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Hello! I'm also knew, coming from PianoTV, and would love to join the 40 pieces a year challenge! I have already learnt a couple pieces since the beginning of the year so here they are:

Für Elise (Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor) WoO 59 - Beethoven
Sonata 20 op. 49 no. 2 mvt 1 (still working on the second movement) - Beethoven
Nocturne op. 9 no. 2 in E flat major - Chopin

I will keep you up to date on what pieces I have been learning. I am not quite sure if I will get to 40 pieces this year but we shall see!

Happy playing
- lepetitchien

Hi everybody! I am also going to be participating in the challenge and I hail from PianoTV as well! I love this concept as I would enjoy greatly "scaling" my repertoire alongside you all

Hi all! I would also like to participate this year. I'm looking forward to join the challenge and also to hear a lot of new music.

Hi mom3gram , one of my goals is to get through ALFRED's BK 2 before June. I started in June 2016 (but I took a diversion and completed BK 1 during that time). Any who, I watched the fellow on "Let's Play Piano Method" and he recommended people go through their method books several times. Good to hear from you. Birdgolf

Here is my Mozart Allegro, there are mistakes in the left hand in section B over the next few days i'll iron them out![video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=TZBris3oOZ8[/video]

Hello,
I am new to this community because I would like to join this challenge. As an adult beginner, my pieces will be very tiny, but I do very much like the idea and definitely want to give it a try. I have managed one piece this year. It is called "Mazurka (Erinnerung)" by Alexander Gretschaninow. It is from the Russian Piano School (the first volume). I hope to play some pieces from this book. I will not record, though as I do not have the technical opportunities and it would cost time.

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Hi everyone,
I have my first piece for the challenge done - this is from Tim Richards' book "Improvising Blues Piano" which I am aiming to work from quite a bit this year, along with more standard learning from sheets.
I'm currently working on Debussy's Arabesque, Piazzolla's Milonga del Angel, a couple of Irish Trad waltzes which I will hopefully submit to the waltz recital in a couple of months, and various other things. But in keeping with this challenge I aim to tackle something new pretty much every week. I don't necessarily intend to record them all, but I do find it helps to keep me honest!
The first section (repeated at the end) is from the page, the middle section is meant to be RH improv over the same LH pattern. You can hear that it's a bit shaky in comparison.
1. Blue Third Blues - Tim Richards link

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Welcome to the 40 Pieces A Year Club!

This is great! I am planning on doing the same. The reviews for the book have been very positive. Hoping to add improv to my practice routine. I look forward to hearing your progress.


That is so much fun .. great playing!

Here's entry #1, I'm self taught so figure best way to motivate is to take exams - this is one of the pieces I'm playing for Grade 1 exam in June.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo84Ku22NV1_PtNOFMP9PEOSKgVuUqxd/view

First time recording and hearing myself subjectively, the MIDI software I'm using doesn't capture dynamics well but it's a start

1. Song of the Gondolier - Joy of First Classics
2. Beauty and the Beast - Alfred Greatest Hits Bk. 1

1. Bach - Invention 2 in C Minor BWV 773 (Recording)

I'd like to join too! I took piano lessons from age six till I started university and it has been a few years since I have been practising regularly. This looks like a great challenge for me to get back into it and to challenge me to learn a variety of different pieces. I am also here from pianotv's video.

I'm doing the Paul Harris Piece A Week. Starting in the Grade 1 book as my son and I are doing it together for motivation. I'm already in a few weeks, but I'll start with last weeks piece:

- Pony Ride

classictragedy - welcome to the club!

Paul109 - I was unable to listen to your playing, the link appears to be a midi file.

fishandchips - nice Bach!

A couple of updates

#2 - There are several other pieces in this book I think I can do for this challenge. It's really my first Beethoven piece, although I've played around with the beginning part of Fur Elise. This week I'll be working on Country Dance in G Major.
#3 - I started working on this last year. I hope to be able to do it for the February recital. The backup is Sonatina in G Major by Clementi #2, 3rd movement

1. Study in C (Op. 65, No. 3) - Albert Loeschhorn - Pianist Magazine
2. Écossaise (WoO 23) - Beethoven - Masterwork Classics Lvl 3
3. Nuvole Bianche - Ludovico Einaudi - Essential Einaudi (Islands)

Hey everyone, hope the playing is going well
I'm curious, how do people choose what they are going to play next and where to find the pieces? I've personally being using the RCM syllabus.
Also, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a varied collection of RCM grade 6/7 level music (I'm a big fan of Chopin) as that's where I feel I can comfortably learn at this pace right now.

Here's an update with where I am:

1. Prelude in A major (Op. 28 No. 7) - Chopin
2. Lustig und Traurig (WoO 54) - Beethoven

Zephyx
I don’t have an anthology that includes Chopin Grade 6, But have you seen pianosyllabus.com? you can filter for composer and grade. They list 55 Chopin grade 6
http://www.pianosyllabus.com/default.php

You can get all the scores on IMSLP.org

1. Autumn Ballade, from Faber lesson book 5. Not terribly difficult but still lovely!

2. Jazz Fantasy on the Turkish March, by Fazil Say. I've been working on this one for about two months. It has a lot of complicated fingering and I'm definitely not up to the speed that Say plays it at, but it's a lot of fun and I think I've finally gotten it up to performance level.

@Zephyx Most of the pieces I have come from the imslp site. I looked online for a resource for pieces that are grade 1 and went from there. I still have quite a few left in my binder on my piano that I'd like to get to during this challenge so we'll see how that goes.

I've gotten my February recital piece memorized (we'll see how much I remember after being about 20 hours away from it) now I just need to work on dynamics and tempo.