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.