This is a very summarized list of pieces from pre-Grade 1 all the way up until ARCT. Keep in mind this is using the RCM (Royal Conservatory of Music) grading method and isn’t the same in all places all over the world.   This list is for the purpose of giving direction and motivation to a student trying to learn on their own at home.

Piece Progression List from  Lesson #40:

Outline for learning Piano:

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 2-8)
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

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