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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Etude D flat major KK IIb, 3,3

Frédéric Chopin

68/100 +5 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Gentle

Etude f minor KK IIb, 3,1

Frédéric Chopin

67/100 +4 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Liebesträum No.3

Franz Liszt

69/100 +6 pts 6-12 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante and Octaves — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

3. Allegro (concert version)

Béla Bartók

67/100 +4 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 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.

Gentle

Aux Cyprès de la Villa d'Este 1

Franz Liszt

66/100 +3 pts 6-12 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Ornements romantiques — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Variations op. 27

Evgeny Kissin

75/100 +12 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into 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

Etude A flat major KK IIb, 3,2

Frédéric Chopin

75/100 +12 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Balanced

Liebesträum No.3 in A-flat major S.541

Franz Liszt

75/100 +12 pts 14-28 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante and Octaves — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Balanced

Dance of the Gnomes

Franz Liszt

76/100 +13 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C-sharp minor S.244

Franz Liszt

80/100 +17 pts 28-56 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Rythmes pointés and Octaves — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Challenge

Hungarian Rhapsody no. 8

Franz Liszt

80/100 +17 pts 28-56 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. The skill that will carry the work: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Challenge

Ballade No.2 in F major Op.38

Frédéric Chopin

79/100 +16 pts 28-56 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Octaves — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Hungarian Rhapsody no. 3

Franz Liszt

64/100 +1 pts 4-7 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. 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

Hungarian Rhapsody no. 5

Franz Liszt

65/100 +2 pts 4-7 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 7 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

Sonata in B-flat major K.333

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

66/100 +3 pts 4-7 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. 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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