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Exams/Sight-reading/ABRSM · Grade 7

Sight-reading

Up to twenty-eight bars, three-stave-style writing implied (inner voices), wide range of keys including remote modulations, advanced articulation marks.

Practice tips for this grade

  • Look for sequences and motivic repetition — they are gifts to the eye.

  • Pencil mentally — note where your eye must jump for clef changes.

  • Cantabile is more important than perfection. Make the line sing.

ABRSM — other grades

ABRSM Grade 7 piano sight-reading — Bristol Piano