Choosing pieces

[mackenzie]

Hi, I'm 15 years old and I'm completely new to this forum. I've been playing piano for about a year and a half. I study music in school and I'm doing exams next June (Junior Cert exams) and 25% of the music exam is practical and basically I don't have a clue what pieces I'm going to do for this and I want to be well-prepared for it so I do well in it. But the problem is, I'm only going onto Grade 4 and I just really need to find a couple of pieces that sound impressive but aren't unreasonably difficult. I have downloaded pieces from the internet and printed them out and tried playing them but I feel that every piece I try to play is a lot harder to play than it sounds. My piano teacher doesn't teach during the summer holidays so I won't have lessons again until September. I really need to start making some serious progress at piano so I can achieve a good grade out of this exam in June. If anyone has some words of advise or if you direct me to a good, suitable piano piece, it would be great. Basically, I have to play two piano pieces for an examiner and I'm really not ready for it.  It's really important to me that I do well in this exam but I just can't find the right pieces and any pieces that I want to play I can't because they're too advanced.   

[monkeyyy]

Maybe "bread and butter" by Mozart  combined with a Burgmuller etude (op.100) for example no. 17 (The chatterbox)

[concerto_love]

errnn... how about clementi sonatina? handel's sarabande and canon in d..?

[mackenzie]

errnn... how about clementi sonatina? handel's sarabande and canon in d..?

Good advice on the sonatina actually. 

[xpjamiexd]

Funny actually because this is the exact same problem i've had. I'm doing my grade 4 to. Well I personally found Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to be a really nice song to play that wasn't to difficult and Chopin's Prelude No. 14 in Db Major (I think) the "raindrop" is also a beautiful song and Chopin's Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 4. Though if you are playing at grade 4 you might want to try possibly Bach's Prelude in F or his C major Prelude (BWV 846). Hope that helps

[beethoven_fan]

Try Beethoven's sonata no. 20, opus 49 no. 2. Both mouvements are around grade 4. I think you could manage it. Not a great Beethoven sonata, but a still lovely piece, very charming, full of joy. Good luck.

[nightlordq]

Burgmüller's pieces are pretty good for noobs, like me  try Trotting, opus 100.
And how did u get to Grade 4 so fast in 1 and a half years?
It takes time to learn, a quick learner takes at least 6-12 months to pass a grade.