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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Meditation, 'Razdumye', for piano

Modest Mussorgsky

45/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Gentle

Jig, for piano, H.179

Gustav Holst

45/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Gentle

Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin

45/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Duma on a theme of V. A. Loginov, for piano

Modest Mussorgsky

45/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Balance mains — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Gentle

Bagatelles, op. 119

Ludwig van Beethoven

46/100 +6 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Technique générale — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Souvenir de Bohême en forme de polkas, Book 1, JB 1:76, op. 12

Bedrich Smetana

50/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Sonata in C major, for piano 4-hands

Modest Mussorgsky

50/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Demi-pédale — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Waldszenen, op. 82

Robert Schumann

49/100 +9 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Nuances — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Balanced

Adagio in G major, D.178

Franz Schubert

48/100 +8 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Legato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35

Frédéric Chopin

59/100 +19 pts 20-40 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Mazurkas, op. 67

Frédéric Chopin

56/100 +16 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Indépendance des mains — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Piano Sonata no. 10 in G major, op. 14 no. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven

55/100 +15 pts 20-40 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Childhood Memories

Modest Mussorgsky

40/100 same level 3-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Rythme général — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

Jeux d'enfants-les quatre coins, for piano

Modest Mussorgsky

40/100 same level 3-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Doubles notes — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Variations on a Swiss Air, WoO 64

Ludwig van Beethoven

39/100 -1 pts 2-3 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

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