Scales and arpeggios
Grade 4 lifts speed (♩ ≈ 92), adds dominant-seventh broken-chord work, and asks for chromatic contrary motion. Scales remain two-octave hands separately; arpeggios stay two-octave.
What this grade asks for
Section
Scales (hands separately, two octaves)
Major and minor (harmonic or melodic).
- C, G, D, A, E major
- F, B♭, E♭ major
- A, E, B, D, G, C minor
Section
Contrary-motion scales
Hands together, two octaves — including the chromatic on D.
- C, G, D major
- Chromatic starting on D
Section
Arpeggios (hands separately, two octaves)
Root-position arpeggios in the listed major and minor keys.
Section
Dominant 7ths (broken chord)
Hands separately, resolving on the tonic, in the keys of C, G, F.