Chopin's Prelude op.28 n.4 - advice, please

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Hi,

I'm a beginner (less than a month with my piano), and I don't have a teacher (can't have one right now for several reasons).

I'm doing Suzuki book 1 and Czerny op. 599l as well as some Hanon exercises.

I was searching this forum for suggestions of easy pieces. Somebody suggested this prelude and I've taken a look. I fell in love with it and it didn't seem too difficult (the notes, because interpretation's something else!) and I got started right away.

I found really nice the fact that it's easy to sight read (I know a bit of music theory, because I study other instruments - classical guitar and violin), and sight reading I can "play" half of it already. I don't look at my hands and I try to listen to what I'm doing. Playing the notes is easy. However...

I know there's more to music than playing the notes...

I don't want to butcher the piece. I know, being a beginner, I'll do it, anyway, but I want to limit the damage.

So, would you please help me? I'm trying my best to respect the written music (all the details on the score) and I've been listening to it a lot to try and grasp the "music behind the notes". I'm paying attention to phrasing, listening to what I'm playing. But if you'd give me some tips, things a beginner wouldn't  think of, wouldn't even see, I'd be most grateful.

How to do justice to this piece?

Some of you'll certainly feel offended I've even dared to think I could play it. If you feel this way, would you please suggest something else? Real music, only, please.

Thank you very much for any help at all.

[healdie]

what do you define as real music?

accorinding to Wikipedia music is an art form whose mediam is sound organised in time so that is quite a bit of stuff so i would like to hear your definition of real music

[csharp_minor]

what do you define as real music?

I think He / she means pieces that aren’t arrangements, or watered down pieces.

Hi End,

Can't really help you with the E minor prelude, I tried it myself bar 16 is hard . As for other pieces look for Schirmer Performance Editions. They are books about a composer such as Beethoven that have a selection of easy pieces you can learn that I don't think have been arranged. I use these books now instead of method books, it comes with a cd too so you can hear the piece.   

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healdie:

you're right , I wasn't clear at all. But csharp_minor got it. What I'm looking for is music that's not a simplified version of the original. Music as the composer wrote it.

csharp_minor:

thank you for your suggestion of material. I'll see if I can find it to have a look (don't want to buy on the net and end up with something I won't use).