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Anyone else out there feel as if they're never going to progess out of the intermediate level? I've been here for years and years!
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you don't realize you've left it until someone brings it to your attention.
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That would be a step up for me.
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I feel the same way. I can't imagine ever being "advanced."
Although there was a time not so long ago that I couldn't imagine being "intermediate" . . .
Cindy -- thinking there need to be more classes of "intermediate," like "just barely intermediate," "barely intermediate," "almost intermediate," "firmly intermediate" and so on
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Originally posted by JosephS.:
you don't realize you've left it until someone brings it to your attention. How does this happen? Also are there levels of "intermediateness"? I think there must be but for the life of me wouldn't know how to define it.
"These are the good old days" --Carly Simon
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Cool, Cindy and Octavia were thinking the same thing at the same time.
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I'm Octavia's sock puppet.
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My measure of advanced would be if I could pick up almost anything (within reason) and sight-read in reasonably well. I wonder if that will ever happen - although I do notice a good improvment since last spring.
You will be 10 years older, ten years from now, no matter what you do - so go for it!
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Originally posted by PStudent:
Anyone else out there feel as if they're never going to progess out of the intermediate level? I've been here for years and years! I'm not sure that "heck" is a good description for where you are. It's a journey. Some move more quickly than others. And yes, it's so unfair, but some will always be better than others, no matter how hard you practice to achieve parity. If your only focus is on the end destination (advanced technique) no wonder you are impatient. Slow down and enjoy what you can do and marvel at the fact that (insert years here) years ago, you couldn't play at all! And if you aren't enjoying the pieces you play, maybe it's time to explore other types of music?
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills
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I like to think I'm very advanced as compared to the people who started this year, but much less advanced than almost every one else.
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Originally posted by plays88skeys:
It's a journey. Some move more quickly than others. And yes, it's so unfair, but some will always be better than others, no matter how hard you practice to achieve parity. Exactly. The focus is on the journey, not the destination.
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The pieces you are practicing are well into the RCM 'advanced' repertoire. So yes you are not an intermediate level player
Please excuse me. I have to go practice
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cindy - i like your ratings for intermediate....
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Originally posted by Octavia: Originally posted by JosephS.:
[b] you don't realize you've left it until someone brings it to your attention. It will happen someday. I can't explain it. I don't consider myself advanced either but according to my repetoire list I put on the pianist corner when I was in search of a Liszt piece for an audition, I am apparently considered an above average pianist.
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Originally posted by PStudent:
Anyone else out there feel as if they're never going to progress out of the intermediate level? I've been here for years and years! how many years have you been playing? if it's around 10 years, maybe it is too long to still be at intermediate level, i guess. if it's only around 5 years, then i'm pretty sure you'd be out of it in couple of years. it will happen definitely, and one day you wake up, you would become advanced (as progress is always taking stairways)!
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Intermediate heck!
Oh man, I cant wait until I get there!!!
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. [Salvador DalÃÂ]
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Intermediate heck from what I can tell leads to advanced heck  . Once you arrive there's a boat load of difficult music waiting to kick your butt  . Why do we love it so  ?
Keep a song in your heart!
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It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not!
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My teacher says that I am an "Early Intermediate"   . I think his watch is fast  .
Keep a song in your heart!
Frank
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It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not!
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Intermediate heck?...advanced heck? It really does sound like heck  Lee
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