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| Traumerei |
After a year and three months of practice, I'm nearing the end of John Thompson's fourth grade book. I recently finished learning Traumerei by Schumann, which is currently on the ABRSM Grade 7 exam list. I'm currently working on the third movement of Mozart's Sonata in C (K545), which is roughly Grade 7 RCM and Grade 6 ABRSM. I'm also working on Beethoven's first sonata, Op. 2. No. 1, Mvt. 1. (The two pieces in between that and the Mozart I'm using as sight-reading exercises, since they are not as challenging technically). The Beethoven is on the RCM exam syllabus for grade 10, but I think that ranking is a bit overinflated, at least for the way I'm likely to play it. Nevertheless, this progress is pretty good, I think, considering I started out at grade 3 level, playing Musette (J. S. Bach) and Melody (Schumann) with the amount of difficulty appropriate to a student at that level. Those pieces didn't seem too easy for me when I was tackling them, and now my current pieces offer the same level of challenge those earlier ones did. I'm eager to jump into the fifth grade book, but I don't want to be too eager. It might take another month or two yet, even though this Beethoven is the penultimate piece. (Tchaikovsky follows, with a selection in 5/4 time.)
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| Musette |
Onward...
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