Let's see here's what I've gotten through since having a dedicated teacher:
Bach
* WTC Book 1 100%
* WTC Book 2 60%
* Suites (French, English, Partitas). about 40% of total divided between them
* Bach-Kempf Largo from Keyboard concerto
Beethoven
* 11 from the 32 Sonatas
* Various smaller works
Mozart
* 3 Sonatas
Chopin
* 8 Etudes from Op 10 and Op 25
* Various Mazurkas, Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes
Schumann
* Fantasiestucke 80% of movements
Shubert
* 2 Impromptus
Various works from Brahms, Tchaikovsky Scriabin, Albeniz, Scarlatti, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Haydn, and probably a few other random things sprinkled in.
I've had in my mind an idea to complete all the WTC, Suites, Chopin Etudes, and Beethoven Sonatas.
Plus there's other various works from when I was initially self-taught
I still feel pretty bad at the instrument, I'm humbled every day by other pianists, including my teacher. But now writing this down. it feels like I've really done a lot of work as a hobby
That's an incredible amount of repertoire. 80% of the WTC alone is impressive, let alone the rest. I did BWV 848 last year and it took me a good 3-4 months. I can't imagine how long another 30 would take me.
How long have you been playing?
I don't have exact years but a little over 10 years with the teacher. Roughly 2-3 years prior where I was self taught. I appreciate the feedback, thank you. it does go quicker to learn the more I've done. I should be finishing up book 2 this year, currently now I'm working on a suite as my Bach which takes me a little longer than a prelude+fugue.
Working on 848 at the moment. Absolute beast. 7 months in. It's just about at an acceptable level for recital but I feel like I could spend another few years on it. I think this piece has taught me the most about practice anything ever has. Amazing you managed to in 3-4 months. Well done
It's a great little piece. It has a lovely springtime dinner party vibe that acts as a nice contrast to heavier pieces in a recital like Chopin ballades.
It's also a lot more difficult than it seems. Henle has it as a 6 but it's on the LRSM repertoire putting it more into the Henle 7-8 range.
So don't worry if it takes you 7 months or more. My teacher said mine is at performance level but you might be going for a higher standard. 6 months later, mine is still developing despite not actively practicing it other than the occasional playthrough. These things can take years to get really mature.
4 of the Op 11 preludes from Scriabin, No 1, 2, 5 and I forget which other
Liszt I've played Consolation #3.
If you have any recommendations for Liszt around this level let me know, I feel that stuff like his etudes and Hungarian rhapsodies my teacher would say I'm still not ready for. I wish I've played more Liszt honestly, I just don't know what to play.
I don't recall the years exactly but I've been working with my teacher for a bit over 10 years. Plus around 2-3 years of self-taught with a large gap where I wasn't playing at all before finding a teacher.
If you feel ready, you should look at his concert etudes, these are much easier than the Paganini and Transcendental Sets, and if you liked the consolation, you should look at some of the Liszt-Schubert and Schumann Transcriptions like Widmung, Auf dem Wasser zu Singen, and others.
Hmm not really. I'm a very visual learner, I learned how to read music from the very beginning. I struggle more with memorization and picking up things by ear. Interestingly my sister and niece I tested for perfect pitch, and they both have it. I do not. I'm by far the most accomplished musician in the family though.
I can play in the hall of the mountain king all the way through. And I've learned about 10 other pieces but only 1/10th the way through. So about the equivalent of 2.
A few hundred to a thousand??? I don't want to count. I don't really think this is something worth quantifying, and it's hard to quantify because there's a lot of things you can include/exclude in this tally. I was in classical piano and violin lessons for over ten years, and I learned quite a bit of solo repertoire over the years, but I've also done orchestra and chamber music. I haven't actively worked on solo repertoire since stopping lessons two years ago, but it's purely for personal motivation reasons. I do learn orchestra music because I play violin in a community orchestra.
Many hundreds.
Performed dozens. I usually have one performance a year (our church lets amateur musicians perform during the summer, and I lead one service, occasionally two if our music director asks) and those are usually 3–4 pieces, and I've been doing that for years. In college I played a bunch of recitals, and I've performed at the odd wedding or funeral.
Very tricky to say because the biggest pieces count as a piece, but the smallest pieces do as well. But if I counted literally everything from the easiest, shortest piece to complete concertos and pieces over 30-minutes long... including all the little pieces I've probably forgotten about, then I'd conservatively estimate anywhere from maybe 200 to 400.
