How fast are we required to play double stop scales? I find difficult to play them fast enough for it to be accurate in pitch even after practising for a long time.

So would I be required to play it out as fast as the single-note scales? Will I be penalised for not doing so.

Any tips on improving them will be grateful.

Thanks

These are the scales:

Double stop scales are in crotchets and minims at grade 6 and in crotchets for grades 7 and 8.

If you played them at about 80 crotchets per minute, you'd not be penalised. If they were dramatically slower than this, then you'd probably be "docked" by a few marks.

To get the pitch more accurate at the correct speed you could try placing both fingers on the strings as if you were playing the scale normally, but then only sound one of the notes. Try playing just the upper or the lower note, so that you can hear clearly when each note is accurately in tune. Then try repeating the scale sounding the note that you didn't play before. Once you can play the scale accurately in each of these ways, try playing the scale with both notes sounding together.

I tried sounding out one string at a time (Eb major in 6ths) and found out that even though they sound "harmonically", but they are not accurate once I sound them individually (using a tone generator metronome), so have to re-practice. I almost overlooked that one (the correct pitch).

For the octaves, it's easy when slow, but I tend to slip it (since they must really be positioned accurately for perfect octave sound) , so it'll take more practice to get near 80. So far it's alright at 60. (Crotchets)

Thanks.