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A menu, not a queue. Every piece carries one diagnostic drill. Explore freely and only build the ones you actually want to hear.

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Stage
Stage 1

Foundations

Chords, pulse, and first reading.

8 pieces
01Quick winplay

Let It Be

The Beatles

C major · 4/4

E01Four-chord loop without stopping

Fun · 10 minutesOpen →
02

Stand by Me

Ben E. King

A major · 4/4

E02Root–fifth bass, independent chords

Fun · RhythmOpen →
03

Lean on Me

Bill Withers

C major · 4/4

E03Smooth voice-leading laboratory

Harmony · 10 minutesOpen →
04

Imagine

John Lennon

C major · 4/4

E04Melody louder than accompaniment

Emotional · HarmonyOpen →
05

Someone Like You

Adele

A major · 4/4

E05Broken chords with a descending bass

Emotional · FunOpen →
06

Clocks

Coldplay

E♭ Mixolydian centre · 4/4

E06A three-note figure across four beats

Fun · RhythmOpen →
07

House of the Rising Sun

The Animals

A minor · 6/8

E07Feel 6/8 as two large beats

Rhythm · HarmonyOpen →
08

Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114

Christian Petzold

G major · 3/4

E08Short two-part reading study

Rusty techniqueOpen →
Stage 2

Playing musically

Phrasing, tone, and simple improvisation.

8 pieces
09

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

C major · 6/8

E09Shape a 6/8 musical sentence

EmotionalOpen →
10

The Scientist

Coldplay

F major · 4/4

E10Top-note melody inside a chord

Emotional · HarmonyOpen →
11

No Surprises

Radiohead

F major · 4/4

E11Quiet ostinato under moving harmony

Emotional · 10 minutesOpen →
12

Viva la Vida

Coldplay

A♭ major · 4/4

E12Accents and anticipation

Fun · RhythmOpen →
13

C Jam Blues

Duke Ellington

C blues / C dominant-seventh tonality · 4/4, swung

E13Your first complete 12-bar blues

Fun · RhythmOpen →
14

Melody, Op. 68 No. 1

Robert Schumann

C major · 4/4 (common time)

E14Four-bar phrase and release

Emotional · Rusty techniqueOpen →
15

Arabesque, Op. 100 No. 2

Friedrich Burgmüller

A minor · 2/4

E15Two types of articulation

Rusty technique · FunOpen →
16

Gymnopédie No. 1

Erik Satie

D major · 3/4

E16Bass-to-chord leaps and clean pedal

EmotionalOpen →
Stage 3

Understanding the music

Harmony, voice leading, and form.

8 pieces
17

Don't Stop Believin'

Journey

E major · 4/4

E17Piano arpeggio plus independent bass

Fun · RhythmOpen →
18

Golden Brown

The Stranglers

B♭ minor (score-dependent) · 3/4 with a 4/4 bar every fourth bar, often notated as 6/8 + 7/8

E18The 13-beat phrase

Rhythm · HarmonyOpen →
19

Us and Them

Pink Floyd

D major · 4/4

E19A sustained bass with changing chord color

Emotional · HarmonyOpen →
20

Blue Monk

Thelonious Monk

B♭ blues · 4/4, swung

E20Swing, chromatic approach and silence

Fun · RhythmOpen →
21Sandbox

Autumn Leaves

Joseph Kosma (jazz standard)

E minor · 4/4, usually medium swing or ballad

E21Guide tones through the cycle of fifths

Harmony · RhythmOpen →
22

Prelude in C major, BWV 846

J. S. Bach

C major · 4/4

E22Keep an arpeggio flowing across the hands

Rusty technique · HarmonyOpen →
23Anchorbuild

Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4

Frédéric Chopin

E minor · 2/2 (alla breve)

E23Chromatic descent without losing the melody

Emotional · HarmonyOpen →
24

Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi

Yann Tiersen

E minor · 4/4

E24Left-hand ostinato with free right-hand rhythm

Emotional · RhythmOpen →
Stage 4

Versatility

Pop, classical, and jazz in one week.

8 pieces
25

Your Song

Elton John

E♭ major · 4/4

E25Walking bass motion beneath chord colors

Fun · HarmonyOpen →
26

Piano Man

Billy Joel

C major · 3/4

E26Waltz bass with descending inversions

Fun · RhythmOpen →
27

Everything in Its Right Place

Radiohead

C-centred with Phrygian modal mixture · 10/4 phrase, sometimes written as alternating 6/4 + 4/4

E27Ten beats and modal semitone color

Harmony · RhythmOpen →
28

Life on Mars?

David Bowie

F major · 4/4

E28Chromatic bass, changing harmony

HarmonyOpen →
29

Sonatina in C major, Op. 36 No. 1, I. Allegro

Muzio Clementi

C major · 4/4

E29Scale fluency and classical cadences

Rusty techniqueOpen →
30

Fly Me to the Moon

Bart Howard (jazz standard)

C major / A minor · 4/4 for swing arrangements; composed originally in 3/4

E30Jazz shells with a relaxed two-feel

Harmony · RhythmOpen →
31

Blue Bossa

Kenny Dorham

C minor · 4/4, bossa-nova feel

E31Bossa-nova rhythmic displacement

Rhythm · HarmonyOpen →
32

River Flows in You

Yiruma

A major / F♯ minor relative tonal area · Commonly written in 4/4; some transcriptions group the opening in 2/4

E32Melody within moving sixteenths

EmotionalOpen →
Stage 5

Intermediate control

Texture changes and independent voices.

8 pieces
33

Ballade, Op. 100 No. 15

Friedrich Burgmüller

C minor · 3/8

E33Compact drama in 3/8

Rusty techniqueOpen →
34

New Born

Muse (piano introduction)

E minor · 4/4

E34Two-octave arpeggios without tension

Rusty techniqueOpen →
35

Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen (opening ballad section)

B♭ major (opening) · Mostly 4/4 in the opening ballad section

E35Harmonic detours and return

Emotional · HarmonyOpen →
36

Waltz in A minor, B. 150

Frédéric Chopin

A minor · 3/4

E36Waltz leaps with flexible melody

Emotional · Rusty techniqueOpen →
37

Für Elise, WoO 59

Ludwig van Beethoven (complete)

A minor, with contrasting episodes · 3/8

E37Switching textures without breaking the pulse

Fun · Rusty techniqueOpen →
38

Misty

Erroll Garner (jazz standard)

E♭ major · 4/4, ballad

E38Jazz ballad: color tones below a melody

Emotional · HarmonyOpen →
39

Take Five

Paul Desmond / Dave Brubeck Quartet

E♭ minor · 5/4, commonly felt as 3+2

E39Five beats you can actually feel

RhythmOpen →
40

Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772

J. S. Bach

C major · 4/4

E40Two independent voices: miniature invention

Rusty techniqueOpen →