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Topic: Is anyone here from Australia, and has done or is doing 6th grade AMEB piano?  (Read 1294 times)

Offline clef

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Can you please tell me what scales you need to do for grade 6  :)

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according to my ameb syllabus book it says F#, Bb, Eb and Ab in major, melodic and harmonic minor, chromatics, all in 4 octaves, contrary motion. and staccato 6ths HS starting on E and C-2 octaves. plus arpeggios- 4 octaves
shouldn't your teacher have told you??
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I dont have a lesson until next wednesday and i wanted to supprise her by already knowing them, thanks alot, one last question, what is an HS?

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oooh very impressive! HS is hands seperately
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I dont have a lesson until next wednesday and i wanted to supprise her by already knowing them, thanks alot, one last question, what is an HS?

my dream student....learning all their scales voluntarily..

BTW as a heads up, by now, most of these scales will be a walk in the park for you, but F# minor and Ab minor in contrary motion tend to be the ones which students, in my experience, have found a little trickier!

good luck

dmk
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