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Choose your level of commitment: consolidate, move up a tier or prepare a challenge. The top-ranked cards combine difficulty, risk, shared skills and confidence.

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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Fuga

Girolamo Frescobaldi

70/100 +6 pts 7-14 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: Ornements baroque and Polyphonie à trois voix ou plus — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Gentle

Fugue no. 2 en Do Mineur, BWV.871

Johann Sebastian Bach

70/100 +6 pts 7-14 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: Ornements baroque and Indépendance des mains — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Gentle

Sonata in D major, K.492, L.14

Domenico Scarlatti

70/100 +6 pts 7-14 weeks

partial transfer 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: Connaissance des formes and Ornements baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Sonata in C major, K.423, L.102

Domenico Scarlatti

71/100 +7 pts 7-14 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Gentle

Fugue no. 11 en Fa Majeur, BWV.880

Johann Sebastian Bach

67/100 +3 pts 6-12 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Fantasy and Sonata c minor K. 475/457

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

73/100 +9 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). The skill that will carry the work: Analyse harmonique — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Fugue no. 5 en Ré Majeur, BWV.874

Johann Sebastian Bach

73/100 +9 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: Ornements baroque and Indépendance des mains — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Balanced

Sonata in F major, K.483, L.472

Domenico Scarlatti

73/100 +9 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: Connaissance des formes and Ornements baroque — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Fugue in D minor, BWV.948

Johann Sebastian Bach

72/100 +8 pts 14-28 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Sonata Op.57 (Appassionata)

Ludwig van Beethoven

81/100 +17 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: Trilles and Connaissance des formes — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV.903

Johann Sebastian Bach

80/100 +16 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: Croisements de mains and Ornements baroque — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Challenge

Partita no. 6 in E minor, BWV.830

Johann Sebastian Bach

80/100 +16 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: Ornements baroque and Connaissance des formes — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

Sonata in B-flat major K.333

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

66/100 +2 pts 4-7 weeks

partial transfer 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.

Same level

French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV.816

Johann Sebastian Bach

66/100 +2 pts 4-7 weeks

partial transfer 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: Ornements baroque and Connaissance des formes — ornaments must be secure before the piece goes up to tempo, otherwise they break the line instead of decorating it.

Same level

Prelude and Fugue No.21 in B-flat major BWV 866

Johann Sebastian Bach

62/100 -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: Connaissance des formes and Passages rapides — 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.