Learn the next pieces for April

[faa2010]

Hello,

I am going to prepare some pieces for next April.  Some of them I already started them, others not yet, and I need some requests in relation to have more flow. These are the pieces I am going to present:

- Bach Inventions (1 and 4)
- Mozart K545
- Beethoven Sonata op 49 no 1
- Chopin (I don't know which one could be)
- Debussy (Claire de Lune)
- Intermezzo Manuel M Ponce

I still don't know which piece of Chopin I can play, but it should be around the same level of Mozart K545 and Beethoven's Sonata.

Bach's Inventions, Claire de Lune and the Intermezzo have been started and I can play them but I need to improve them related to tempo and flow.

And Beethoven's Sonata is difficult to memorize.

Can you give me some tips to improve?, some exercises I can do?

Do you know also some not-so-bored exercises to get used to the metronome?

I hope I can get them prepared for April.

[onwan]

What about chopin's nocturne or some of his dances-mazurkas or walters?
In each of this sets are easy peaces in your level. I guess that the best choices some of these -Nocturne Op.9 no.2, Waltz Op.69 no.2 or mazurkas Op.6.

[slane]

How about the Raindrop prelude? Too trite? op28 #15.

Or Mazurkas op7 #2, OP 63 #2. Those should be about the same level as the beethoven.

And for the metronome ... my teacher has me play variations on pieces with regular patterns, so 4 semiquavers becomes a quaver + triplet of semiquavers ... I need a diagram.
Or he makes me play two quavers as a dotted quaver and a semi quaver. The idea is not to get bored but also he claims, that it increases speed because over the triplet you are playing 3x faster than the quaver.

For the K545 you might want to watch Benjamin Zander demonstrate how to play is with one buttock.
No seriously .. this is a lovely presentation about the popularity of classical music.
https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html

[faa2010]

Thanks for your suggestions. I have played the Prelude "Raindrops", but I will have to work in the piece again.

What I am looking by doing this exam and entering to the school is to improve my technique and also my musical knowledge (theory-also applied to practice, history, etc)

It can be cool if I become a professional pianist in the process. I don't know if I live up to the school expectations, but I want to give it a try.

The problem is that I need guidance, but I haven't found the "right" person who can coach me.  The teachers of the school are not allowed to help, and I don't know anyone who studies at the school or knows how is the exam and what skills and abilities are the judges looking for.

I really want to prepare in the correct way, but the school will only give a orientational talk in February and March, few months before the audition!!!!!

I am really scared, because at that moment I won't have enough time to prepare myself in the correct way if I wait to the talk.