How do I do it? I've been playing for about two years now and I would like to learn more pieces...at least four a month (aside from the pieces I have to play for my paino lessons). Not just from one specific period but a variety. Do you have any suggestions?? (P.S I would really like to try playing the Claire du Lune but I don't know how to go about learning it (the arpeggios scare me )
Here's what I'm doing to build up repertoire: learning the 2005-2006 Grade 8 pieces. I hope to have them all learned before they expire. After all, why not let the exam board do the hard work of trawling the piano repertory; it's their job, isn't it? That gives about 30 (one hopes) high quality and varied pieces that aren't too hard for a skilled-but-rusty pianist to learn. It'll also be good for learning pieces quickly. Of course, I've still got some harder pieces I'm working on but learning something easier alongside will speed that up rather than slow it down. Or so I hope.Actually I'm cheating slightly - one of them (the Hindemith interludium and fugue) was on the syllabus many years ago when I did my own Grade 8, and I learned it then. So I have a head start.
Where'd you find the Poulenc Nocturne?
Think about the A chord for example. You know the A tritone is actually three notes, but if I tell you the A chord you know exactly what I'm talking about.
I haven't yet; I only have the "selected pieces" book plus what other pieces I happened to have lying around. (The Beethoven, the Bach, the Hindemith). That's probably enough to be going on with for the moment. Why, is it difficult to get hold of?