At the base of this post is really: HEY! Any other Adult Beginners following the Suzuki method or is it just me and a lot of 5-year olds on youtube?
If so, please respond and let's take this journey together!

Here's where I'm at:
As I am sure you can imagine with the new year: new resolutions.
I have been playing from the Keith Snell books as well as the Suzuki International books; and last year did not go super well...I know I know it happens. Basically I really just accomplished pecking at this and that and then playing a couple pieces in the Multiple Piano Festival here in Boulder County (which was da bomb, so no dis there)

SO! This year I have decided to have a much smaller focus with much smaller goals: within the next six months finish Suzuki book 2 and also work on one of those "someday" pieces.
SO! The someday piece I decided on was a C Major arrangement of Linus and Lucy.

First two lessons of the year hit up the Suzuki V2 pieces I had done before, and was quite pleased to be able to get those pieces under my fingers again much more rapidly than I thought. So here is my newly revised scheduled for the rest of the pieces, giving 2 weeks to each piece while practicing 2 measures each week of L+L

There are 13 songs total.
January 5th: Ecossaise + review of Book 1
January 12th: Short Story, The Happy Farmer, Minuet in G Major (Minuet 1)
January 19th: Minuet in G Major (Minuet 2); 2 measures of L+L
January 26nd: Minuet in G Minor (Minuet 3?)
February 9th: Cradle Song
February 23rd: Arietta
March 8th: Hungarian Folk Song
March 22nd: Melody
April 5th: Minuet in G Major
April 19th: Sonatina in G Major
May 3rd: Children at Play; Linus and Lucy all done!

What do you think sirs?

Oh and if there's another post for Suzuki in Beginners Forums that I couldn't find, please tell me and I will smack this there.

I think that I might be familiar with a lot of the pieces you aim to work on, but if you provided the composer too, that might make your list easier to evaluate.

For example: I think you might have some Beethoven, Bartok, Grieg, Schumann, Kabalevsky, and Bach but I could be wrong.

If I am correct, I think some of the pieces would take much more than 2 weeks to play delightfully well. Arietta (if it the piece by Grieg) is likely to take a bit more time.

For example, I have been playing a silly little piece by Kabalevsky called "The Clown." Everyone in my family wants to kill this clown because no one liked it the first time I played it and I have been working on it for two weeks. Last week at lesson I could certainly convey the mood of a clown, but a rather geriatric one. This week's clown is a bit peppier-- but ultimately the fate of this clown lies in the hands of my wonderful teacher.

I think you will find that you can make all the schedules you like but all you are doing is setting yourself up for unnecessary stress. My advice would be to allow yourself to enjoy the entire process of practicing and let the "when finished" part take care of itself. In the final analysis you have very little control over how long a given piece will take. It will take as long as it takes and that is the end of it.

This made me laugh out loud just because I have -so- been there. Both in the S.O. putting on headphones so they don't have to hear that 30 second piece 100 more times AND having a piece much much out of tempo from where it's supposed to be
It is really exciting when the piece, the Clown if you will, gets to where you're satisfied as a player
-BB
Thanks for sharing!

Yeah I'm trying to strike the balance between deadlines so I make sure to get my butt to the piano every day and being frustrated when I don't make my schedule due to a slightly harder piece.
I really do enjoy playing piano about 90%-95% of the time...in my mind though piano is -work- so I can get distracted into doing something that is -not work- (re: TV) that I don't end up enjoying nearly as much.
So trying this scheduling to see if that's a solution for me...
-BB

Re-listing with composers:

There are 13 songs total.
January 5th: Ecossaise by Hummel + review of Book 1
January 12th: Short Story by Lichner, The Happy Farmer by Robert "play this MF" Schumann, Minuet in G Major (Minuet 1) BWV 822 by Bach
January 19th: Minuet in G Major (Minuet 2) from Notebook for Anna Magdalena; 2 measures of L+L
January 26nd: Minuet in G Minor (Minuet 3?) by Bach BWV 822
February 9th: Cradle Song by Weber Op13 No 2
February 23rd: Arietta by Mozart (not super helpful for identity purposes...sorry)
March 8th: Hungarian Folk Song by my man Bartok Sz. 42
March 22nd: Melody by Schumann OP 68 No1
April 5th: Minuet in G Major by Petzold (from Notebook for Anna Magdalena)
April 19th: Sonatina in G Major by Beethoven Anh. 5
May 3rd: Children at Play by Bartok; Linus and Lucy all done!

I'm 22 and I did start self-learning (in summer 2011) based on the Suzuki Piano School series. I stopped being very strict about following it when I started to be able to learn pieces I chose myself because I liked them.

Some of my recordings on YT are of Suzuki Vol. 2 pieces.

Good luck!

I re-started piano at age 59 about 3 1/2 years ago after having quit lessons at age 12 (starting RCM grade 4) because I couldn't handle the stress of exams and recitals on top of school work. I ended up choosing Suzuki after a few weeks of exploration with my teacher who happens to be certified to teach the method. I made the choice because I liked the repertoire in the Suzuki books much better than the stuff in the other methods. And the teacher was prepared to accept my demand for "no recitals, ever". I started out where you are, in Book 2. I'm now in late Book 4. I found that there is a big leap in difficulty between books. I've been in Book 4 for a year now, and I don't think I'll have all the pieces up to a reasonable standard until next fall. Nevertheless, I recently bought Book 5 and the CD so I can start listening ahead of time.

When you get to Book 3, if you want to get really depressed, there is a YouTube video of Japanese concert pianist Aimi Kobayashi playing the "Spiritoso" movement from the Clementi Op 36 no. 3 at age 4, when she needed a booster seat to reach the keyboard. Amazing child! I hate her. (No, not really, but you know . . . .)

Re: The Clown: I played that piece for my Grade 3 exam when I was 10 or 11. It's not a bad piece once you get it up to tempo. I had to laugh at the description of the elderly clown. That's what most of my playing sounds like these days. Andante is about as fast as I get with anything before the wheels fly off.