Simple answer (the most powerful truths are simple): Who cares?
Let me ask you a couple questions in order to answer yours:
What is your purpose in playing the piano?
Are you postponing enjoying making music until some specific goal is reached and only then will you be happy?
Unless you are a professional musician with professional needs, your goal ought to be to reap the maximum enjoyment from the time you spend at the piano or keyboard. This is easy to do, for you can enjoy learning a piece, and once it's done, you can enjoy performing a piece.
Notice that I haven't even dealt with the fact that the original question is too general to have an answer. Play WHAT - "Mary Had a Little Lamb" or Beethoven? How well? For whom, your dog or the President? Such things matter. But what matters more is your attitude as you work on those things. A calm, happy demeanor produces the best learning. Worry, stress, or an obsessive need to have it all NOW results in sloppy practice and poor ability.
Enjoy the journey AND enjoy the destination.
Let me ask you a couple questions in order to answer yours:
What is your purpose in playing the piano?
Are you postponing enjoying making music until some specific goal is reached and only then will you be happy?
Unless you are a professional musician with professional needs, your goal ought to be to reap the maximum enjoyment from the time you spend at the piano or keyboard. This is easy to do, for you can enjoy learning a piece, and once it's done, you can enjoy performing a piece.
Notice that I haven't even dealt with the fact that the original question is too general to have an answer. Play WHAT - "Mary Had a Little Lamb" or Beethoven? How well? For whom, your dog or the President? Such things matter. But what matters more is your attitude as you work on those things. A calm, happy demeanor produces the best learning. Worry, stress, or an obsessive need to have it all NOW results in sloppy practice and poor ability.
Enjoy the journey AND enjoy the destination.
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