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Ear Test Format

I am preparing a student for his Grade 5 practical piano exam. In the Ear Test portion of the exam the student must identify a cadential chord progression of I-IV-I or I-V-I. Does the examiner play a few bars of music and then do the cadential progression or does the examiner simply play the cadential progression and then the student must identify it?

Answer

RCM Staff

Monday, June 15, 2020

at 4:10 PM

Students will be asked to identify chord progressions in major keys as I-IV-I or I-V-I after the examiner has played the progression twice. The progression will be played in keyboard style, and the bass line will ascend from the tonic.

Piano Syllabus, 2015 Edition, page 50.

Monday, June 15, 2020

at 4:10 PM