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Piano Grade 5
The essential syllabus for the aspiring, contemporary pianist. Piano Grade 5 will provide you with everything you need for your Grade 5 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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A Thousand Miles Track 1 of 6£3.99
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Dangerous Track 2 of 6£3.99
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Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Track 3 of 6£3.99
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Life On Mars Track 4 of 6£3.99
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Teardrop Track 5 of 6£3.99
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You've Got A Friend In Me 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
- Downloadable audio
- Fact files
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- Ear Tests
- Technical Exercises
- Sight Reading Examples
- Improvisation and Interpretation Examples
- General Musicianship Questions
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- The Police - 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic'
- David Guetta feat. Sam Martin - 'Dangerous'
- Lyle Lovett and Randy Newman - 'You’ve Got A Friend In Me'
- David Bowie - 'Life On Mars'
- Vanessa Carlton - 'A Thousand Miles'
- Massive Attack - 'Teardrop'
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Technical Exercises
- Group A - Scales
- Group B - Arpeggios
- Group C - Chord Voicings
- Group D - Technical Studies
Unseen Tests
- Sight Reading
- Improvisation & Interpretation
- Ear Tests (Test 1: Melodic Recall, Test 2: Harmonic Recall)
- General Musicianship Questions
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Pages 27–31
Dangerous
Bar 8: The tie between beats 3 and 4 has been removed, and the rhythm of beat 4 changed to eighth note, 16th note, 16th note (pitch, all B, remains the same).
Bars 47 & 49: The rhythm of beat 3 has been changed to eighth note, 16th note, 6th note. The note pitches (A, G, E) remain the same. (Updated 10 August 2020)
Pages 33-38
Life On Mars? - Bar 9, beats 3 & 4: All A natural notes changed to A flat.
Bar 22, beat 3: F note moved to G.
Bar 23, beats 3 & 4: All E naturals moved to E flat. (Updated 10 August 2020)
Pages 46 - 53
Technical Exercises: Group A Scales, 17. Chromatic Scale
The text for this exercise has been updated to "starting on any white key chosen by the examiner, example given in B (three octaves, two octave example shown)" (Updated 2 July 2019)
Pages 39 - 44
You Got A Friend In Me
Bar 44, beat 3: The diad in the lower voice (D and F#) has been removed.Bar 45, Beat 1&: The three note Eb9 chord (G, Db and F) has been moved to beat 2. (Updated 2 July 2019)
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