Piano Forum

If you didnt learn to read sheets until last year, it will be a bit difficult even if you have the technique to play harder pieces, but I think that if you've been playing piano for 9 years, you'll make it work out with some effort. You have to take care of the technique, the phrasing and expresion while playing. The first step to learn every piece, is to learn to play it mechanically, and after that, the expression, the sound, the colours will flourish ! Repeating and repeating is the key, but dont over effort your hands, you can injure yourself. You'll find reading sheets easier and easier in time, as long as you practice it continuely.

There are many pieces you can start, from many composers, maybe if you give us some more information, like if you want any specific composer, style...

I'll try to give you some according to your reading leveel :

 - Enrique Granados ( Spanish composer ) - Oriental dance ( Spanish dance nº2 )


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It is an easy piece to read and learn. The only difficult of this piece may be those 3-4 trills on the right hand, and the expression. It's very beautiful.



- Gabriel Fauré - Sicilianne



A very enchanting and bewitching piece, it's not hard to read, but it is a 2 voiced piece, it may be hard at the begining learning how to fit those notes in a 6/8, but eventualy it will become naturaly if you give a chance to this piece. It's very beautiful, I enjoyed a lot playing this a long time ago.


- Chopin : Waltz in A minor , op posth.

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If you wanna give Chopin a chance once more, you can try out this beautiful Waltz. Simple, easy to learn, and basic technique. It's short, but it may be too easy for you :p


If you wanna develope your technique, you should play some studies also and scales ( I do not recommend Hanon excercices...at least not exclusively)

You can start by some Czerny op 299, school of velocity, any number is good, for example nº7:

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It may sound hard, but it's a very basic study, very easy to read and you do not have to play it at this speed....I played it much slower when I had to and still sounded good.



If you didnt like it or want any other pieces from other composers, then tell me and I'll give you some others, or maybe another person here