How long does it take to learn to play the piano well?”
Everyone is different and you have to have a good teacher but . . . 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening every day without fail for six months and you should be able to play basic beginner tunes. Keep it up for another six months and you’ll be banging out simple pop or classical tunes. Another six months and you’ll be into more complicated stuff and so on. Learning to play the piano is about taking a series of microscopically small steps over an extended period of time. At first you won’t notice anything happening and then after a couple of months you’ll realize you’re making progress. The best way to learn a piece of piano music is to practice the left hand 10 times, then the right hand 10 times then put them together slowly 10 times, then faster 10 times. In other words it can be very tedious, but after a year or two you will look back and see it was worth it. Sight reading (playing a piece straight off without any practice) is harder and to some extent depends on
