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Syllabus Overview

Piano/Keyboard Grade 2

Piano

6-8 months

Goals

  • Certification : Finish a certificate course, and take an exam with Trinity College London.
    For more details on the exam, visit Trinity College London's Piano Page.

  • Performance : Prepare for competitions/stage performances/events based on your level of skill. When you're ready, record at the studio.

  • Social Playing : Learn techniques that you can use, on popular pieces/songs at this level, to play along with friends, etc., at social events and gatherings.

Concepts Covered

Knowledge, technique from Piano Grade One is required. 

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Finger Technique ONE (13 exercises covering the following): ​

  • Accents.

  • Accent shifts.

  • Trills.

  • 1-5 exercise (all keys).

  • Finger independence.

  • Arpeggios.

  • Whole tones.

  • Mirrored exercises.

  • Odd meters

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Finger Technique TWO (60 exercises) :

  • 16th notes

  • Introduction to trills

  • Scales across multiple octaves

  • Finger Independence

  • Staccato chords

  • 6-8 Time-Signature

  • Interchanging clefs in both staves.

  • Three-note chords in both hands

  • Syncopated 8th note rhythms

  • Octave jumps

  • Triplets, Quadruplets and Quintolets

  • Arpeggios with both hands

  • Trills

  • Fingering repeated notes

  • Grace-note (triplets)

  • Chromatic scale in contrary motion

  • Introduction to 32nd-notes

  • Thirds jumps

  • Glissandi

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Sight Reading (78 exercises) : 

  • Natural keys for Left and Right hand.

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Rhythm Reading (26 exercises) :​

  • Common-Time

  • Cut-Time

  • Ties

  • Dotted notes and rests

  • Imaginary barline

  • Eighth-Quarter-Eighths (notes and rests) Rhythm Study

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Improvisation Technique :

  • C minor blues lead

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Comping (2 Exercises)

  • A minor

  • C minor

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Exam Syllabus*

  • Pieces

  • Exercises

  • Musical Knowledge

  • Scales

  • Arpeggios

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