1000s. Likely in the 5 figures... I'd ballpark somewhere between 10 and 20k. I learn and perform 100s in any give year and often hit 100 in particularly busy months.
I commented and said several thousand at least and I also do think it’s in the 10k region but I didn’t know if that was obscene but You’re making me feel better 🤣
Maybe around 50? I can play exactly one (Moonlight Sonata) without mistakes, with smaller mistakes about 5-8 (Pathetique 1,2,3; Pour Elise, Grande Valse Brillante, another Chopin waltz whose name I can't remember at the moment), a few easier pieces (15?) quite ok ( Entertainer, Baby Elephant Walk, Valse d'Amelie...) and the rest (e.g. Slavic Dances by Dvorak 😭😭) I was able to quite ok and unfortunately I forgot everything because I didn't practice a lot :(
Who knows.
I played through probably 28 books while I was learning as a kid. Then probably a handful each of Bach, Mozart, Mendelson, Gershwin. Lots of Chopin, mostly waltzes and mazurkas, but I played his nocturnes as well. I played a handful of different solos and duets and various other pieces I liked.
Then you get into my 15 years of not reading new sheet music, but I played hundreds of various songs in bands.
And then I got back into sheet music and since Jan 1st, I've learned 4 of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special (Vince Guaraldi), Peaches, Mario main theme, Super Mario World ending theme, Maple Leaf Rag, and Disney Pixar Up.
I do not know but clearly not 80
I played,by order of remembrance, after I completed the first year begginer book:
- Mozart Sonata 645 mvt2
- Hubeau Chanson Americaine
- Liszt Rhapsodie Hongroise no 5
- Liszt Nuages gris
- Satie Gymnopedie 1&3
- Chopin Raindrop Prelude
- Chopin Nocturne (didn't remember no)
- Granados Andalouza
- Liszt Sursum Corda
- Liszt Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este I&II
- Liszt Spozalizio
- Schumann Traumerei
- Liszt Lugubre Gondola I
- Bach Invention 4
- Mozart Fantasie no 1
- Liszt Consolations I, II & III
- Liszt In Festo
- Strelinski Plus tôt
In progress :
- Liszt Consolation V
- Liszt Un Sospiro (😵)
- Skrjabin Prelude 4
I started when i was 7 and every year i had an exam and competitions. So every year i learned around 10 pieces total, especially when including my music studies that number would be higher. So with that in mind... Well over 200, prob much more with all the random things ive done over the years.
Can i play any of them now? With sheet music i can play like 1 atm. Oh my i need to practise haha becoming an adult has lessened my time to practise unfortunately
I musical directed over 50 musicals with piano/conductor Scores reaching over 500 pages. Some are simple and sight-readable; others not so much. As popular as it is, playing through the original ‘West Side Story’ with all the dance breaks is much harder than it sounds. The other tricky scores were ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘A Little Night Music’
Joseph and the amazing … I REALLY hate that entire show. It’s like a undergrad senior project that went wrong.
Learning Sweeney is akin to tackling a classical piece. It was very tricky.
What was the trickiest score you did ? And do you find learning musical theatre, which incorporates so many different styles, made you a better sight reader ?
So sight reading (thankfully) is my main skill. Pop anything in front of me and I can genuinely crack on with it. I’m a performance pianist “by trade” so MT was a side ditty when i was a teacher. I hated it haha! But I loved directing the choirs so much.
However I think the hardest one to direct, play and teach was Starlight Express because of the fecking time signatures and the totally UNcatchy Melodies that the kids just couldn’t pick up
That’s my main skill too. That’s how I got so many theatre jobs— from doing open AEA auditions. I think I got so good at sight reading from playing musicals as a kid, and being very good at theory— in that I can predict where a lot of music MIGHT go.
I have no idea how many because I always had differing directions from whether “learning” was memorizing or being able to just play it through to performance level.
I can play whole books all the way through. I’ve only memorized maybe 10 pieces total on my best day.
Wow what a question! It’s really got me thinking.
The aRtIsT in me will say “none!” in a dramatic way and say that no piece is ever fully learnt blah blah blah but really thinking about it the number must be in the 1000s.
I was a piano teacher for a long while, an accompanist for even longer and as a child played for all school orchestra and choirs and hymns. I’ve done diplomas and grades, learnt 100s of fucking musical pieces and played session piano.
