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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Herbst

Franz Schubert

50/100 +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: Caractère et style — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Nocturne g minor op. 37,1

Frédéric Chopin

52/100 +7 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Phrasé — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Intermezzo a minor op. 76,7

Johannes Brahms

52/100 +7 pts 5-10 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

March of the Bluebirds

Johann Sebastian Bach

48/100 +3 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Phrasé — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Gentle

Heliopolis II

Franz Schubert

48/100 +3 pts 4-8 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 5 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 step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Piano Variations on the Hymn "Gott erhalte" from the Kaiserquartett Hob. III:77 G major

Franz Joseph Haydn

55/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Phrasé — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Balanced

Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D 583

Franz Schubert

55/100 +10 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

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

Der Gott und die Bajadere

Franz Schubert

54/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

Balanced

Andantino, B.117

Frédéric Chopin

54/100 +9 pts 10-20 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Contrôle du toucher — what matters is quality of attack and evenness of tone, not speed.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Piano Sonata D flat major D 567

Franz Schubert

62/100 +17 pts 24-48 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. 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.

Challenge

Rêverie L.68

Claude Debussy

61/100 +16 pts 24-48 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Intermediate (around grade 7 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Voix chantante — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Challenge

Piano Sonata A flat major D 557

Franz Schubert

60/100 +15 pts 24-48 weeks

new reflexes moderate risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Analyse harmonique and Style classique — 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

Piano Sonata G major K. 283 (189h)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

44/100 -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: Connaissance des formes and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

36 Originaltänze, D.365, op. 9

Franz Schubert

42/100 -3 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. 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

Nacht und Träume

Franz Schubert

42/100 -3 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: Voix chantante and Mémorisation — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

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.