Hello, for the first and second year of piano. Is Studying just czerny, hanon, scales and arpeggios for 2 hours every day a efficient way to get good?

It is a good way to get good at czerny, hanon, scales and arpeggios, but at some point you are probably going to want to play some actual music.

There is nothing wrong with practicing czerny, hanon, scales and arpeggios - but they are no substitute for actual music (which is where the real learning happens).

Well, you will become good (or decent) with the czerny, hanon, scales and arpeggios you studied.

What kind of music do you wish to play for an audience?

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I wanna get a good and remarkable repertoire, and I am determined to do it. I took piano classes for 5 years when I was really young. Now, I am sixteen and I regret not continuing playing when I was young. I know in the correct tempo 3 pieces (Nocturne in C# major, Turkish March and Nocturne in Eb major). I came back to play 3 months ago and I would like to know if it is a good way to study in order to get a fast improvement.

In my opinion, and take it with a grain of salt since I'm a beginner, you need a much more varied practice routine. The reason I say this is, given the 2 hours you are spending daily there is much time to do many things. I'm practicing 1 - 1.5 hours a day, and can fit in a good deal of variety at 10 - 15 minutes per item. I typically can cover scales, timing exercises, my primary course book, a secondary song book, a couple of other pieces I gathered, and miscellaneous item or two. The variety and mixture has really helped me overall. Its the principle of many small repetitions, versus few large ones. Plus working on songs is what its all about, after all.

There are no shortcuts. You simply have to put in lots of concentrated and intelligent work.

I took less than two years at the piano, but this year I started with this routine (2 hours/day, 5 days/week):
- Aural training: 30m
- Melodic-Rythmic reading (outside piano): 5m
- Sight-reading: 15m
- Technical exercises (Aloys Schmitt, Op 16 chromatically transposed): 10m
- Scales, arpeggios: 15m
- Repertoire: 45m

Hi there.

I did spend quite a bit of time in the hannon and other exercise books and the dexterity I developed was most useful. I would say that two hours a day may be a little much but if you have the time why not. After some time at the exercise I moved more toward learning new pieces and developing my own technical exercise to deal with difficult passages I encountered. I play mostly jazz and popular music and love theory a lot as well.
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