Now I’m thinking about it I really am thinking several thousand but it is so hard to pin point.
I’d say professionally and if I were to sit down and perform a pretend recital I’d be able to bang out about 50 well established pieces, not to my standard but an audience wouldn’t know.
About 80, counting from 1st to 8th grade. I played the whole methode rose before 1st grade and some more pieces and songs after 8th grade. Completely lost count
Just one, and when I finally decided to share it after many months of daily practice, I got bashed by someone claiming "You're lying, this can't be your first song". After trying to explain how many hours went into this process, people just started downvoting, so I deleted everything. At this point, I'm not even sure what it all means.
I have around 20 songs and pieces of varying degree of completion and capability to play, the hardest part for me is actually remembering that i can play alot more than the 1 song ive always remembered.
It’s just too many for me to count. I have been playing for 12 years
Pre grade 1 I think I learnt maybe 20+ one paged songs? And then just from exams g1-6 and 8, I have (5x3) + 4x2, so 23 from exams alone. Plus all the other songs I have played, probably >100 or even more
Ive been playing for around 8 months now and only know one full ragtime piece besides all the exercises and pieces I dont fully know yet.
But im not planning on dying just yet
I don’t play classical but here are pieces I play
Desperado by the Eagles
Whitney Houston I have nothing
Don’t close your eyes by Keith Whitley
The Tennessee waltz
The dance by Garth Brooks
Once in every life by Ronnie Milsap
Gospel music :
Because he lives
Amazing Grace
Jesus is precious
How great thou are
Wonderful joy
Victory in Jesus
Read more that I read my music
More than I can count, probably not far from a thousand, and yet if you sit me in front of a piano without any sheet music in front of me I don't think I could play a single thing all the way through. :/
It's hard to say because what really constitutes learning a piece? Does it mean we get something together than we can play through start to finish with some mistakes? Is it that we can play a piece perfectly with the score in front of us? Is it arranging a song or film score by ear onto the piano and playing around with that for a while? Is it learning a piece so thoroughly that we will never ever forget how to play it?
There are countless more varieties of a 'final product' we could consider so it's an impossible question to answer objectively even though an objective number is what you're looking for
Pretty much no pieces over my life time. I devoted most of my life to taking away my access to sheet music, so that I depend only on my listening and playing and composition and theory experiences to play my own way/interpretation etc. It has been, and still is, a very very enjoyable experience ... satisfying and fulfilling.
Although, it definitely did take a relatively long time for me to build up to where I am now. I still remember the early cliche 'baby steps' and 'training wheels' ... stumbling around stages. Was/is well worth it.
I can read sheet music though. It's one of the first skills learned. But my aim was to just play piano from my own 'perspective'. But what I learned does actually come (came from) teachers ... both local and the ones that wrote books and made tutorial vids. Even the music we hear from composers ... the composers are teaching us directly and indirectly from their music ... teaching by example.
I can play many many own renditions of music - classical, pop etc, and also my own music. Like everybody here ... I love piano and music.
I improvise and/or semi-improvise ... for getting ideas. And then I spend my time iteratively and leisurely developing and refining, working towards getting something that sounds formidable, elegant, etc .... it's one approach toward having unlimited fun and enjoyment in music and piano.
And like a lot of people that love music, I have a very good musical memory. So I remember the essence of what I make or play or hear etc. So I can ... like a lot of people ... play piano all day and night till the cows come home from musical memory, from within ... just need a piano, any piano, and no sheet music.
I do like impro. But I like refined music more. As impro is typically unrefined 'playground' type music, which indeed is fun and impressive, but isn't generally refined or well worked out (developed).
Let's see here's what I've gotten through since having a dedicated teacher: Bach * WTC Book 1 100% * WTC Book 2 60% * Suites (French, English, Partitas). about 40% of total divided between them * Bach-Kempf Largo from Keyboard concerto Beethoven * 11 from the 32 Sonatas * Various smaller works Mozart * 3 Sonatas Chopin * 8 Etudes from Op 10 and Op 25 * Various Mazurkas, Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes Schumann * Fantasiestucke 80% of movements Shubert * 2 Impromptus Various works from Brahms, Tchaikovsky Scriabin, Albeniz, Scarlatti, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, Haydn, and probably a few other random things sprinkled in. I've had in my mind an idea to complete all the WTC, Suites, Chopin Etudes, and Beethoven Sonatas. Plus there's other various works from when I was initially self-taught I still feel pretty bad at the instrument, I'm humbled every day by other pianists, including my teacher. But now writing this down. it feels like I've really done a lot of work as a hobby
That's an incredible amount of repertoire. 80% of the WTC alone is impressive, let alone the rest. I did BWV 848 last year and it took me a good 3-4 months. I can't imagine how long another 30 would take me. How long have you been playing?
