Need advice in choosing my next piece

[rtrudell]

Hello good folks of PianoStreet.com forums,

I have never posted on here before and I just want to say that I am excited that I have finally found a forum where people take music and piano seriously!

I started playing November 2009 (almost 4 years ago next Sunday) and in that time I have learned in this order:

* Moonlight Sonata
* Fur Elise
* Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 #4  

* 'Raindrops' by Chopin
* Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 #2  

* Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 #3  

* Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca
and of course, The Bad Touch by the Bloodhound Gang for parties haha.

This doesn't include roughly a dozen or more pieces that I have composed myself.

Having a deep understanding of the many wonderful piano pieces in existence is not a strength of mine.  My natural strengths as a player are memorization skills (never need to look at the sheet music once I have learned a piece) and being able to do intricate fast runs with my right hand.  My weaknesses are that I am a lousy sight-reader (I am hopelessly unable to sight-read with any level of competency, even in the simplest of pieces), playing too many chord-dominated pieces, and that I try and use different fingerings than what the piece denotes.

Anyways, I appreciate the time for anyone that has made it this far in my post, and I would love to hear what you think might be some interesting pieces for me to try playing.

[j_menz]

I'm guessing you aren't actually Zimmerman, so it would be more useful if the YT links you posted were of you playing.

Ideas to start on, though:

Bach - 2 Part Inventions
Debussy - one of the Arabesques or a Prelude or two
Shostakovitch - Three Fantastic Dances

[rtrudell]

I'm guessing you aren't actually Zimmerman, so it would be more useful if the YT links you posted were of you playing.

Ideas to start on, though:

Bach - 2 Part Inventions
Debussy - one of the Arabesques or a Prelude or two
Shostakovitch - Three Fantastic Dances

Thank you for replying!  I will give all of these a listen.  And no, I am not Zimmerman - why would you think that?

[j_menz]

And no, I am not Zimmerman - why would you think that?

I didn't, but the YouTube links you posted were of him playing. I was expecting to see you playing, given that Schubert's Op 90 Impromptus are already pretty well known.