Sometimes you hit a brick wall and don't seem to be improving which is quite frustrating. There is some stuff I really like that I know I can't play at the moment, but what I've done is jump in and learn the easier passages which is quite nice - it'll give me a head start later on, too I'm gradually getting over it though and getting braver with what I try to play, it's all about pulling it apart and working it out bit by bit for me I know how you feel when you look at a piece of music and feel terrified. It took me about a month or so to be able to play all my grade 1 pieces as near as I could to flawless for the exam so a week is good! Would tackling harder pieces improve the playing of the easier pieces? I do find that some pieces frighten me and put me off! Would you say a week is a short or long amount of time for a grade 1 piece? I play lots of other things inbetween so I would say in hours I probably spend about 4-5 hours on a page in total (it may be more, may be less, hard to estimate). It's true that pieces don't automatically come with a grade attached but it's easy enough to compare them to other pieces that have been set on syllabuses to get a rough idea of where they are on the scale. Obviously, it's not really the grade of a piece that's important but, given we can't see how other people we've never met play and cope with different technical elements, it's probably the best guage of difficulty to use in the situation. Learning a piece that has a difficulty of more than about a couple of grades higher is probably not really a good idea as you'll probably spend ages and ages getting nowhere with it. I think if you stay within your comfort zone you won't push yourself enough so don't stick to stuff that's *too* easy.Ī bit of a challenge is a good thing, but to choose pieces that are way above where you're at can be depressing, if not counterproductive. I deliberately picked quite a few tricky pieces to tackle recently as I knew they'd deal with some of the issues I have (speed in left hand being one) I don't mind "slogging over" something difficult, as long as I do it piecemeal and don't bore/frustrate myself.
This is the aim, to enjoy rather than say I can play a grade "whatever" song! I want to play pieces that present an element of challenge but are within my abilities and that I can enjoy the playing. I do not have the ability yet to accurately assess the level of a piece and do not want to tackle anything that is beyond my ability as yet, as it will not be productive to my learning if I am slogging over a piece that I cannot master. On the contrary, I think knowing the grades of the pieces are important, especially to a beginner. The melody of this 'Minuet in G Major' was used in the pop music 'A Lovers Concerto,' by the group The Toys, and many other medias such as films.
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