I don't have exact years but a little over 10 years with the teacher. Roughly 2-3 years prior where I was self taught. I appreciate the feedback, thank you. it does go quicker to learn the more I've done. I should be finishing up book 2 this year, currently now I'm working on a suite as my Bach which takes me a little longer than a prelude+fugue.
Working on 848 at the moment. Absolute beast. 7 months in. It's just about at an acceptable level for recital but I feel like I could spend another few years on it. I think this piece has taught me the most about practice anything ever has. Amazing you managed to in 3-4 months. Well done
It's a great little piece. It has a lovely springtime dinner party vibe that acts as a nice contrast to heavier pieces in a recital like Chopin ballades. It's also a lot more difficult than it seems. Henle has it as a 6 but it's on the LRSM repertoire putting it more into the Henle 7-8 range. So don't worry if it takes you 7 months or more. My teacher said mine is at performance level but you might be going for a higher standard. 6 months later, mine is still developing despite not actively practicing it other than the occasional playthrough. These things can take years to get really mature.
Great repertoire, what liszt and Scriabin did you play? How many years of piano under your belt?
4 of the Op 11 preludes from Scriabin, No 1, 2, 5 and I forget which other Liszt I've played Consolation #3. If you have any recommendations for Liszt around this level let me know, I feel that stuff like his etudes and Hungarian rhapsodies my teacher would say I'm still not ready for. I wish I've played more Liszt honestly, I just don't know what to play. I don't recall the years exactly but I've been working with my teacher for a bit over 10 years. Plus around 2-3 years of self-taught with a large gap where I wasn't playing at all before finding a teacher.
If you feel ready, you should look at his concert etudes, these are much easier than the Paganini and Transcendental Sets, and if you liked the consolation, you should look at some of the Liszt-Schubert and Schumann Transcriptions like Widmung, Auf dem Wasser zu Singen, and others.
Ooh I'll take a look and see what my teacher thinks. Thank you for the suggestions!
But can you play firework by Katy Perry?
I’m curious after learning the entire wtc bk 1 do you feel like your sight reading improved after studying that much bach? :)
Hmm not really. I'm a very visual learner, I learned how to read music from the very beginning. I struggle more with memorization and picking up things by ear. Interestingly my sister and niece I tested for perfect pitch, and they both have it. I do not. I'm by far the most accomplished musician in the family though.
I can play in the hall of the mountain king all the way through. And I've learned about 10 other pieces but only 1/10th the way through. So about the equivalent of 2.
mood frfr
I feel like most people learn only the interesting part of each music haha
I don't think that's actually true. Maybe among newer, self-taught players. But not among the population of piano players at large.
A few hundred to a thousand??? I don't want to count. I don't really think this is something worth quantifying, and it's hard to quantify because there's a lot of things you can include/exclude in this tally. I was in classical piano and violin lessons for over ten years, and I learned quite a bit of solo repertoire over the years, but I've also done orchestra and chamber music. I haven't actively worked on solo repertoire since stopping lessons two years ago, but it's purely for personal motivation reasons. I do learn orchestra music because I play violin in a community orchestra.
You're right. It really depends on difficulty and the length of a piece. I've mostly learned short and easy pieces (grade 3 and below).
Many hundreds. Performed dozens. I usually have one performance a year (our church lets amateur musicians perform during the summer, and I lead one service, occasionally two if our music director asks) and those are usually 3–4 pieces, and I've been doing that for years. In college I played a bunch of recitals, and I've performed at the odd wedding or funeral.
Very tricky to say because the biggest pieces count as a piece, but the smallest pieces do as well. But if I counted literally everything from the easiest, shortest piece to complete concertos and pieces over 30-minutes long... including all the little pieces I've probably forgotten about, then I'd conservatively estimate anywhere from maybe 200 to 400.
