does talent determines the speed of picking up keyboard ?

[joashchee]

With talent things will go easier. I have a friend who rarely play music... in fact he does not have the instruments at home ... but in his mind he can know quite exact the beat, how to play, how to improve playing on this part, that part .. His listening, timing is way better.

I find out that I can spend a lot more time playing... but in the end, what my head is visualizing music still far worse than his ... only my fingers can move here and there faster ...

I think that partly separates the talent with the non-talent.

I think that really something overlooked here is the way a person is perceiving music. As mentioned above, the person can do stuff 'in his mind'.

After training up 5 new students with the scoreless music method, with some of them having prior traditional 'pop piano' training that got them nowhere near where they wanted, I can conclude that it's really how you're 'processing' the music in your mind.

With certain processes, you reach your results slower than some other optimised processes. It's really all in how you train your mind to perceive and actualise.

My personal feel (for non-classical approach) is that thinking in chords as alphabets will slow you down greatly and it has so far been proven true when those trained in alphabet chords take scoreless music and discover how they can do things a lot faster, a lot simpler, a lot more by instinct.