Suggest some peices for a growing peinist

HA! The title is a joke.
But seriously.

I have no training and have pretty much only played my own material for four years. I'll dissect something and learn how to play it just to learn the composition techniques, but I rarely ever follow through with practicing it so I can play it.

I'm a big fan of fast tempos and counterpoint. Not such a big fan of major keys.

My hand independence is okay... I can do some decent jumping around with my left hand, and I've got pretty good pinky dexterity in my right hand. I have diffculty playing two melodies, but for some reason I have no problem with polyrythms.

My band is about to finish up our work for a bit while I go get my phd, and I think it would be a good time for me to learn things to enhance my skills. Any suggestions? What do you think some critical works might be?

Originally Posted by Varnon

I'm a big fan of fast tempos and counterpoint. Not such a big fan of major keys.

Try Bach's sinfonia in B minor, fast, flashy, contrapunctal and... minor.

Well, how 'bout bach's french suite in B minor. That's a fun one. And all of the inventions in minor keys. 13 is the most fun I think.

Some etudes by Chopin, perhaps?

Ok, I'm not going to tell you what I read the title as.

There's lots and lots of material out there. I have several books of various Russian sonatas, from Prokofiev to Kabalevsky, etc. I like those. I can play the easier ones and they're a good way, I feel, to work into both real music and challenging stuff.

Originally Posted by JohnGalt

Ok, I'm not going to tell you what I read the title as.

Let me guess...

Penis?

Suggest some penises for a growing "penisist"?

What's that, a perv who uses some pseudo-profession as an excuse to get horny?

problay just a mistake when he ment to say painist

Originally Posted by TheIdesofMarch!

Some etudes by Chopin, perhaps?

Black Key ftw.

fast tempo + minor key = Beethoven's sonatas (ex. pathetique?)