Que jouer après Etude Op.8 No.11 in B-flat minor ?

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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.2 in C major

Sergei Rachmaninoff

75/100 +5 pts 7-14 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Trilles — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Gentle

Etude in E-flat major Op.10 No.11

Frédéric Chopin

75/100 +5 pts 7-14 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Gentle

Etude f minor op. 42 no. 7

Alexander Scriabin

74/100 +4 pts 7-14 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Indépendance des mains and Demi-pédale — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Gentle

Etude D flat major op. 42 no. 1

Alexander Scriabin

74/100 +4 pts 7-14 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Demi-pédale and Connaissance des formes — the pedal is set by ear, note by note: misjudged, it blurs the harmony instead of joining it.

Gentle

Etude-Tableau Op.39 No.5 in E-flat minor

Sergei Rachmaninoff

77/100 +7 pts 7-14 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Study no. 23: Allegro, etude

Charles Ives

80/100 +10 pts 16-32 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8). New compared with the previous piece: Style moderne et contemporain and Gammes et arpèges — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Etude 14a, for player piano, "Coloana färä stârsit"

György Ligeti

80/100 +10 pts 16-32 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8). 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.

Balanced

Étude in C major Op.10 No.1

Frédéric Chopin

80/100 +10 pts 14-28 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Grands accords et extensions — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Etude E flat major op. 42 no. 8

Alexander Scriabin

83/100 +13 pts 16-32 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8). The skill that will carry the work: Passages rapides — 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

Etudes-tableaux, op. 39

Sergei Rachmaninoff

88/100 +18 pts 32-64 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Doubles notes — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

3 Studies, op. 18, BB81, Sz.72

Béla Bartók

90/100 +20 pts 32-64 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Style moderne et contemporain and Doubles notes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Challenge

Études-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 5

Rachmaninoff

85/100 +15 pts 32-64 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Great repertoire (diploma level, beyond grade 8) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Octaves — 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

Toccata no. 1 in A minor

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

70/100 same level 5-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Staccato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Praeludium Toccata in A minor

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

70/100 same level 5-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Same level

Toccata in F

Girolamo Frescobaldi

70/100 same level 5-8 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Staccato and Style baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

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