A while ago now, I bought the Grade 8 Scales book
I bought this as I assumed it would have EVERY scale and Arpeggio in it
But i was wrong!!
It doesn't have any A scales/Arpeggios nor Bb, E, G!!!
Do you not have to learn them at Grade 8
Do ABRSM have abook with them ALL in??
Thanks

No, they are not on the grade 8 syllabus.

There is a scale book
It's here

Wow!! that is so wierd
Are they on the Grade 6 syllabus as I don't have the book for Grade 6 and I'm pennyless at the moment!

No you don't have to learn them all...thank goodness.

I got confuzzled at first too...here's the thread that I started:



http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?showtopic=6646&hl=

Yes.
Find the syllabus here

Do you need a scale book if you know what the scales are?
Some people do and some don't.

I find a scale book to be a useful aide-memoire to make sure I've covered everything I should have. Yes, I know, I could make a list, but I never have got round to it......

I made a card with my scale rota on it which covered everything over 4 days.



But by grade 8 they are al learned anyway... just the extra things like 6ths to add.

I believe that the reason ABRSM took out some easy scales for Grade 8 is because they're covered in the lower grades.
I mean,
will the examinor ask a grade 8 pianist to play C major in contrary motion?

They might......
And I bet it would catch out a few people who make the mistake of thinking like that..

*blurry*
How do you think ABRSM catch the candidates?

At Grade 8, I don't really think that it would be a problem! But no, they shouldn't because you don't have to do contrary motions at Grade 8. If you buy the Grade 8 and Grade 7 books, then you will have all the scales, 7 covers all the keys, even though you just play one group in the exam and has contraries in it. Grade 8 doesnt have all the keys but has 6th aparts and all the positions of arpeggios. And really, the few that are missing, they're not hard to work out as quite a few fingering patterns are similar/the same! In scales, there is no scale that doesn't have a fingering pattern that is the same as another. I don't think scale patterns will ever leave me!