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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I’m curious what kids are playing in recitals who have been taking piano for five years. My 10yo DD is good at piano and takes it seriously, I thought, but I don’t know how she measures up against serious students. She certainly doesn’t practice for 1-3 hours a day, and she’s never done a competition (I guess her teacher isn’t into those?). She goes to school all day, has lessons of various kinds four days a week, wants to see friends occasionally, has homework some nights, and so on. Where is the two or three hours each day for practicing? [/quote]

My 10 year old daughter has been taking piano for 3ish years.  She practices 15-30 minutes a day and is pretty good (notwithstanding this minimal practice - PPs with 2-3 hours a day - WHOA!).  At her recent recitals she has played Beautiful Blue Danube, Gypsy Rondo, Dorothy, Tarantelle - lots of pieces from the classic red book "My favorite solo album."   However, we are now going to have her start playing more contemporary "fun" pieces (at least for a while).  With classical piano . . . after mastering each piece, she would (of course) get assigned another beast of a piece and it was starting to become a real slog.  She is not going to be a career musician by any stretch, and we are not a family that particularly enjoys/listens to classical music.  My extended family has the open-mike/part-time band for fun/play in a high school band type musicians - and that is what I want her to be able to do if she chooses.  So I had an epiphany - why slog through classical when she can (continue) to learn piano playing the things she likes to hear/sing/play.  So far (a couple of months into this experiment) the teacher is going along with it . . . .   Despacito, Havana, Stand by Me, Remember Me (Coco) . . . .[/quote]

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