Learning the Piano at 30+

[Brother D]

So... I've never played any instrument and wondered how many hours do you need to put in to be fairly decent? Is this something you can do a couple of hours a day and be proficient after 6 months? or are you looking at years?


Thanks in advance.

[Dracoro]

Depends how "naturally" good you are, a good "ear" for a note/tune etc.

Some people could do 6 hours a day for years and still be crap

Personally I would "test the water" with a few lessons from a decent tutor then take it from there.

[dxg]

If you've got 10,000 hours to spare you'll be fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29

[JensenA]

As long as you are not tone deaf and have a musical ear, just go for it before it's too late, you will always regret it if you don't. And be positive about it, you will always be better than you are now

[MrCheese]

Find a good teacher and take lessons. It will give you discipline, direction and stop you going down dead ends.

[Marcellus]

A others have said, it all depends on how "musical" you are...... I bought my wife a piano for Christmas one year, for two months before Christmas I tried to learn so that on Christmas day I could play her a tune (Cheesy I know but it was "The Christmas Song")... anyway after two months I could play all the notes in the right order from memory but it still sounded absolutely ste and like a 2 year old playing for the 1st time.

What made it worse was after my abomination Mrs M stepped over and with a glance at the music played it flawlessly... I've never touched the piano again...

[audidoody]

Do you want to play by sight-reading sheet music

or

Playing chord patterns and scales


Huge difference in type of teacher you will need.

[Eric Mc]

You should try learning it at 50+