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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Study no. 18

Charles Ives

72/100 +4 pts 7-14 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style moderne et contemporain and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Étude in C minor Op.10 No.12 (Revolutionary)

Frédéric Chopin

74/100 +6 pts 7-14 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

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

Gentle

Study no. 8

Charles Ives

74/100 +6 pts 7-14 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style moderne et contemporain and Trilles — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Czerny Étude Op.740 No.40

Carl Czerny

74/100 +6 pts 7-14 weeks

close skills low risk fair confidence

A short step up, staying in Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Gammes et arpèges — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Gentle

Etude A flat major KK IIb, 3,2

Frédéric Chopin

75/100 +7 pts 7-14 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

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

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

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

György Ligeti

80/100 +12 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: Indépendance des mains — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

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

Sergei Rachmaninoff

77/100 +9 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real 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.

Balanced

Etude in F minor Op.25 No.2

Frédéric Chopin

76/100 +8 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Etude in C-sharp minor Op.25 No.7

Frédéric Chopin

76/100 +8 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

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

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Concert Etudes on Caprices by Paganini, op. 10

Robert Schumann

84/100 +16 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: Octaves — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Symphonic Études Op.13

Robert Schumann

83/100 +15 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: Octaves and Connaissance des formes — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Etudes-tableaux, op. 39

Sergei Rachmaninoff

88/100 +21 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. 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.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Valse-Scherzo op. 34

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

69/100 +1 pts 4-7 weeks

new reflexes 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

No.145 — Chromatic Invention (1)

Béla Bartók

66/100 -2 pts 4-7 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: Style baroque and Indépendance des mains — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV.565

Johann Sebastian Bach

65/100 -2 pts 4-7 weeks

new reflexes 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 Analyse harmonique — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

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