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Exams/Sight-reading/RSL · Grade 7

Sight-reading

Up to twenty-eight bars, advanced jazz harmony, fusion-style writing, contemporary classical idioms.

Practice tips for this grade

  • Read the harmonic skeleton first — extensions are decoration.

  • Pulse over notes — RSL examiners value time-keeping above everything else.

  • Stylistic conviction matters — play it like you mean it.

RSL — other grades

RSL Grade 7 piano sight-reading — Bristol Piano