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Piano Grade 3
The essential syllabus for the aspiring, contemporary pianist. Piano Grade 3 will provide you with everything you need for your Grade 3 exam, including a diverse range of repertoire, a truly innovative range of supporting tests and a vast array of professionally recorded backing tracks and audio examples.
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Piano Grade 3
The essential syllabus for the aspiring, contemporary pianist. Piano Grade 3 will provide you wit...
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Graded Music Exam: Grade 3
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A Whole New World Track 1 of 6£3.99
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Don't Know Why Track 2 of 6£3.99
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Paradise Track 3 of 6£3.99
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Skyfall Track 4 of 6£3.99
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Somewhere Only We Know Track 5 of 6£3.99
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Unfaithful Track 6 of 6£3.99
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Supporting Tests£4.49
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- Songs from Rock and Pop, Jazz, Blues and Soul, Film and Musical Theatre
- Professional backing tracks for pieces and supporting tests
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- Ear Tests
- Technical Exercises
- Sight Reading Examples
- Improvisation and Interpretation Examples
- General Musicianship Questions
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- Coldplay - 'Paradise'
- Nora Jones - 'Don’t Know Why'
- Brad Kane and Lea Salonga - 'A Whole New World'
- Rihanna - 'Unfaithful'
- Adele - 'Skyfall'
- Keane - 'Somewhere Only We Know'
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Technical Exercises
- Group A - Scales
- Group B - Arpeggios
- Group C - Chord Voicings
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- Sight Reading
- Improvisation & Interpretation
- Ear Tests (Test 1: Melodic Recall, Test 2: Chord Recognition)
- General Musicianship Questions
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Page 44
Improvisation & Interpretation
The text has been updated to reflect that the test is a 4–8 bar chord progression. (Updated 18 Jul 2022)
Pages 38–42
Technical Exercises
At the top of page 38, the text of the third bullet point has been updated to "The chromatic scale on A needs to be played hands separately". (Updated 11 Aug 2020)
Pages 38-42
Technical Exercises
The following sentence has been added to the start of the second paragraph on page 38: "Candidates can choose to play either natural minor or harmonic minor scales." (Updated 21 May 2019)
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