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bluepeach 发表于 2015-3-10 09:44 
歪楼了，赶紧给正回来。
本贴的目的不是去讨论天才，如果与天才相比人人都得自杀。
那也不是，一级三首曲子三页纸，五级六首二十页，差别还是很大的
况且考试拿C和拿A+工作量也差很多，几倍时间的差别。况且有的孩子努力也考不到A+或者专业级
Parents who are paying for piano lessons don’t necessarily have aspirations for their children to become world-class concert pianists. However, many parents have aspirations for their children to become ‘really good’ pianists, or at least to have achieved a reasonably high level before they ultimately give up (to pursue medicine or law). So this got me thinking… how many hours of practice gets us to a ‘reasonably high level’? Is there a number, an actual numerical goal that we could work towards, that would get us to about 8th grade piano?
Yes, there is. But before I discuss this number, the reason I’ve quoted 8th grade as the ‘reasonably high level’ is because 8th grade is so often perceived as ‘the end’. I have had many students who just want to get Grade 8 done because then they will be ‘finished’. This is not so. Pianists who have done 8th grade have not ‘finished’ their piano study. There are diploma examinations after 8th grade, if one still wishes to be in the examination system, and then of course there is the whole world of undergraduate and postgraduate study at University, piano competitions, overseas study… the list goes on.
But let’s get back to the number. In my teaching experience, the amount of practice needed, over a period of years, to be prepared enough for an 8th grade standard of exam is… about 1,500 hours.[1]
1500 hours of piano practice certainly sounds like a lot, but really when you think about it, that’s only 2 hours’ practice every single day for just over 2 years… woo hoo! 8th grade done in 2 years! How easy is that!
Oh, that’s right. Students don’t practice two hours every single day. In fact I’m lucky if most of my students practice two hours every single week. There’s always some good reason why practice hasn’t happened (see ‘The Seven Deadly Practice Excuses’). And teensy weensy beginner students certainly can’t practise that long. So here is a more realistic breakdown of how the 1500 hours would eventuate.
Let’s assume you are about 6 years old and have just taken up piano lessons. The teacher has asked that you practice 15-20 mins 4 times per week (perfectly reasonable). If you actually do this, after a couple of years or so you will have invested around 150 hours into piano practice.
150 hours is a good solid beginning. Now you and your teacher might be thinking about working towards a Preliminary Grade piano exam (so that you can join in with your friends in the playground when they are all talking about what grade they are up to).. So if we can say that 150 hours has seen us through the beginner stages, how much more practice do we need to put in to do well in a Preliminary grade piano exam?
A typical scenario is that of taking one year to attempt a piano exam. Most students who attempt Preliminary can do very well on 5 x 20 mins practices per week. Over a school year, allowing for holidays, this would probably amount to 80 hours of practice.
Now you are 9 years old, you’ve put in your 150 + 80 hours of practice and you’ve just received an A for your Preliminary exam. Well done! You are thinking about Grade 1. The requirements for Grade 1 are slightly more involved; there’s at least 15% more technical work to learn and the duration of the pieces is longer. So you will need to increase your practise time to about 90 hours for Grade 1 – assuming you still want to get an A!
If we take these scenarios and build up about 15% for each successive grade, we can work out a rough guide for how many hours it might take to achieve well in each grade and eventually reach the seemingly all-important and highly regarded GRADE 8. Please keep in mind that the following table, in fact this whole article, is a guide only!
Grade Total Hours Practices per week[2] Minutes per practice
Prelim
80
4
25
Grade 1
90
4
30
Grade 2
105
4
35
Grade 3
120
5
30-35
Grade 4
140
5
35-40
Grade 5
160
5
40-45
Grade 6
185
6
40-45
Grade 7
220
6
45-50
Grade 8
250
6
50-60
The important point here for parents, students and teachers to have a realistic expectation of the commitment required to do well in exams. There’s no point forging ahead year after year without increasing the practice. Defining the preparation as a concrete number of hours’ practice needed can really help to assess whether you are ‘ready’ to take a particular exam.
The best way to keep track of how much practice has been done is to keep a practice log. By reviewing your logs regularly, you can see whether you’re doing enough preparation, or if you’re falling behind. Either way, it takes a lot of the guesswork out of wondering if you’ve done enough practice.
And one final word: This is a guide only!
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发表于 2015-3-7 11:56
