09/13/2017
Learning music - sometimes, once you reach the higher grades of RCM, it might seem that the harder the pieces, the more time it takes to practice, and thus that it would take an impossibly long time to learn multiple ARCT songs for example.
While this is partially true, there is good news. Eventually, learning new songs becomes easier and easier. Sight reading accelerates, the technique you first learned in your Chopin piece you can now use in your Rachmaninoff - everything accumulates.
And so if you spent over 1 year learning your first ARCT songs, now it will take you only a few months to learn more.
So keep practicing, daily, at least 1 hour if you're a beginner, 4+ if you are advanced, and you will start to see that if you practice hard, things eventually get a bit easier. It will be a lot easier to play songs that require skills you've already acquired - whether sight reading, fast sixteenth-note finger-work , crazy octaves, or large Rachmaninoff-esque chords.
But of course - if you ignore your acquired skills for too long you will lose them!
- Dominik
