40(ish) Pieces in 2025
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Just finished No. 5
1 Michael Head, The Quiet Wood, The Best of Grade 1 Piano (quick study)
2 Joanne Bender, Ripple Effect, RCM 3 Piano Etudes (regular piece at my level)
3 Henry Mancini (arr.), The Pink Panther, Piano Adventures Popular Repertoire - level 3A (quick study)
4 American folk song, Shenandoah, Piano Adventures Level 5 Lesson book, (regular piece at my level)
5 Mozart, Allegro in F, K. 1c, The Best of Grade 1 Piano, (quick study)
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It's great that people are sharing. Please don't be shy about your performances! We know they are just quick studies and not perfect. I hope I'm not scaring anyone away with my performances. Please consider that I have been playing for many years and my easy is not going to be the same as someone else's easy but it doesn't matter. It's still fun to share and watch the other performances.
I should heed my own advice for the recitals. Shame on me, I know. But my big pieces are never ready and I need more discipline to record them properly. 
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BartK I hope I'm not scaring anyone away with my performances.
OMG, I am out of the loop for a few days and you post Scott Joplin! As a QUICK STUDY! I think it's high time that you are going to be the one to be teased about being annoyingly talented 
That was lovely. I always liked that piece!
Animisha the most boring piece that I have ever played
Ok, I was prepared to give you my honest opinion. Like "wow, that was great! I love it! What a gorgeous piece! It's exciting and beautiful!" But... I'd be lying. Yes. you are right, that is one BORING piece. But you played it well and also it counts for the 40 pieces challenge. And you braved yourself in front of a camera, so despite all that, let me say... WELL DONE!
I know posting videos is not required for this challenge, but it sure is nice to see them 
The Gillock piece only took a single session yesterday, compared to the Mozart at 3 days.
The longest quick studies for me are rock pieces with their tied notes for syncopation. My slight dyslexic tendency confuses them with slurs. I haven't done any rock pieces yet this year, but I remember at least one last year that took me 3 weeks.
1 Michael Head, The Quiet Wood, The Best of Grade 1 Piano (quick study)
2 Joanne Bender, Ripple Effect, RCM 3 Piano Etudes (regular piece at my level)
3 Henry Mancini (arr.), The Pink Panther, Piano Adventures Popular Repertoire - level 3A (quick study)
4 American folk song, Shenandoah, Piano Adventures Level 5 Lesson book, (regular piece at my level)
5 Mozart, Allegro in F, K. 1c, The Best of Grade 1 Piano, (quick study)
6 Gillock, Owl at Midnight, Accent on Solos (early to later elementary), (quick study)
BartK It's great that people are sharing. Please don't be shy about your performances! We know they are just quick studies and not perfect. I hope I'm not scaring anyone away with my performances.
I'm glad people are sharing. It's great to hear the variety of pieces, and I'm making note of some of the pieces I'd like to eventually learn myself. I'm still very much a beginner, so I don't expect my pieces to sound great. Other people's recordings aren't stopping me from sharing a recording of my playing. the biggest reason is I'm naturally shy so it's hard to put myself out there. Even so, I did try to get make a video on my phone, but my phone is old and slow and the video looked and sounded blurry. I tried messing around with getting an audio recording, but that's a pain getting it from my piano to my computer. Those are the main reasons. I could probably come up with more excuses reasons. 
Kaydia I'm naturally shy so it's hard to put myself out there
I think that's how most of us started out, Kaydia. And let's face it, you don't need excuses reasons anyway. If you want to share a video/audio, we're ready to cheer you on. You might even get a few tips of things you might not have been aware of. I remember that sometimes there have been tips about sitting too close to the keys (very easy to do especially since we're all sitting right above our computer keyboard). Or sitting too low, etc. If that's what you want 
But if you don't want to share videos and just want to chat, that's totally fine too 
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In the spirit of sharing , my next two pieces (3 and 4), though again very far from perfect, but I have chosen them to address some of my weakest points - jumps, and tempo.
40-P list 2025:
Gooseberry
Nice! Those two are always fun to play.
BartK Thanks! It took some hard work for me to get them even to that imperfect shape , but yes, quite a bit of fun too.
Very nice Gooseberry! I too learned the Musette piece a while ago because I love it so much! And yes, it has many big jumps... plus some tricky passages. Now I want to dust it off and play learn it again, thanks for the reminder.
And the Wild Horseman is a very nice, I liked it very much. Very happy and bouncy. I also sense a theme developing... Wild Horses, Wild Horseman, so what's next... Wildfire? Goodbye Horses? One Trick Pony?
Sophia 
Goodbye Horses, rather, I've had enough of galloping for now and look forward to learning something of a nice walking tempo.
This latest 40(ish) piece is played entirely on the black keys. It was fun to play, with a lot of 8va repeated sections. Getting the groups of 2+3 black keys to sound as one was the most challenging part for me, especially the further away they were in the 8va sections.
- A Canyon Deep by Edna Mae Burnam (From Pieces to Play with Step by Step Book Two)
- Stained Glass Window In A Church by Edna Mae Burnam (From Pieces to Play with Step by Step Book Two)
- The Shoemaker by Edna Mae Burnam (From Pieces to Play with Step by Step Book Two)
- Love Me Tender by Elvis Presley & Vera Matson, Arr by Christine H. Barden (From Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Greatest Hits Level 1)
- Ming Ling by Mary Elizabeth Clark (From Favorite Piano Solos Blue Ribbon Encyclopedia Level One)
Here are my January pieces. They are all from Alfred's AIO book 2.
- Frankie and Johnny
- Waltz in G Minor
- Theme from 6th Symphony "Pathetique" (Tchaikovsky)
- Fascination (F Marchetti)
- Loch Lomand
The book does not include composer names for three of the pieces.
Next month I will begin choosing my own pieces, but this month I stuck with the method book as I'd like to finish it soon.
"Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)
It is all going very well with my 40(ish) pieces. So very nice to work with something else during my evening session!
- J.S. Bach - Arioso from cantata 156 (lesson piece)
- John Thompson - Hide and seek (quick study)
- Erik Satie - Petite prÃĐlude à la journÃĐe (quick study)
- J.C. Bach - Prelude in A minor (quick study)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Memory, from Cats (quick study)
- Sarah Konecsni - Bells in the mist (quick study)
- To be revealed in the next recital (lesson piece)
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... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...
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Your technique is excellent and it's obvious that you've thought with a lot of care about how to play the piece. If you have a teacher I think they are doing an excellent job and if you are self learning it's even more impressive because I think many who learn without a teacher don't play with such good technique.
