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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Minuets, K.315a

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

27/100 +4 pts 2-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Minuet from French Suite E flat major BWV 815a

Johann Sebastian Bach

29/100 +7 pts 2-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Elementary (around grade 3 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

Second Minuet from French Suite c minor BWV 813a

Johann Sebastian Bach

29/100 +7 pts 2-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Gentle

In Transylvanian Style

Béla Bartók

26/100 +3 pts 2-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Caractère et style — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Minuet C major K. 61gII

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

25/100 +3 pts 2-4 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up — but it is the one that moves you into Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Lecture à vue — keep it up with daily reading of easy pieces rather than grinding one passage.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Stumblings

Béla Bartók

33/100 +11 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Caractère et style — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Waltz in B minor Op.69 No.2

Frédéric Chopin

33/100 +10 pts 6-12 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Elementary (around grade 4 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.

Balanced

Wandering

Béla Bartók

34/100 +12 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Minuet in D major, K.355

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

35/100 +13 pts 6-12 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up: this piece moves you into Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Connaissance des formes and Style classique — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Romanian Polka BB 68,5

Béla Bartók

39/100 +17 pts 12-24 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Rythme général — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Challenge

30 Minuets with Trios, D.41

Franz Schubert

37/100 +15 pts 12-24 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. The skill that will carry the work: Caractère et style — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Challenge

Waves

Béla Bartók

19/100 -3 pts 8-16 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Next piece in the same collection, Beginner (around grade 2 ABRSM/RCM): the order its editor chose, a progression already tested. New compared with the previous piece: Staccato — 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

Waltz Op.39 No.8

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

23/100 +1 pts 1-2 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Beginner (around grade 2 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Rythme général — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

Waltz Op.39 No.2

Johannes Brahms

21/100 -2 pts 1-2 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Beginner (around grade 2 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Tempo rubato — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

Same level

Mazurka Op.39 No.10

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

20/100 -2 pts 1-2 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Beginner (around grade 2 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Rythmes pointés and Staccato — the pitfall is the pulse drifting as soon as the writing thickens: subdivide with the metronome.

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.