1 Goals Piece list examples and suggestions (from pregrade1-ARCT)
Goal Setting is very important What is your: Life Goal? Year Goal? Month Goal? Week Goal? Day Goal? ---Create a schedule Divide your time like this: (Example) 1 hour a day? 50% to pieces = 30 minutes 35% to Scales and technique = 21 minutes 5% to clapping = 3 minutes 5% to ear training = 3 minutes 5% to sight reading = 3 minutes
Do everything to the best of your ability, make each little thing a challenge or "contest with yourself" Technique: Piece list: (Keep in mind this is Canada's grading system, your country might have a different way.) * at end signifies a personal Favourite Pregrade1 Twinkle little star * Happy birthday March and Run - Joan Last * Old MacDonald had a Farm Freddy the Frog - Anne Crosby Playful Puppy - Boris Berlin
Grade 1 Book: "Anna Magdalena's Notebook" - JS.Bach (Grade 1-5) Bourree - JS Bach Mist - Clifford Poole * Big Teddy Little Teddy - Linda Niamath * On the Trampoline - Linda Niamath Porcupine Dance - Dmitri Kabalevsky * Teapot invention - Andrew Markov Study in C - Czerny Duet for one - C Norton
Grade 2 Aria in D minor - J.S Bach A Little Song - Kabalevsky * Penguins - Linda Niamath Book called:"A Zoo for you" * Melody - Schumann Mouse in the coal bin March of the Goblins - B. Berlin* Rag Time Jazz Invention no 2
Grade 3 Musette in D major J.S. Bach * Minuet in G major - J.S Bach Horn Pipe in Bb - Purcell Sonatina in G by Beethoven (either movement) The Jolly Roger - M Eckstein * Sonatina in C Op 36 no Clementi (any movment) Song of Twilight - Y. Nakada * Clowns Op39 no 20 - Kabalevsky Book: "Album for the Young Op 68" - R. Schumann (grade 2- Play - Bartok
Grade 4 Study in Bb Major Op 599 No 83 - Czerny ** (Highly recommended) Minuet in d minor - J.S. Bach * Monkey's in the Tree - B. Berlin * Sonata in F major 3rd movment: Scherzo - F.J Haydn The Wild Horseman Op 68 No 8 - Schumann
Grade 5 From the Cliffs - Walter Carroll Intrada in C Major - C Graupner Sonatina in G major Op 36 No2 1st movment - M Clementi Study in A flat Major op 37 no. 44 - A. H. Lemoine
Grade 6 Minuet in G minor - Stolzel Sonatina in F major Op 168, No. 1 3rd movment: Rondo - A. Diabelli Valse miniature Op 10 no 10 Rebikov Game of Patience - Karganov
Grade 7 Little prelude in C major - JS.Bach Fur Elise - Beethoven Prelude in e minor op 28 no 4 - Chopin Venetian Boat Song Op 30 No6 - Mendelssohn Waltz - Rebikov Wound up - C. Norton
Grade 8 Soffiegetto - CPE Bach Sonata in G Major 1st or 2nd movment - Beethoven Sonata in C major K 545 1st movment - Mozart Waltz in A flat Major op 39 no 15 - brahms Prelude in b minor - Chopin Waltz in A flat major op 69 no 1 - Chopin The little Sheperd no 5 - Debussy Etude Allegro - Nakada
Grade 9 Le coucou (Rondeau) - Louis-Claude Daquin Nocturne in E flat Major Op 9 No 2 - Chopin Waltz in D flat major op 64 no 1 "Minuet waltz" - Chopin "Rain drop" prelude in D flat major op 28 no 15 - Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor op 64 no 2 - Chopin Rondo in C Major op 51 no 1 - Beethoven To spring - Grieg Romance op 24 no 9 - Sibelius
Grade 10 Book: WTC Book 1 & 2 (grade 10 & ARCT) - J.S. Bach ** (a must buy) Prelude & Fugue in F minor - From WTC 2 J.S. Bach Sonata in C minor op 10 no 1 3 movements in total. - Beethoven Other Beethoven Sonata's include: F minor op 2 no 1 F major op 10 no 2 E major op 14 no 1 G major op 14 no 2 D major op 28
Sonata in D major - Haydn Sonata in E flat major K 282 - Mozart Intermezzo in F minor Op 118 no 4 - Brahms Romance in F major op 118 no 5 - Brahms Polonaise in C sharp minor - Chopin Pas De Deux - Barber 1st Arabesque - Debussy Etude op 2 no 1 - Scriabin
Grade "ARCT" Nocturne in C minor op 48 no 1 - Chopin Polonaise in A flat major "heroic" Op 53 - Chopin Etudes Op 10 and 25 (Any one) - Chopin Intermezzo A minor op 118 no 1 and no 2 Sonata in F minor Op 57 "Appassionata" No 23 - Beethoven Sonata in C Sharp minor Op 27 no 2 "Moonlight" (all 3 movements) - Beethoven Sonata in B minor op 40 no 2 - Clementi Any Hungarian Rhapsody (excluding no 3, 17 and 18) - Liszt ( no 2 is my favourite) Impromptu no 2 in F minor Op 31 - Faure Three preludes - Gershwin Preludes Op 23 no 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Op 32 3 ,5 ,9 10, 12 - Rachmaninoff Miroirs (Any one) - Ravel
(There are SO many more great songs out there, I could keep going on and i'm sure i've missed some that I haven't thought of, but I it's 2 am here, and I don't really want to keep typing, BTW i'm sure tehre are MANY mistakes and typo's in this writing, but I'm not trying to write perfectly here, so don't bother correcting me, this is for example and reference only. This is NOT a complete list by any means.)
