"Donal" wrote in message news:crkl6g$shc$1

I'm learning the piano. When I started four years ago, I thought that it
would take a year to become reasonably proficient.

I'm still hoping that I will be reasonably proficient within a year....

I would describe 'reasonably proficient' as being the point where the
equipment becomes transparent - when you can play stuff that gives you a
buzz without having to think about the actual playing. It's like having a CD
player that can change the feel of the music instantly through mind control.
Took me a good ten years or more...

Do you read dots? Take lessons? Compose? Play by ear? Improvise?

Here's some of my MIDI-based stuff...

http://www.wally.myby.co.uk/music/Ba...reamsFront.htm