this, practicing x is useful here and here's a _fun way_ to do the practice because you don't want to develop aversion to sitting down and playing". Feedback aside, thank you for creating this video. Watching it has me feeling inspired to buy a keyboard and begin my journey.

Please more Animenz reactions! Especially his 10th anniversary My Dearest, its one of the best piano arrangements made for anime music.

We just got a piano and me and my partner are both total beginners. We’re learning using an app. But even though I’m way behind him on the app, I’m actually far better than him at this point. He’s just speed running through the app and unlocking all the songs he can. Whereas I won’t progress to the next lesson until I can 100% whatever it is I’m learning. I know this because I made the same mistake when I learned guitar as a teenager. I know that in a month or two’s time it’s gonna catch up with him and he’ll hit a wall when he tries to learn something more complicated.

You need to react hide n seek of ethan bortnick! The drop is crazy we need it

I think I did like 20 hours in 6 years so 🤷‍♂️ I think I am exaggerating but it really feels that way I have been playing more had teachers at the start not anymore though. Seems like I have such little hours in all the stuff I do AHHHHHH.

Aaaah You're the reason I keep getting pianists in my recommendations. I don't have money for a piano. I have to play virtual piano in roblox. :D

Sorry but im sure he is cheating. After 1-3 month he can play a intermediate piece with accent