I am about grade 6

I'm due to take my grade 6 soon

Lisa xx

Just learnt that I've passed my Grade 5 with distinction today. So I guess I'm around 5/6.

Untested. Probably about 3.

Passed grade 6

Grade 7 On Tuesday!

Same here.

Got distinction for grade 6 at Christmas. I'm doing grade 7 now.

Hmm...grade9 I suppose....

I've done grade 5, but that was a while back.

Is it just me, or are some of the piano pieces for exams absolutely rubbish compared with other instruments?!

Err I don't think so..

I was just ignoring that!

I got some maracas for my birthday, and I've put myself in for grade 8 already! (before anyone gets offended that is not a jibe at anyone, and it's joke that a friend who's never been on here said!)

LOL elmo!!

I can't ignore certain things...you know that!!

Grade 3

Grade 9?????????

Maybe we should just ignore that....judging by his posts today he certainly isn't quite on this planet

haha...
I think so...
interesting...

They ought to call it Grade 9!

Call what grade 9?

The one after Grade 8

Erm I thought that is DipABRSM

Same thing.

No it isn't...

Well if you are thinking of a YAMAHA piano exam, there IS a Grade 9. It's graded the same way as their electone (electric organ) exams. Beginning with the levels e.g 14-10 then Grade 9 right up to Grade 1, which is the most difficult. Normally piano teachers with Grade 4 or 5 qualify to teach.

perhaps it sounds strange, but i really don't know what grade I'm in. This is because i play the piano for only two years now. Perhaps someone else knows it. my pianoteacher (who ofcourse studied at the conservatory) told me to search for a new instrument to play (i play 9 instruments at this moment) because he isn't able to teach me anymore. That means i just finished the upper grade. how many grades are there anyway?

Working slowly towards Grade 1.

My teacher says I can play pieces at about grade 6, but that's a long way from actually passing the grade 6 exam!! Working towards Trinity 1st concert certificate at present, which is supposed to be grade 5/6 technical standard. You get a longer list of pieces to choose from, and have to present them as a 15 min concert with introductions etc. No scales / sight reading / aural but a 5 min oral exam after performance and there are also marks for stage skills / presentatiion.

I'm planning on playing Beethoven first movement sonata in G (op 49, no 2), Mozart 1st movement from sonata in E flat, Milhaud, rag caprise no 2 - Romance, and Maxwell davis Farwell to stromness.

I *may* try grade 6 if the Concertr ceertificate isn't too traumatic, particularly if I can play Prayer of the Matador!!! I think I'd do the Copin piece on list B and the A1 piece whose name I can't remember. I've done all the scales etc for grade 6, but I must confess I've hardly practised them since I started work towards the Concert Certificate.

Stumac

Go for it! You are bound to do well!

Got distinction in grade 5 in april, working toward grade 6 next year.

Just passed Gr5 with (my first) DISTINCTION (ever in music...after 5 exams in various instruments) ...so am 5/6-ish...

taking grade 6 in november

Hopefully, I'll be grade 4 after wednesday.

currently at grade six......playing the piano....

I don't do ABRSM (haha, what am I doing here? ). ABRSM isn't as well known down here in Australia. My exams are run by the AMEB (Australian Music Examinations Board), and I am doing my AMusA, also called Associate, or the first diploma level.

Oh...I heard from my friend in Aus. that it's very difficult...AMEB grade6=ABRSM grade8 !?

Yes. Rather odd... I wonder what AMusA is equivalent to??

Perennially working for grade 8....will take it one day...promise!

looks like im the only one working for grade 4, exam at 8/8/05
so nervous........ahhhhhhhhh, i only have once taken the exam, which was last year.....hope i can get distinction.it seems no one is in grade 4
if there IS tell me which pieces u've choosen

I've just done grade 4 (made an appalling mess of it...too nervous...but that's another story...)

I played:

Scarlatti - Minuetto
Karganov - Arabesque
Bartok - Melody in the Mist

Good luck with your exam!!

Did Grade 6 ABRSM in March...just a pass that time round!!! I hope not to do any more, but I say that every time...

I'm sure that you'l be fine, glad to hear you made it through the exam .

Regarding the question in the thread I'm never quite sure what to say as everyone says they're grade 5 the day they've passed grade 4: so if that's the case I'm grade 5; otherwise I'm grade 4. In simpler terms I'm soon going to start working on the pieces for grade 5 to hopefully take it in November.

I am working VERY slowly towards Grade 8...need to just get it done but dont have the funds or the time!!!

Thanks for the vote of confidence.....I'll let you know.....

taking grade 8 on 14 july. passed grade 7 under a year ago, am a bit worried, feel a bit rushed about grade 8 but both my teachers reckon i will scrape through. As long as i pass.

I've just started my Grade 6 (grade 5 with 134/150 in June). I started in the winter of Year 7, so I've been learning the piano for 3.5 years. Is that good?

Also, I'm planning on taking the Grade 6 exam either this coming November or the Easter session... at the pace I'm going, around what grade do you think I can get to before I leave school? (Leave school, I mean at 18, after upper sixth.)

Strange, I've been learning almost exactly the same period of time and got exactly 134 in my grade 5 as well!!

grade 4.piano.

Piano- Grade 7

grade 8 but nowhere near taking diploma yet

Passed Grade 7 a while ago - learning Grade 8