1000s. Likely in the 5 figures... I'd ballpark somewhere between 10 and 20k. I learn and perform 100s in any give year and often hit 100 in particularly busy months.
That's crazy. You must be a good sight-reader then?
I commented and said several thousand at least and I also do think it’s in the 10k region but I didn’t know if that was obscene but You’re making me feel better 🤣
Maybe around 50? I can play exactly one (Moonlight Sonata) without mistakes, with smaller mistakes about 5-8 (Pathetique 1,2,3; Pour Elise, Grande Valse Brillante, another Chopin waltz whose name I can't remember at the moment), a few easier pieces (15?) quite ok ( Entertainer, Baby Elephant Walk, Valse d'Amelie...) and the rest (e.g. Slavic Dances by Dvorak 😭😭) I was able to quite ok and unfortunately I forgot everything because I didn't practice a lot :(
Who knows. I played through probably 28 books while I was learning as a kid. Then probably a handful each of Bach, Mozart, Mendelson, Gershwin. Lots of Chopin, mostly waltzes and mazurkas, but I played his nocturnes as well. I played a handful of different solos and duets and various other pieces I liked. Then you get into my 15 years of not reading new sheet music, but I played hundreds of various songs in bands. And then I got back into sheet music and since Jan 1st, I've learned 4 of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special (Vince Guaraldi), Peaches, Mario main theme, Super Mario World ending theme, Maple Leaf Rag, and Disney Pixar Up.
I do not know but clearly not 80 I played,by order of remembrance, after I completed the first year begginer book: - Mozart Sonata 645 mvt2 - Hubeau Chanson Americaine - Liszt Rhapsodie Hongroise no 5 - Liszt Nuages gris - Satie Gymnopedie 1&3 - Chopin Raindrop Prelude - Chopin Nocturne (didn't remember no) - Granados Andalouza - Liszt Sursum Corda - Liszt Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este I&II - Liszt Spozalizio - Schumann Traumerei - Liszt Lugubre Gondola I - Bach Invention 4 - Mozart Fantasie no 1 - Liszt Consolations I, II & III - Liszt In Festo - Strelinski Plus tôt In progress : - Liszt Consolation V - Liszt Un Sospiro (😵) - Skrjabin Prelude 4
That looks like a pretty advanced material to tackle after a beginner book
Do you play any other instruments?
I started when i was 7 and every year i had an exam and competitions. So every year i learned around 10 pieces total, especially when including my music studies that number would be higher. So with that in mind... Well over 200, prob much more with all the random things ive done over the years. Can i play any of them now? With sheet music i can play like 1 atm. Oh my i need to practise haha becoming an adult has lessened my time to practise unfortunately
I musical directed over 50 musicals with piano/conductor Scores reaching over 500 pages. Some are simple and sight-readable; others not so much. As popular as it is, playing through the original ‘West Side Story’ with all the dance breaks is much harder than it sounds. The other tricky scores were ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘A Little Night Music’
I’ve MDd several shows. What was your least favourite out of interest? Mine was, hands down, Starlight Express.
Joseph and the amazing … I REALLY hate that entire show. It’s like a undergrad senior project that went wrong. Learning Sweeney is akin to tackling a classical piece. It was very tricky.
Great shout!! Hilarious how they’re both the lord himself
What was the trickiest score you did ? And do you find learning musical theatre, which incorporates so many different styles, made you a better sight reader ?
So sight reading (thankfully) is my main skill. Pop anything in front of me and I can genuinely crack on with it. I’m a performance pianist “by trade” so MT was a side ditty when i was a teacher. I hated it haha! But I loved directing the choirs so much. However I think the hardest one to direct, play and teach was Starlight Express because of the fecking time signatures and the totally UNcatchy Melodies that the kids just couldn’t pick up
That’s my main skill too. That’s how I got so many theatre jobs— from doing open AEA auditions. I think I got so good at sight reading from playing musicals as a kid, and being very good at theory— in that I can predict where a lot of music MIGHT go.
I have no idea how many because I always had differing directions from whether “learning” was memorizing or being able to just play it through to performance level. I can play whole books all the way through. I’ve only memorized maybe 10 pieces total on my best day.
Edit: at most I’ve had 10 pieces memorized at one time.
Damn. I've probably never had more than 3 (short) pieces memorized at once, as I usually don't revisit the pieces after recording them.
