How many pieces to work on?

[brillante]

So far I have:
     3 SAT pieces. Beethoven Sonata, Bach P&F WTC1, and Consolation.
     Schumann Scenes from Childhood.
     Prokofiev Vision Fugitives.
     Beethoven Piano Concerto 1 and Piano Trio Op.11
     Chopin Scherzo 1.
Is this a little too much? If so, how should I organize them? Any suggestions are welcome.

[awesom_o]

Is this a little too much?

Too much for whom? I know many people for whom it would be too much, and I know many people for whom it would not be enough.

How are we supposed to know what you are capable of? This is your first post here, and you have given us no measure of the actual quality of your playing or your work ethic!

 

[j_menz]

     3 SAT pieces. Beethoven Sonata, Bach P&F WTC1, and Consolation.

Which Sonata, which P&F and which Consolation (presumably Liszt's)?

     Schumann Scenes from Childhood.
     Prokofiev Vision Fugitives.

The full sets or a selection?

Is this a little too much? If so, how should I organize them? Any suggestions are welcome.

If you don't know how to organise them, it's probably too much. Or you aren't good at organising. How mush time can you devote to practice? What else have you played - ie are any of them a real challenge and if so which? Why are you doing these particular pieces?

[brillante]

Well I have been playing for 7 years now. Recently I have completed:
     Bach French Suite No.5
     Beethoven Sonata Op.10 No.1
     Moszkowski Etude Op.72 No.2
     Tchaikovsky Seasons "June"
     Haydn Sonata in C major. The hard one with the staccato intro.
     etc.
I have made a big jump in repertoire and I practice about 2-3 hours a day.
     3 SAT pieces. Beethoven Sonata Op.2 No.3 Mvt.1, Bach P&F #5 WTC1, and Consolation 3.
     Schumann Scenes from Childhood. Eventually the whole set.
     Prokofiev Vision Fugitives. A Majority if not all.
     Beethoven Piano Concerto 1 and Piano Trio Op.11...eventually.
     Chopin Scherzo 1.

My SAT pieces need to be done by spring and the other do not have deadlines.

I believe the biggest challenge in this repertoire is the Beethoven Sonata which is almost polished and the Chopin Scherzo which is almost memorized.

My main question is, would it be beneficial to learn all this at once or maybe wait until I have more pieces polished.

I hope I have cleared up a little bit and explained more of myself.

[j_menz]

Concentrate on your SAT pieces. Do enough on them that they will be there when you need them, but not so much more than that that they will be stale.

Then take the others at your leisure. Or others as well. Not everything needs to be polished, either. That final phase is time consuming - it needs to be done for your SAT pieces, and should be done for some pieces anyway (including all you may intend performing) - but that extra effort is time that may be better spent on expanding your horizons.

[brillante]

Thanks, this really helps me.

[garrickthegreat]

I say, learn as much as you can, because once you learn it once it's easier to pick it up again more seriously in the future.

[stevensk]

I always have six to eight pieces that I work on. Three to four of them is almost ready and the other are newies. After a while I pic up three more

[bonesquirrel]

Too much for whom? I know many people for whom it would be too much, and I know many people for whom it would not be enough.

How are we supposed to know what you are capable of? This is your first post here, and you have given us no measure of the actual quality of your playing or your work ethic!

 

I just wanted to simply suggest, Mr Whom, that I believe you could technically (at least at some level) know what he is capable of (playing ability) by knowing the difficulty of the pieces he has listed. I also find this a weird question in general, since nobody can tell you what is "too much". You decide what is too much when you get to the point where you tell yourself "this is too much". When I want to know if I can learn something, I attempt to learn it, then I either learn it or I don't. I don't ask people what I'm capable of, you know what your capable of more than anyone else, unless your ego is really bad. But if your ego is really that bad I don't think you would be attempting any more then 1 piece at a time.