Buttery Ivories! is a high-energy, modern study designed to develop finger dexterity and clean articulation. Its distinctive features include rapid scale passages that traverse the register of the keyboard.
Practice the rapid scalar passages with a firm, active finger stroke.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Buttery Ivories! is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 4.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Buttery Ivories! lasts about 2.5 minutes.
Buttery Ivories! is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Bagel Creek Rag by Cameron Lee Simpson, Candy Crush! by Cameron Lee Simpson, 24th Street Rag by Cameron Lee Simpson — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.