If you can learn one easy piece every day for the next three years, that's over 1000 pieces. If you start small with Bach and play his easiest compositions and

If you can learn one easy piece every day for the next three years, that's over 1000 pieces. If you start small with Bach and play his easiest compositions and play even 1 page per day, in not time flat you'll be playing the entire WTC or art of the Fugue. Obviously, this advice does not suit raw beginners but the "advanced" players I hear struggling with Beethoven and sounding bad, this is exactly the advice I'd give. I'd tell them to play all the easiest Beethoven pieces, pick lots of Haydn. Maybe bring a handfull of these pieces to performance quality but to absolutely be able to play them ALL at least acceptably. Struggling is a bad policy. It leads to stiff unnatural technique. Also, things like trills don't need to be fast. Play trills musically. leave ornaments out the first day when playing a new piece. Add a few in at a time. Make everything sing and dance at the piano. You should NOT be struggling too hard on anything. Also, I can play all 32 Beethoven sonatas but I haven't played op 106 or op 111 in front of an audience. It isn't necessary to do so. I play all the Chopin etudes... at home for myself, to build my chops. It isn't spectacular, but I play them pretty good. Save your best for audiences and only things that are very comfortable. Scarlatti composed 555 sonatas. There is more than enough there to keep me busy and you should you take up my "method".