Graded Piano

[gradedpiano]

Hi, i have been playing keyboard for a few years now and i am at a grade 3 standard. I have recently been learning to play the piano, playing both the treble and bass clef. I can play a variety of pieces that range in Grades. I was wanting to start playing Grades and wondered what Grade i should start on. Can anyone help me out?

[becky8898]

Hi : im not sure what your talking about , but maybe get a teacher or get a teacher to listen to you. You said you where at grade 3 but then you said what grade should you be at.  Im confused. Anyway - explain more and maybe you can get a better answer.  Best of luck with your studies.

Cheers, Becky

[gradedpiano]

Sorry I should have been clearer. When i play keyboard its a lot different to piano. With keyboard there was only one clef (the treble clef) that I would play and it would then instruct me on with chords to play above the music. Now that i play piano i have to play 2 clefs (bass and treble) When playing Grade 3 keyboard i was introduced to he bass clef a little. Should i just move on to grade 4?

[jimbo320]

I'm confused as to why you said keyboard has only the treble clef. The only difference between the keyboard and the piano is the instrument. What about digital pianos? The organ?
Unless you're talking about a keyboard with so few keys that there's no middle C. Then you're talking about a keyboard more for sound effects and a like.

[bachbyte]

If you want to be able to play piano properly, you definitely need to be able to read Bass clef properly, if you try and move on quickly without learning bass clef you will definitely regret it later. As instruments there is very little that is different between piano and keyboard so perhaps you mean that when you learnt keyboard the only thing that you worked on was chords etc in treble clef? A lot of piano is technique work such as scales and arpeggios so before you move on to grade 4 you should make sure that you can do a lot of scales and stuff first. Also you will have to follow your own feelings about which grades to do, and whether you want to do grades at all (you don't have to). If you're not sure, start with grade 3 ish pieces and then work up slowly - don't start with something too hard because you will spend extra long playing it and it won't help you in the long term.
Hope this helps! Good luck... 

[gradedpiano]

thank you thats really helped me