How do you know what grade you are?

[gyzzzmo]

Because im pretty much a self-taught pianist, i have no clue what grade i am.
Im not going give a list of pieces i play, because you guys dont know HOW i play them and i dont want to look like some bragging kid (i've seen them too much here  ).

In some topic i called myself a grade 8 player with the idea that lvl 1 is a starting pianist and a grade 10 someone who can play everything perfectly. But after looking on an ABRSM site i found out that youre already a grade 8 if you can play Chopin's nocturne op55 no1, wich is pretty easy to my opinion.

Anybody knows how to classify myself?

Thanks,
Gyzzzmo

[ramithediv]

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,27245.0.html

[gyzzzmo]

Nice link, but not very usefull :p I'm not going to pay money to do exams to get officially a grade..
Im just interested in how i can find out wich pieces you need to play for wich grade. The examinators very likely also use a list like that.... Anybody knows?

[ramithediv]

Nice link, but not very usefull :p I'm not going to pay money to do exams to get officially a grade..
Im just interested in how i can find out wich pieces you need to play for wich grade. The examinators very likely also use a list like that.... Anybody knows?

It depends.

https://www.abrsm.org/resources/pianoComplete0608.pdf

Try that .

[gyzzzmo]

I've already been to that site, there's where i got my info about what you need for grade 8, the highest grade according to ABRSM. But to be honost, the pieces on that list are pretty low level to my opinion. Is there a grade system wich also supports higher lvl pieces?

[ramithediv]

I've already been to that site, there's where i got my info about what you need for grade 8, the highest grade according to ABRSM. But to be honost, the pieces on that list are pretty low level to my opinion. Is there a grade system wich also supports higher lvl pieces?

Well why don't you find it yourself then. 

Anyway, back to original question. 

Anybody knows how to classify myself?

Hard to help, as you seem to know everything already. 

[gyzzzmo]

Well, the funny thing is that so many people here play high lvl pieces. Chopin etudes, sonatas, balades, Liszt campanella's, un sospiro's, transcedental etudes.... There must be a classification for people who perform way better than the ABRSM gradation. Cause according to that gradation, there arent many people on this forum who are NOT grade 8 :p

Btw, ofcourse thank you for your reply, but if you would have read my intropost you would already have known that i know about the ABRSM

gyzzzmo

[amelialw]

here, this goes beyond grade 8
https://www.abrsm.org/resources/perfDip05Complete.pdf

[gyzzzmo]

here, this goes beyond grade 8
https://www.abrsm.org/resources/perfDip05Complete.pdf

I love you amelialw  , thanks for the link.

[ramithediv]

I love you amelialw  , thanks for the link.

Seems very strange that you, who from your original post

But after looking on an ABRSM site

had searched the ABRSM site, had not managed to find that yourself. duh. 

As it was what you seemed to be looking for all along.

[gyzzzmo]

Seems very strange that you, who from your original post

had searched the ABRSM site, had not managed to find that yourself. duh. 

As it was what you seemed to be looking for all along.

You sound abit frustrated.... ill try to comfort by explaining it so you wont end up as a terrorist:
As i said in my intropost, i had heard about ABRSM grades, thats all. And the pdf file i found was full of easy pianopieces, even grade 8. Wich was the same page as you gave me. How could i know ABRSM gradings are only part of a bigger grading system: ABRSM, dipBRSM, LRSM and another?
So your link was useless for me because it was about that same ABRSM again. Amelialw's link did give me the info though wich i thanked her for.

Keep your shirt on and dont hide bombs under it.

Gyzzzmo

[ramithediv]

ill try to comfort by explaining it so you wont end up as a terrorist:

Keep your shirt on and dont hide bombs under it.

Gyzzzmo

These 2 particular statements appear to be rather racist.   

And thats not very nice, is it   

I would not say anything bad about the nice Dutch people.

[gyzzzmo]

These 2 particular statements appear to be rather racist.   

And thats not very nice, is it   

I would not say anything bad about the nice Dutch people.

You sound like extremely dull and without any sense of humor. Also you should check a dictionary and find out when something is racism and when not.

[ramithediv]

You sound like extremely dull and without any sense of humor.

I love this place. 

I am always amazed how well others can tell my personality so accurately. 

[gyzzzmo]

Well, do you really think then that im a racist because i make a joke about a terrorist?
If you really think so, its not strange that i think you have a total lack of humor wich would make you dull  . I dont know your personality, but you're A: making inmense problems of nothing (this was about grades, remember?) and B youre definitely lacking the 'funny genes'

[ramithediv]

(this was about grades, remember?)

Yes, sorry. 

'funny genes'

These must be a dutch fashion item. Something they smoke, I believe. 

[bhowerter]

LOLs!!!

[dss62467]

So I'm just reading through this post, which looks like it went WAY off on a tangeant.... but wow, I'm very glad I never had the pressure of putting a grade on myself.   I suppose that's because I had a very mediocre instructor for years 3 - 6, then didn't click with the one I had for year 7.  LOVE the instructor I have now, 20+ years later.  He's very good, and we have so much fun playing together, but I play strictly for the enjoyment it gives me.  That enjoyment comes from making music (of course), but also the mental stimulation - this is GREAT for your brain!   However, my very favorite thing to do with the piano is to stop at the local wine superstore, pick up a nice bottle of wine, and spend my evening practicing.  Perhaps that's why I quit when I was 16....

To put pressure on it would ruin the whole experience.  For me anyway.  Then again, I'm woefully noncompetitive. 

I guess my question for the very serious pianists out there is.... does it really matter to you if you meet someone who plays what their level is?  I suppose if you're out for the same job, it does, but isn't it more fun to just have a conversation about what you love and if you can tell you're better than the other person, encourage them and give them advice without being a snob?   Maybe it's me, but when I find people at work that aren't to my level on databases - I show them some tricks.  Smiles all around.