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All Students preparing for Grade exams are
recommended to use the Hofnotes on-line
training pages to practise for the aural tests.
At
higher grades you must be able to discuss with the examiner musical
features such as texture,
form,
style, and
period of a piece of music.
My own web pages to help with these parts of the test at Grade 5+ and at
GCSE
are available
here!
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If you sit down at a piano keyboard and play a
scale using only the white notes, and starting on middle C, what you get is the
familiar C Major scale.
Click
here for a worksheet on the degrees of the C major scale
If you do the same thing starting on the note of A, and
going up to the A above, you get the A (natural) minor scale. These two scales
have a distinct sound; we perceive the major scale as bright and confident,
while the minor scale is sad, mysterious, maybe 'Egyptian'?
If you play the C major scale again, but miss out
the fourth and seventh degrees of the scale, you play a pentatonic scale.
Click
here for a worksheet on the C major pentatonic scale
For more on scales, including the
circle of fifths,
see this
page.
For scale fingerings, see
this
page.
For information on chords, see
this page.
For information on intervals, see
this page.
For information on harmony, see
this page.
     
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