I am about to take my Grade 7 piano exam and find aurals rather challenging.

I would welcome tips on how to recognise the chords after naming the cadence - I do not find it at all easy to hear the base notes so any other suggestions (or tips on how to help hear the base notes) will be most welcome.

Hi, I am also about to take grade 7 (violin) and am finding this aspect of the aurals slightly daunting. I have found Hofnotes useful for this particular element, mainly because you can repeat things as many times as you like which seems to help with listening and recognising different parts of chords.
To some extent it is a process of elimination - if you have got the cadence (and there are only three possibilities I think in this exam) then there are only so many chords possible. I have also found playing around with cadences on the piano very helpful, playing chords in different inversions to get some familiarity with the different feel. Not very expert I'm afraid, but hope some of that is helpful anyway-
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Thanks for your suggestions - I do use Hofnote and am slowly improving (on some tests) tho they give you the actual options which we won't get in the exam. I will persevere with playing cadences on the piano and maybe recognising inversions will be helped by continually hearing/practising them.

Good luck with your exam.

Hi - I used Hofnote for Gr5, and was very useful if slightly simplistic, back then there weren't many options for later grades. However having looked again it seems to have moved on a bit and I've signed up for the Gr 7 exercises...speaking of which, with the cadence info in the ABRSM Aural book I can work out the following possible cadences to listen out for:

_________Perf______Imp______Int
Maj______V-I_______I-V_______V-vi
_________V7-I______I-V7______V7-vi
__________________Ic-V
__________________Ic-V7
__________________IV-V
__________________IV-V7


Min______V-i________i-V_______V-vi
_________V7-i_______i-V7(?)___V-VI(?)
__________________iv-V_______V7-vi
__________________iv-V7
__________________IV-V(?)____V7-VI(?)
__________________IV-V7(?)


Can anyone confirm if I have these right, have missed any or got any wrong ?

ps seems to be a pain trying to get any text lined up like a table in this BB code !!!!!