Grade 6

i think this is true because i play violin as well and the pieces have always been much better

Hey, that's cool! When are you taking your Grade 6? Which pieces are you doing?

I don't think the piano pieces are that bad, although the Grade 6 pieces don't seem too good this year... usually, there's at least one per group that catches my eye (or ear), but with Grade 6 none of them did.

I'm not doing grade 6 til next spring and I havnt looked at the pieces yet. My teacher wants me to improve my repertoire first. When are you taking it then?

Hoping to take Piano DipABRSM at the end of this year in December I am nearly there in my pieces just need to polish them off a bit now.

i don't know whether anyone else will agree but i've found that for higher grades the piano pieces are so much nicer...you can actually ENJOY playing them for once! In my grade 1 and 3 they were rubbish! (well I didnt like them anyway...but each to his own taste!)

Yes, I agree!

How can you agree when you've never played grade6-8 pieces. You've only recently done grade 2...............and saying you're grade 3 I can see

I'm currently learning Fur Elise at home and it seems much better than the other pieces I've learnt such as the Kabalevsky Waltz. And all these pieces that everyone talks about sound quite interesting. And also I've seen other people play high-level pieces at concerts and festivals.

Oh whatever

Anyway, does anyone know what grade Fur Elise is?

Oh FRSM definitely

Oooh, sarky! Steady on diva!!

zing! haha

I THOUGHT THERE R MANY DIFFERENT VERSION OF FUR ELISE ISNT IT?
I MEAN THOSE EDITED.

Grade 4 so they say. The tricky bits are in the middle, the main theme is a lot easier.

*However*, it's not how hard the piece is, it's how well you play it!

Cheers StuMac. The reason I'm learning it is because I've got it on my keyboard and it is one of my favourite pieces.

Yeah, it's a lovely piece. A classic too. I think it's around Grade 4-5, but I learnt the piece when I was only at Grade 3. I put in a lot of effort, so the grade didn't really matter. Up to a certain level, you can play any piece if you put in the practice.

I might start learning Prelude in C (another piece on my keyboard) after I have finished with Fur Elise, and I presume that is around the same grade, is it?

If it's the one by Bach, then yes. It's nice, I like it too.

Recently took grade 4, waiting for results!!

I don't think Fur Elise is that hard....in fact it's quite ....well...easy?

Yes I agree, although the right hand is definetley much easier than the left, according to my opinion!

i took Grade 5 June 2005 and just started Studying Grade 8

What's wrong with grades 6 and 7?

i am supposed to be doing Grade 4 but i've missed quite alot of lessons so I have to take it next term. (Hopefully)

I'm awaiting my G4 results.

I took it 11th July so it's been 2 weeks already !

How long does it usually take for the results this time of year ?

My teacher said one of her pupils results came on Sat 23rd July after taking it 4th or 6th |July.

How much longer must I wait ?????

Fiona

Thanks for your reply Aaran. I hope so too

I Like Piano, I played:

Polonaise - Bach
Prelude - Heller
Freeway - can't remember !

Never had a lesson, but I like a challenge, so I just bought the Grade 6 book

Well, it's not as if I'm new to music, I already play clarinet/sax.

Plus, when I was growing up I had a keyboard which I could play around on, even if it was slightly awful. I found it the other day; 3 octaves and I have a handspan of over 2 octaves on it!

Recently I've been buying soem piano music to work on, and it's been quite successful, so I'm just going to see where I can go with the Grade 6 book.

And if I fail miserabley, it's just £5.95 lost and experience gained!

Thanks, good luck with your exams too

Im hoping to do grade 7 piano at christmas, depends on how much practice i do over the holidays!

i want to try get done Grade 8 done by my 18th birthday, that plus Grade 6 Recorder and Grade 5 (maybe 6/7) Flute

im about grd 6/7....apprently very impressive at the age of 13!

Grade 3!

What's the exclamation mark for?

Can't you remember the excitement of making progress?

Maybe it's a mathematician on grade 6

I'm grade 7! (5040 if you like maths)

I have no clue what grade I would be in....

What grades are Chopin's Mazurka (Op. 67, No. 2), Chopin's Nocturne (Op. 37, No. 1), Chopin's Waltz (Op. 69, No. 2), and Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2?

I guess that you've either discovered the secret of long life or you're doing slightly more than a grade a year !


It's not possible to tell what grade you are from what pieces you play the hard part is how well you play the pieces and the other sections (sightreading, aural and scales). With Rachmaninoff's Concerto Number 2 you could be the winner of the Leeds piano competition; or a grade 2 pianist in way above your depth! How long you've been playing and how good you are at the other things would give a better indication....

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If I can sight read very well, play by ear, and do all scales and arpeggios, have been playing for 11 years, and I am 15 years old...then what grade?

Sorry, it's really not possible without hearing you actually play these things: how well is very well? All scales and arpeggios: does that mean all major and minor hands together or every combination including both hands together each one doing thirds? and how well is do? I'd guess from what you've said you'd be at the top end of the grade scale possibly even 8 (of course you wouldn't actually have grade 8 unless you've done the exam but could be around that standard without taking it) but really without hearing how well you can play it's not possible to say; that's what the exams are for! What matters really anyway is how well you can play, not what grade you have: are you from a country in which it's not usual to do exams?

If you really want to know you could take a look at the syllabus and have a guess, but that only tells you what you have to do; not how well you have to do it!

Yes, I am from Switzerland.

Wow, impressive indeed. I'm 13 and I just passed my grade 4. Just had a look at the grade 5 scales and OH MY GOD there are so many.

Maybe because you started early? When did you start? I started when I was 8.

I'm Grade 4 - and am so delighted that I can now call myself 'intermediary'!

Been playing five years, but started age 43, so, I'm pleased with progress - until I have to perform in public! (Check out the North West Learners Concert on the Adult Learners forum!)

Anne

I'm about grade 3 AMEB (not sure how that translates to ABRSM, grade 4 or 5 I think?), but I've worked through the grades 1-3 ABRSM exam books as well.

I'm doing piano for my degree, but I'm not expected to be at grade 3 AMEB until november next year. *proud*

I'll have finished my 2-year unit in by the end of August at the latest.

I'm sitting grade 8 in November.

Still waiting for my Grade 5 results !

Yipeeeee !

I'm officially a Grade 4 !

Got my results this morning !!!!

Fiona