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The ABRSM Grade 8 Piano Scales & Arpeggios book contains all the scales and arpeggios that you will need to know for your ABRSM piano grade 8 exam.
Everything you need for your ABRSM Grade 8 Piano scales test
As part of your ABRSM grade 8 piano exam, you will be asked to play some piano scales from memory. The ABRSM Grade 8 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 8 piano exam. All of the scales in the ABRSM Grade 8 Piano Scales and Broken Chords book are printed in appropriate time and key signatures, with (optional) fingering suggestions:
- Scales (similar motion)in C, D, B, F#, F, Eb, Ab/G#, Db/C# majors & minors (minors both harmonic andmelodic), legato or staccato as directed by the examiner, hands together andseparately, 4 octaves
- Scales a third apart in the keys above (majors & harmonic minors only), legato or staccato as directed by the examiner, hands together, 4 octaves
- Scales a sixth apart in the keys above (majors & harmonic minors only), legato or staccato as directed by the examiner, hands together, 4 octaves
- Legato scale in thirds C and Bb majors, hands separately, 2 octaves
- Chromatic scales a minor third apart beginning on any notes named by the examiner, legato or staccato as directed by the examiner, hands together, 4 octaves
- Chromatic scales in minor thirds beginning on A#/C#, legato, hands separately, 2 octaves
- Whole-tone scale beginning on E, legato, hands together and separately, 2 octaves
- Arpeggios in the same keys as the similar motion scales, legato, hands together and separately, in root position, first and second inversion, 4 octaves
- Dominant sevenths in the same keys as the similar motion scales, legato, hands together and separately, 4 octaves
- Diminished sevenths beginning on any note given by the examiner, legato, hands together and separately, 4 octaves
The sections of your exam
Your ABRSM grade 8 piano exam is made up of four sections: a short test of these scales and arpeggios (in this ABRSM Grade 8 Piano Scales and Arpeggios book), three pieces chosen by you from the ABRSM Piano Grade 8 pieces book, sight-reading, and aural tests. For more info about ABRSM exams, please visit our ABRSM exams guide!