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Exams/Sight-reading/RSL · Grade 4

Sight-reading

Twelve to sixteen bars, modal flavours, blues inflections, contemporary articulation.

Practice tips for this grade

  • Scan for any blues notes (♭3, ♭7) — they shape the colour.

  • Read chord symbols and printed notes together — they reinforce each other.

  • Lock into the implied groove on bar one; never drift.

RSL — other grades

RSL Grade 4 piano sight-reading — Bristol Piano