dont know what to do

[hunterj]

i have played piano for 8 months now and practice about 3 hours a day.

i have been excelling tremendously fast, and my current repetoire consists of bach preludes, beethoven, some scarlatti, and some handel.

mostly beethoven.

i want to start playing harder music, but i dont know where to start.

an example: fur elise is to easy, pathetique is too hard.

i just want some challenging music thats harder than what im used to, but not impossibble

[cfortunato]

Do you mean the second movement of the Pathetique?

Is the middle of Fur Elise too easy?  The really fast bridge?

Have you tried Beethoven's 20th Sonata (in G; Opus 49 No. 2)?

How about Mozart's Facile Sonata in C?

Or Schumann's Album for the Young or some stuff from Kinderszenen?

When I am not sure what to play next, I get several books that are about the right difficulty, and pick pieces at random, using the computer.  I do the random piece for a half and hour, and then pick another.  Within a few days, I always find a couple that "click."

By the way, 8 months sounds to me like astonishingly fast progress.

[hunterj]

thanks very much, i will look into those when i get a chance.

for pathetique i worked on mainly the second movement, but never finished it.

the problem is for me, if i dont particularly like a song, i sit down and teach myself to play.

the reason i have exceled so quickly is because when i hear a song i love, i practice untill i learn it, i usually wont leave the piano except to eat and sleep.

ha, the first song i learned was solfegettio by CPE Bach, i like music like that, but cant find anything similiar.

i have tried some chopin pieces, but those are way to hard for me as of now.

THANKS!