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Grade 1 - First Term
- The treble Clef and the Bass Clef, information practice a knowledge.
- The Understanding and familiarization of Stave, the purpose of it and how to write your first musical notes.
- Time signatures and what Rhythm is and its importance.
- Further details on time signature, the value of beats of each note and the time value of the rest.
- Ties and Dots, its importance and how they shape the music structure.
- Accidentals, sharps, flats, and natural, how they affect the pitch of the note.
Grade 1 - Second Term
- What the Scale is and the benefit, an understanding of Tones and Semitones and how they relate to the instrument we are playing.
- Key signature and tonality, with detail work on accidental marking and natural signs.
- Learning the first Scales: C-G-D-F major with its Arpeggios
- What is an Interval
- Degrees of the Scale
Grade 1 - Third Term
- Chords and tonic triad, thorough exercises
- Learning First chords of the scales, C, G, D, A
- Composition exercises with rhythms and original melodies
- Reading exercises and Ledger lines
- Performance directions
- More details on intervals
Grade 2 - First Term
Revision of intervals, solid work and understanding.What is a major and minor keyLeading notesMore Rhythms, various time signaturesTriplets
Grade 2 - Second Term
- Major keys with sharps and flats
- How to write key signatures
- Grouping notes
- More details on composing a melodic line
- Writing a scale, understanding the meaning of ascending and descending and exercises in this topic
Grade 2 - Third Term
- Minor Keys with sharps and flats
- Intervals, analytical work
- Performance directions from various languages
- Composing rhythms and what is an imitation
Grade 3 - First Term
- Revision of previous grades!
- More time signatures and time values
- Demisemiquavers and Pauses
- Transposition
- Ledger lines, high and low notes
Grade 3 - Second Term
- Compound time
- Keys/Scales with four sharp or flats
- More practice on scales
- Analysis of minors, harmonic and melodic
- Writing more key signatures