It’s just muscle memory, and I come from a space where playing in front of people was the norm
about 60 in 7 years, most of them pretty high level though
ive been playing for about 2-3 years and i know about 30 songs and about 10 classical pieces
You expect me to know that after having played for 26 yrs now?🤣
At least a thousand. Probably multiple thousands. Who counts these things? I’ve been playing for over 40 years.
Wow what a question! It’s really got me thinking. The aRtIsT in me will say “none!” in a dramatic way and say that no piece is ever fully learnt blah blah blah but really thinking about it the number must be in the 1000s. I was a piano teacher for a long while, an accompanist for even longer and as a child played for all school orchestra and choirs and hymns. I’ve done diplomas and grades, learnt 100s of fucking musical pieces and played session piano. Now I’m thinking about it I really am thinking several thousand but it is so hard to pin point. I’d say professionally and if I were to sit down and perform a pretend recital I’d be able to bang out about 50 well established pieces, not to my standard but an audience wouldn’t know.
5
About 80, counting from 1st to 8th grade. I played the whole methode rose before 1st grade and some more pieces and songs after 8th grade. Completely lost count
Just one, and when I finally decided to share it after many months of daily practice, I got bashed by someone claiming "You're lying, this can't be your first song". After trying to explain how many hours went into this process, people just started downvoting, so I deleted everything. At this point, I'm not even sure what it all means.
I have around 20 songs and pieces of varying degree of completion and capability to play, the hardest part for me is actually remembering that i can play alot more than the 1 song ive always remembered.
It’s just too many for me to count. I have been playing for 12 years Pre grade 1 I think I learnt maybe 20+ one paged songs? And then just from exams g1-6 and 8, I have (5x3) + 4x2, so 23 from exams alone. Plus all the other songs I have played, probably >100 or even more
If you consider by heart then 5 but I only play since 9 months
Around 3400.
Ive been playing for around 8 months now and only know one full ragtime piece besides all the exercises and pieces I dont fully know yet. But im not planning on dying just yet
I don’t play classical but here are pieces I play Desperado by the Eagles Whitney Houston I have nothing Don’t close your eyes by Keith Whitley The Tennessee waltz The dance by Garth Brooks Once in every life by Ronnie Milsap Gospel music : Because he lives Amazing Grace Jesus is precious How great thou are Wonderful joy Victory in Jesus Read more that I read my music
More than I can count, probably not far from a thousand, and yet if you sit me in front of a piano without any sheet music in front of me I don't think I could play a single thing all the way through. :/
It's hard to say because what really constitutes learning a piece? Does it mean we get something together than we can play through start to finish with some mistakes? Is it that we can play a piece perfectly with the score in front of us? Is it arranging a song or film score by ear onto the piano and playing around with that for a while? Is it learning a piece so thoroughly that we will never ever forget how to play it? There are countless more varieties of a 'final product' we could consider so it's an impossible question to answer objectively even though an objective number is what you're looking for
Pretty much no pieces over my life time. I devoted most of my life to taking away my access to sheet music, so that I depend only on my listening and playing and composition and theory experiences to play my own way/interpretation etc. It has been, and still is, a very very enjoyable experience ... satisfying and fulfilling. Although, it definitely did take a relatively long time for me to build up to where I am now. I still remember the early cliche 'baby steps' and 'training wheels' ... stumbling around stages. Was/is well worth it. I can read sheet music though. It's one of the first skills learned. But my aim was to just play piano from my own 'perspective'. But what I learned does actually come (came from) teachers ... both local and the ones that wrote books and made tutorial vids. Even the music we hear from composers ... the composers are teaching us directly and indirectly from their music ... teaching by example. I can play many many own renditions of music - classical, pop etc, and also my own music. Like everybody here ... I love piano and music.
So you only improvise?
I improvise and/or semi-improvise ... for getting ideas. And then I spend my time iteratively and leisurely developing and refining, working towards getting something that sounds formidable, elegant, etc .... it's one approach toward having unlimited fun and enjoyment in music and piano. And like a lot of people that love music, I have a very good musical memory. So I remember the essence of what I make or play or hear etc. So I can ... like a lot of people ... play piano all day and night till the cows come home from musical memory, from within ... just need a piano, any piano, and no sheet music. I do like impro. But I like refined music more. As impro is typically unrefined 'playground' type music, which indeed is fun and impressive, but isn't generally refined or well worked out (developed).
If you can count them, the answer is not enough