My daughter is going to take ABRSM Grade7 Piano Exam this coming June.

I notice she needs to filp over the musical sheet during playing the piano and this result a seconds of delay in continuing playing

I wonder it is the right way to filp the muscial sheet or perhaps marks will be deducted from the flipping of the sheet during exam ?

Pardon my english

Any advice ?

Thanks in advance

She should find some way not to pause, but there is plenty of time before June and I am sure her teacher will go over this nearer the time. Often photocopying just one page can let the page turn be at a better place. Or she could play a bit of the piece from memory.

It would be OK to photocopy the next page and have it up on the music desk beside the one needing to be turned, if the turn comes at an awkward point in the music - using photocopies for the whole piece is not allowed, but you can copy just one or two pages if needed. There really shouldn't be a break in the continuity of the music. Some people will memorise the first few bars of the next page instead, up to a point where it is easier to turn a page - the best places obviously being where one hand has a long enough rest to do the job, or you get to a double bar.

sorry - wasn't quick enough!

Learning to cope smoothly with page turns is a useful skill but where it's particularly difficult (and sometimes it is) you can photocopy a page to overcome this. Where it is possible to run over neatly this must be included in the practice.
The exam regulations say that a delay due to page turning won't be penalised but I think that it's better to either copy a page or practice turning over.

To answer Noodle, there are 3 pieces chosen by my daughter for Grade7 Piano Exam :

a) The Little Shepherd by Debussy ( 2 pages)

b) Sonata in A flat Hob.XVI/46 by Hayoh (5 pages)

c) Octobre Chant d'automne by Tchaikovsky (3 pages)

It is not practical to photostat 5 pages and join together and put infront of the player.

There should be a pratical way , shouldn't there ?

So presumably the Haydn is the only one needing any sort of major consideration? Looking at our edition of that (ABRSM, lousy binding which makes it difficult to lay the music flat ), the first turn is timed so that the right hand has one beat rest, and probably is intended to be used for the flip - the second turn is very awkwardly scored, so I'd be inclined to copy the last page. What I do is tape the copy to the edge of the previous page: if the music looks to be wider than the stand, I use my carboard support thing - a sheet of card big enough to support all three pages - behind the music.

Another tip for easier turns - I use the strips of plastic post-it stuff which students use for marking pages - they're removable, and by sticking one to the bottom or top corner of a page one side, and another the other side, so a little bit of sticky from each tacks onto the back of the other, you get a good tab to grab onto for a turn. The packs of tabs I get come in different colours, so if I've got lots of turns, I have several different coloured ones one above the other, which is eyecatching and also helps.

No advice on this but I noticed you wrote 'pardon my English' and I just wanted to say that your English was great and your post very clear to understand.

In fact I think the word 'flipping' instead of the more commonly used 'turning' is a great description of the frantic leap to the corner of the page and wild wrist movement !!

I went to a concert last week in which the pianist occasionally threw a page onto the floor rather than turn it over. It was a little surprising the first time but it was very deftly done and far quicker than turning.

I've done that before.

As long as the effect of dragging one sheet off the stand isn't to pull others off with it, that works very well, yes.

He'd be in big trouble if there was a repeat!! Imagine scrabbling about on the floor for the right page

I memorise some of the piece so I could turn further over the next page. I love Octobre

If you practice turning pages it will get quicker