I stand at a crossroads. This must have happened before but I don’t remember it. I spent most of my teenage years pending exams or on summer holidays from the piano. The only time I insisted on doing something I wanted to do, I was learning some of Rach II at 17.
I learned Rach II at 17
Treasa Lynch on a Saturday night in June
A piece not meant for Irish teens.
Anyway, after a week of work, I recorded and submitted Grade 6. I dread something going terribly wrong here and me having to unpublish a whole pile of posts around this in utter shame. The question, is what do I do now? I see two options:
- Start working on the Grade 8 repertoire (and find a teacher, for the love of god)
- Take a 2 week break and inflict scales on my neighbours. It cannot be worse than Solfeggiettio has been.
- Do something completely different from the monster pile of sheet music I own.
Yes, that’s 3 options now that I look more closely.
The four pieces on Grade 8 are pieces I actively want to learn. There are also some pieces for “later” that I could play with too. Brahms 118/2. Chopin’s Ballade No 1. Some of Fauré’s stuff. The world is wide open.