repertoir grade 3- adult beginner

[haflinger99]

Maybye could somebody help me?
Am an adult beginner (38 year old- mistreating the piano for 18 months) and am looking for recomandations what to play next. During the last months I have "played" Schumann: Album für die Jugend: Melodie, Wilde Reiter, Kleine Studie, Siziliana, Fröhlicher Landmann (I have to admit: I loved it).
Bach: Prelude in C, Minuet in G (didnt like it very much), Musette, Minuet in G No 7
Beethoven Sonatina in G (my favorit!)
Now I dont know what to play next. I dont want to have a project too difficult that takes me months to achive but on the other hand I want to improve and finally I want to play really nice music.
Maybye someone can give me a tip?

[rosana]

Try to do a search using appropriate keywords. Meanwhile check these link, provided in a post by Bernhard.

Good luck!



2. Choose a repertory that you love and that is within your ability to master.

Have a look here for some ideas:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2958.msg25879.html#msg25879
(Easiest Chopin pieces – grades 4-5-6)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1769.msg13830.html#msg13830
(The easier Debussy pieces)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1834.msg13883.html#msg13883
(suggestions for some beginner pieces)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1970.msg15762.html#msg15762
(easy sonatas)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2147.msg18098.html#msg18098
(Easiest piano piece ever written)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2314.msg19869.html#msg19869
(Schumann’s Album for the young)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2340.msg20224.html#msg20224
(Building your piano foundations – suggestions for a progressive repertory)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2562.msg22127.html#msg22127
(Suggestions for repertory for someone who has been playing for a year)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2851.msg24984.html#msg24984
(Introduction to romantic pieces – how technique is specific to pieces)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3721.msg33399.html#msg33399
(grade 4 – 6 repertory)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4094.msg38101.html#msg38101
(Liszt easy pieces)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4140.msg38111.html#msg38111
(True repertory for total beginners)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4238.msg39061.html#msg39061
(easy show off pieces)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4371.msg40871.html#msg40871
(Mendelssohn favourites)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4416.msg41105.html#msg41105
(nice slow romantic piece for beginner)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4737.msg44794.html#msg44794
(Jacques Duphly)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5063.msg49589.html#msg49589
(Albums for the young)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2357.msg56150.html#msg56150
(Joe Hisaishi sheet music)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,7008.msg80656.html#msg80656
(Beautiful music that is not hard to play)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,8368.0.html
(Victor Carbajo)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,9269.msg94090.html#msg94090
(melodic studies)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2339.msg20064.html#msg20064
(favourite Scarlatti sonatas).

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,3865.msg34994.html#msg34994
(Schumann’s music – Album baltter and bunte blatter)

[ptmidwest]

Rosana's post led me to this link, cited by bernhard, but it doesn't work.  Would anyone know how to access this thread? 

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1075165020

Thank you, you wonderful brilliant forum people. 

[stormx]

Chopin waltz in A minor Op. Posth. is very nice. It is graded as 4/5, but looking at what you have already played, it is definitely at your reach (i know because i am almost at your level, and i am learning it right now).

You can download the score from the net, and there are many posts about this piece on this forum (the easiest Chopin piece, along with a couple of preludes !!). There is also an excellent post by Bernhard explaining in detail how to study the most difficult bar of the piece.


Good luck !!

[rosana]

Rosana's post led me to this link, cited by bernhard, but it doesn't work. Would anyone know how to access this thread?

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1075165020

I think that these kinds of links that have yabb/YaBB.cgi are from the old pianoforum (before my time). They never work, unfortunately.  I don't know if there is a different way to get to them.

[bernhard]

Rosana's post led me to this link, cited by bernhard, but it doesn't work.  Would anyone know how to access this thread? 

https://www.pianoforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=teac;action=display;num=1075165020

Thank you, you wonderful brilliant forum people. 

Yes, this is from the old days of Pianoforum. When they changed the software all the addresses stopped working. But it is still there. If you can give a clue what it is all about I will try to find it for you.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[haflinger99]

Hi!
Thank you very much for your many!!! tips.
I think I will have a try with Chopin ( have not played anything of Chopin. Gives me a bit of challenge)
Nice to see how much effort you use to help me.
Thanks again!

[alzado]

As an adult learner, you may be in a position to do a little research. I recommend a little self-help on this one.  Suggestions you get from this posting might ALSO be useful.  I do not intend these remarks in any spirit of criticism.

But sometimes I think we can all be too passive.  I see this on the Piano Forum all the time.  Students are asking for what they could easily do themselves.

Look through displays of sheet music at the music store.  Research your favorite composer's piano output.  Consider some graded books other than what your teacher recommends.  The Bastien Christmas books are great-- and some are very easy!

As to follow up my point of students being very passive and too easily led, how about the people who keep writing to the forum asking that the difficulty of a group of pieces be ranked?

Really, if people have been playing for some time, can't they just page through the music and figure out how hard it is?  If someone were to give me three pieces, I could look through the music and tell you very readily what pieces would be easy or hard FOR ME.   Or do I have some miraculous ability some people lack?

To answer your question more specifically --  For a couple of easy classical pieces you could consider at your level, consider the John W. Schaum arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon [actually transcribed into "C"], or Ravel's 1913 "Prelude," which is available on the internet and is only one page long.   Satie also has some very easy pieces, including the triptych of children's pieces for "Ko-Kou."

[allthumbs]

I was looking through the RCM Grade 3 books I have.

Try these pieces

Arabesque, Op.100, No.2 - Burgmüller
Musette in D major, BWV Anh.126 - Bach
Gavotte in G major, HWV491 - Handel
The Song of Twilight - Nakada
The Sleeping Dragon - Telfer

Cheers

allthumbs