What You'll Learn
Piano for every
level.
GRADE 1 — THEORY OF MUSIC
Beginner
- —Musical Stave
- —Types of Notes & Rests
- —Clefs
- —Writing of High and Low Notes
- —Note Names & Reading of Notes
- —Time Signatures
- —Grouping Rules
- —Tones & Semitones
- —Scales & Arpeggios
- —Intervals
- —Triads & Musical Words and Symbols
GRADE 2 — THEORY OF MUSIC
Beginner+
- —Musical Ties
- —Syncopation
- —Metronome Markings
- —Relative Minors and Majors
- —Major and Minor Intervals
- —Minor Triads
- —First Inversion of Tonic Triads
- —Minor Arpeggios
- —Labelling Scales and Arpeggios
- —Broken Chords
- —Working Out the Key of a Piece
- —Perfect Intervals
- —Sequences and Transposing
- —Musical Words and Symbols
GRADE 3 — THEORY OF MUSIC
Intermediate
- —Compound Time Signatures
- —Grouping Rules for Compound Time Signatures
- —Quaver Triplets
- —Melodic Minor Scale
- —Second Inversion of Tonic Triads
- —Major and Minor 6th and 7th Intervals
- —Real and Tonal Sequences
- —Major and Minor Dominant Triads
- —Chord Progression and Perfect Cadence
- —Similar and Contrary Motion
- —4-Part Chords
- —Musical Words and Symbols
GRADE 4 — THEORY OF MUSIC
Intermediate+
- —Alto Clef and New Time Signatures
- —Harmonic Rhythm
- —Enharmonic Equivalents and Chromatic Scales
- —Labelling Scales
- —Labelling Inversions of Tonic Triads
- —Arpeggios and Broken Chords
- —Working out the Key of a Piece (Major / Minor Key)
- —Subdominant Triads
- —Chord Progression and Plagal Cadence
- —Intervals — Augmented 4ths and Diminished 5ths
- —Transposing Tunes Up / Down a Perfect 4th or 5th
- —Dominant 7th Chord
- —Musical Words and Symbols
GRADE 5 — THEORY OF MUSIC
Pre-Advanced
- —Tenor Clef and Revision of Clefs
- —New Note Values and Rests
- —New Time Signatures
- —Major Pentatonic Scales C and G
- —Circle of 5ths
- —New Scales for Grade 5
- —Labelling Scales
- —Arpeggios
- —Working out the Key of a Piece
- —Transposing Tunes Up / Down
- —Supertonic Triads
- —Chord Progression
- —Irregular Rhythms
- —Cadences
- —Compound Intervals
- —Four Part Harmony
- —Accented and Unaccented Non-Chord Notes
- —Harmonic Analysis
- —Melody Writing
- —Form Modules