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Offline wildman

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Grade these pieces
on: July 26, 2011, 06:06:05 AM
Some of these pieces might be too hard to grade?
Anyways, it might be hard to grade some of these since they're jazz and may not be officially graded, so maybe we could use our own judgement.

Just curious...

Fur Elise
Moonlight Sonata, movement 1, 2, 3
Bach's Goldberg Variations
Liszt La Campanella
Mozart's 12 variations ("twinkle little star")
Prokofiev, Suggestion Diabolique
Rach 3 (better entitled as "Mach 3," lol)
Islamey by Balakirev
Flight of the Bumblebee by Rachmaninoff
Flight of the Bumblebee by Cziffra
Chopin, Octave Etude
Chopin, Fantaisie Imromptu (can anyone give me a reason why this is so cliched as a hard piece?)
Chopin, Minuet Waltz
Bach, Toccata & Fugue

The Entertainer, Scott Joplin
Fingerbreaker, Jelly Roll Morton
Fingerbuster, Willie The Lion Smith
Handful of Keys, Fats Waller
Maple Leaf Rag, Scott Joplin
Tea for Two, Art Tatum
Tiger Rag, Art Tatum

...so, any ideas?
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Offline pianoviolin

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Re: Grade these pieces
Reply #1 on: July 26, 2011, 01:34:53 PM
jazz...? you might want to get your facts right ;)
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Offline wildman

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Re: Grade these pieces
Reply #2 on: July 26, 2011, 04:09:15 PM
Quote from: pianoviolin on July 26, 2011, 01:34:53 PM
jazz...? you might want to get your facts right ;)

These aren't simply the songs themselves, these are arrangements done by jazz pianists. Now "what would be their grade if you learned it by note"?
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Offline sasha_organ

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Re: Grade these pieces
Reply #3 on: July 28, 2011, 01:08:39 PM
La Campanella is LTCL,
Moonlight was grade 8 I think?
Fur Elise is very easy...

You can find all of those in ABRSM or Trinity syllabuses if you are interested :)
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Offline quantum

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Re: Grade these pieces
Reply #4 on: July 28, 2011, 01:42:01 PM
A lot of these are on the RCM syllabus. 
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Re: Grade these pieces
Reply #5 on: July 30, 2011, 01:52:40 AM
Sorry, but I'm not familiar with piano grading so much. I've spent less than 2 years in piano, most of which isn't done in schools. So, can someone please familiarize what "RCM" or "LTCL" is? What's the ranking?
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