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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

5. Allegro moderato

Béla Bartók

51/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 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

Perpetuum mobile

Béla Bartók

52/100 +5 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Écossaise No. 3, Op. posth. 72, No. 3/c

Frédéric Chopin

52/100 +6 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Rythmes pointés and Passages rapides — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Gentle

Sonata in C major K.330 (I)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

52/100 +6 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). 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.

Gentle

Piano Sonata No. 11

Mozart

50/100 +4 pts 5-10 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style classique and Passages rapides — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

No.141 — Subject and Reflection

Béla Bartók

57/100 +11 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 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

Piano Sonata E major op. 14,1

Ludwig van Beethoven

58/100 +12 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Indépendance des mains and Demi-pédale — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Chords Together and Opposed

Béla Bartók

56/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Indépendance des mains — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

La finta giardiniera

Mozart

55/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style classique and Passages rapides — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Sonata in B-flat major K.333

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

66/100 +20 pts 24-48 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

No.142 — From the Diary of a Fly

Béla Bartók

66/100 +20 pts 24-48 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Advanced (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Syncopes and Staccato — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Challenge

II. Molto capriccioso

Béla Bartók

72/100 +26 pts 28-56 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

Next piece in the same collection, Advanced (around grade 8 ABRSM/RCM): the order its editor chose, a progression already tested. New compared with the previous piece: Rythmes pointés and Gammes et arpèges — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

No.139 — March

Béla Bartók

45/100 -1 pts 3-4 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Intermediate (around grade 5 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

Syncopation (3)

Béla Bartók

45/100 -1 pts 3-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: Syncopes and Indépendance des mains — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

Piano Sonata G major K. 283 (189h)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

44/100 -2 pts 3-4 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, right at the edge of Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM): different ground, same level. What changes is the skill in play: Connaissance des formes and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

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.