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The ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Scales & Arpeggios book contains all the scales and arpeggios that you will need to know for your ABRSM piano grade 4 exam.
Everything you need for your ABRSM Grade 4 Piano scales test
As part of your ABRSM grade 4 piano exam, you will be asked to play some piano scales from memory. The ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Scales book contains all the scales and arpeggios you will need to know for your exam, along with a useful information page at the front of the book about: the benefits of practising scales, useful information about pitch, tempo, fingering, and how you will be tested/what the examiner will be looking for on the day of your grade 4 piano exam. All of the scales in the ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Scales and Broken Chords book are printed in appropriate time and key signatures, with (optional) fingering suggestions:
- Scales (similar motion) in B, Bb, Eb, Ab & Db majors, and C#, G#, C & F minors (harmonic ormelodic at candidate’s choice), hands together and separately, 2 octaves
- Contrary-motion scales inF & Eb majors and D & C harmonic minors, hands beginning on the key-note (in unison), 2 octaves
- Chromatic scales beginning on any black key named by the examiner, hands separately and together, 2 octaves
- Arpeggios inB, Bb, Eb, Ab & Db majors and C#, G#, C & F minors, hands together and separately, 2 octaves
The sections of your exam
Your ABRSM grade 4 piano exam is made up of four sections: a short test of these scales and arpeggios (in this ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Scales and Arpeggios book), three pieces chosen by you from the ABRSM Piano Grade 4 pieces book, sight-reading, and aural tests. For more info about ABRSM exams, please visit our ABRSM exams guide!