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About Music Theory ABRSM Grade 3 Complete
*** UPDATED for the 2018 ABRSM Syllabus Changes ***
The third level of ABRSM Music Theory exams is ideal for anyone who has a fair understanding of scales, keys and time signatures that are reasonably simple.
At grade 3, we delve deeper into the slightly more complex topics such as keys with up to 4 flats or sharps in them, harmonic and melodic minor scales, and simple and compound time signatures (6/8, 9/8 and 12/8).
We'll also review some of the topics from the lower grades which cause the most difficulty, such as beaming notes together in groups.
Please note that the grade 3 course/syllabus overlaps with grade 2, so we will also review some topics from grade 2 (those that normally cause the most confusion!)
The course includes:
Reference materials include all the foreign terms you need for grade 3, including those learned at grades 1 and 2, as the syllabus is cumulative, plus complete examples of all scales in both treble and bass clefs.
What You Will Learn?
- Take and pass ABRSM grade 3 music theory with confidence.
- Compound time signatures of 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 and the grouping of notes within them.
- The demisemiquaver/32nd note and rest.
- Composition of a 4-bar rhythm from a given opening.
- Transposition of a melody from treble to bass clef (or vice versa) at the octave.
- Scales and key signatures in all keys up to four flats/sharps.
- Major, minor harmonic and minor melodic scales.
- Tonic triads in the keys for this grade.
- Intervals above the tonic by number and quality.
- Musical foreign terms and symbols.