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Exams/Sight-reading/RSL · Grade 6

Sight-reading

Up to twenty-four bars, jazz harmonic vocabulary, comping textures, walking bass figures.

Practice tips for this grade

  • Look for II-V-I patterns; they recur and they're easy to spot.

  • Comp lightly when the printed line is the melody — don't crowd it.

  • Rhythmic precision in syncopation is the difference at this grade.

RSL — other grades

RSL Grade 6 piano sight-reading — Bristol Piano