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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Binks's Waltz

Scott Joplin

40/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Rythme général — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Gentle

Pleasant Moments Ragtime Waltz

Scott Joplin

40/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Polka in F sharp minor

Mily Balakirev

40/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 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.

Gentle

Polka in A flat major, TN ii/18

Sergei Rachmaninoff

40/100 +5 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 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.

Gentle

Ecossaises, WoO 83

Ludwig van Beethoven

40/100 +5 pts 3-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Jig, for piano, H.179

Gustav Holst

45/100 +10 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). New compared with the previous piece: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Balbina Valverde, polka, for piano

Isaac Albéniz

45/100 +10 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Tarantella in D

Alexander Borodin

45/100 +10 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 skill that will carry the work: Rythme général — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Balanced

12 Valses nobles, D.969, op. 77

Franz Schubert

43/100 +8 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

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

Bedrich Smetana

50/100 +15 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills moderate 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: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Polka italienne, for piano 4-Hands in E flat minor/E flat major, TN ii/21

Sergei Rachmaninoff

50/100 +15 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. 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.

Challenge

Prelude a la polka de Borodine, S.207a

Franz Liszt

50/100 +15 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. 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.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Minuet and Trio in A minor, D.277a

Franz Schubert

35/100 same level 2-3 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. 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.

Same level

Allemande in A major, WoO 81

Ludwig van Beethoven

37/100 +2 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: Style baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

Waltz in B minor Op.69 No.2

Frédéric Chopin

33/100 -2 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: Indépendance des mains — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Progressions computed from difficulty, skill overlap and style between works. A What do we play next? recommendation should remain a pedagogical starting point, not an automatic prescription.