Keyboard, Piano

Keyboard grade exams are designed to evaluate a student's proficiency in playing the keyboard, including technical skills, musical interpretation, and understanding of music theory.

Grade - 2

THEORY SYLLABUS

Know about some Treble and bass clef instrument ranges.
Advanced treble and bass cleff ledger line notes and exercises.
Advanced note value and rest (dotted crotchet and dotted crotchet rest) and exercises.
Understanding die.
Advanced time signature 3
Advanced minor scales D minor and E minor and scale writing exercises.
Understanding chord inversions (root positions first inversion).
Understanding harmonic minor (A harmonic minor)
Introducing Arpeggio (major scales C, F, G and minor scales Am, Dm, Em)
Understanding musical words and symbols.

PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

Technical Exercises

SCALES AND CHORDS KNOWLEDGE

Scales :E minor & D minor (Natural and Harmonic)
(one octave - Hands together)
Cromatic Scale (controry motion)

Ear Test :Identifying the major and minor Chords.

Arpeggio :E minor & D minor

Sight Reading : NIL

PIECES

1. Swan Lake
2. Hungarian Dance No.5
3. The Country of Happiness

4. Musettee in D
5. Turkish March
6. Caprice no. 24

7. A start for the Journey (Piano)

Grade - 1

THEORY SYLLABUS

Advanced treble and bass clef ledger line notes.
Advanced time signature 3/4 and 4/4
Advanced major scales F and G
Understanding cromatic scale
Tonic triad of F and G major
Scale writing exercises
Understanding Beaming quavers and grouping rests.
Understanding musical words and symbols.

PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

Technical Exercises

SCALES AND CHORDS KNOWLEDGE

Scales :F major & G major (One octave) Cromatic scale similar motion (O ne octave)

Ear Test :Identify the distance between 2 notes simple interval (1 to 5).

Chords :F major & G major (with inversions)

Sight Reading : NIL

PIECES

1. Eline Kleine Nachtmusik - Allegro (K525)
2. Fur Elise
3. Greensleeves

4. Noteswaram Vande Meenakshi
5. The Chaos and the Choices

6. Surprise Symphone in G
7. Melody in C (Piano)

Grade - 3

THEORY SYLLABUS

Advanced major scales (B flat and D) and exercises.
Advanced harmonic minor (Dm and Em)
Understanding melodic minor (Am)
Advanced scale Arpeggios (Bb major and D major)
Understanding transposition
Understanding Arpeggios
Understanding major, minor and perfect intervals.
Advanced time signature 2/2 and 6/8
Understanding musical words and symbols.

PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

Technical Exercises

SCALES AND CHORDS KNOWLEDGE

Scales :D major & B major (One octave) hands together
A melodic minor (One octave) hands together

Ear Test :1. Identifying the chords. (Major - minor - Major or minor - Major - minor).
2. Identifying the major and minor intervals. (Unision, minor 2nd, major 2nd, minor 3rd, major 3rd, perfect 4th and perfect 5th)

Arpeggio :D major & B major (One octave)

Chords F major & G major (with inversions)

Sight Reading :NIL

PIECES

1. Pachelbel Canon in D
2. Sonatina in F
3. Train

4. Waltz in B minor
5. Symphony 40 in A minor

6. Madurai Mani Music
7. Clour Capped (Piano)

Pre Grade

THEORY SYLLABUS

Know about pitch and rhythm
Understanding stave notation, clef sign, Time signature, bar line, double line, repeat sign.
Understanding high and low notes and stem drawing
Understanding note and rest value length, explaining dotted minim and beamed quaver.
Drawing treble and bass clef.
Know about treble and bass clef instruments.
Treble and Bass clef note naming, middle C, and identifying the correct note and clef.
Understanding accidentals and identifying
Understanding and recomposing tone and semitones.
Identifying 'simple' intervals
Identifying scale and intervals.
Writing scale
Understanding basic chord knowledge (Tonic Triad)
Understanding time signature and adding bar lines.
Know about some musical words and symbols.

PRACTICAL SYLLABUS

Technical Exercises

SCALES AND CHORDS KNOWLEDGE

Scales :C major & A minor

Ear Test :C major & A minor (with inversions)

Chords :Identify the distance between 2 notes simple interval (2nd or 3rd).

Sight Reading : NIL

PIECES

1. Amma Inge Va Va
2. Happy Birthday
3. Symbony No.25 4. Lightly Row
5. New Waltz
6. Under The Lime Green
7. Staccato (Piano)