Piano Forum

I agree with what brogers is saying. If you tackle a work that is "too difficult" for you, you can end up spending a lot of time trying to solve it, where you might as well learn much easier works, build your skill levels up, so when you are ready for it you can get through it much more efficiently, even a hundred times faster than it would be to just brute force your way through it when you are not experienced enough.

You may also never master the piece and always play it with tension and errors, the tension part is the most detrimental becase you may become accustomed to poor excecution and miss out on how you really should be controlling technique at the piano.

There is nothing wrong with just giving it a shot even if you are not ready but you should be wary not to allow it to become a major focus in your piano training. This is not easy to do as piece you are obsessed with often can overrun your piano journey and can be difficult to keep as only a minor focus. If you are able to control yourself and dabble with it but keep studying works which are more appropriate then go ahead and do so. Some people actually find learning works that are difficult act as a caltalyst for their development. On the other side of the coin, it is no good being ultra careful in your approach, I have had students who have studied piano for years with other teachers but have moved onto higher grades far too slowly. So we have to find a good rate, challenge ourselves but not too much, not everything should be ultra easy and provide no resistance, how can one grow appropriately without at least some struggle in life?

The Revolutionary Etude is not terribly difficult from all of the etudes in Chopin's list, so I would suggest you just give it a go and see how you do, but do work on smaller works that are maybe one or two pages in length, build your skill level up.