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Piano Grade 7 (ish) crowd pleasers

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DayDreamsOfMaria · 27/02/2017 17:22

Looking for some inspiration for piano pieces of level 6/7 that are loved by all Smile

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7to25 · 27/02/2017 17:23

Warsaw concertos?
Think it sounds harder than it is

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Whosafraidofabigduckfart · 27/02/2017 17:29

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DayDreamsOfMaria · 27/02/2017 17:44

Thank you for your suggestions. Both quite dramatic!
I was thinking more dreamy and mellow but also intense, e.g. Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude, Op 28, No. 15 or Beethoven-Moonlight Sonata (Mvt. 1).
They need to appeal to secondary age kids and people with no music knowledge.

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Mistigri · 27/02/2017 18:31

DD is learning Debussy's Arabesque No 1 at the moment - it's not technically difficult (I'd guess at grade 7) and is very accessible.

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Socksey · 28/02/2017 13:25

Minute waltz is great fun and for something a little different maybe something like "The Little Negro" by Debussy... I played that at ALCM but it can be mastered at a lower level.

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NameChange30 · 28/02/2017 13:26

I love Debussy and Yann Tiersen, beautiful and relatively easy to play.

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ealingwestmum · 01/03/2017 09:41

Was going to add Clair de lune, or for a showy, fast (but easier than it sounds), Pieczonka's Tarantella? It's not dreamy, but secondary kids love it!

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BeyondThePage · 16/03/2017 14:42

Somewhere over the rainbow was an ABRSM exam piece at Grade 6 recently - a really nice arrangement of something that everybody recognises.

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Cadenza1818 · 16/03/2017 17:14

The abrsm graded romantic piano books went down well when I was at that stage. Chopin /scriabin preludes. I also had a book called well loved classics- massive yellow bumper of a book with all the crowd pleasers in!

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