How to be a professional pianist wihout formal training?

Question

I just want to become a professional pianist. Or just have the skill to play like them. But I don't want formal piano training that would last for years. I just want self practice. how can I do it? What things do I need in my self practice? I do have the Virtuoso Pianist in 60 exercises by Hanon and is practicing it. I also have Czerny's School of Velocity. I'm willing enough to give up AT MOST 1 hour of practice for piano (i have a lot of other things to do like schooling. I'm just 14 years old). Please help.

Answer 1

If you really want to be a professional pianist, you'll have to be a bit more willing to put time and effort into it. An hour a day will work for now, but in the long run, it may take more than that.

Here are a few books I'd recommend:

-Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Piano Course - Level 1,

-Young Pianist's Anthology of Modern Music

-Easy Classics to Modern (Denes Agay)

I also recommend this technique website:

-http://www.pianoeu.com/expl.html

In the future, it may also help to check in with a piano teacher/professional, just to make sure you've got the proper technique and etc, down.

Answer 2

you just practice and practice an that is what they do. but i would think it would have to be more but it can be later in life. you can do it and play all sorts of things and just learn as much as you can that is help full you are doing what i would love to do and i am 58 i love piano and i dont' know a note but would have loved to learn to play and someday i will i know it.

Answer 3

This is how you become a professional pianist (or as good as one) without formal training: get formal training.  There's no way around it.  You can do exercises until your fingers fall off but if you don't know how to play piano, actually play it, you need a teacher to get you started.  Since you are older it probably wouldn't "last for years," especially if you have self-discipline.  Just a few years with a teacher would help get you started.  Teaching yourself may make you into a  mediocre or decent pianist, but without at least some formal training you'll never be a great pianist.

Answer 4

first let me say, its commendable that you want to learn piano yourself. but then let me say that you are highly delusional. professional pianists like my piano teacher practice for eight hours a day.... an hour is half his warm up. i warm up with Hanon, but exercises will not get you anywhere. you cannot skip formal training, that's how you learn bad habits and get yourself some painful carpal tunnel. you cannot become a professional pianist without training, just like you cannot become a surgeon without going to medical school.

Answer 5

The same way you can become a physicist without going to college.

Answer 6

Do you know how long people who are dedicated to becoming professional musicians practice?  Not one hour a day... I can guarantee you that.  They practice from between 4 to 8 hours every day.  You think 1 hour a day of practice and without the direction of a piano insctuctor is going to get you into the professional world???   That is like expecting a salary with no job....  Not happening.   There is a reward for the hard work people do.   You just keep practicing on your own...  there is no problem with that... but just don't expect some big time professional paying job to come your way....  anytime in this life.