1. basic skills: you need to examine your ability to play scales and arpeggios. With the increase of the grade, the rising and falling marks will gradually increase (10 test is 6 liters or 6 drops), and the speed of scales and arpeggios will gradually increase (10 scale requires playing 144 quarter notes per minute, that is, 565438+).
2. Etudes: It is the best test of your performance. If you learn piano systematically, you can check your level according to the degree of etudes you are learning at present. The following are the grades of Shanghai Music Association 1- 10 (each grade is higher than the first grade of the National Music Association, that is, Shanghai Grade 9 is equivalent to the national Grade 10). You can compare yourself:
Level 1: The whole book of Baie has been learned.
The second level: the first half of Cherny 599.
The third level: the second half of Cherny 599.
Level 4: Cherny 849 has finished the whole book.
The fifth level: the first half of Cherny 299.
Level 6: The level of the second half of Cherny 299.
Level 7: The second half of Franz Klammer's etude or the first half of Cherny 740.
Grade 8: The level of the second half of Cherny 740.
Ninth grade: Mozart's Etudes or Clementine's Poems.
Level 10: Chopin Etudes (OP 10 and OP25)
3. Polyphonic music: Piano grading pays special attention to the performance ability of polyphonic music with multiple voices. What you are talking about is actually a polyphonic work (roughly equivalent to the level of 6-7). Polyphony music is basically based on Bach's works, from Bach's Prelude and Fugue to his two or three creative works to the most difficult collection of Twelve Balanced Piano Music.
4. Music (mainly small music), because considering the time factor of the exam (each person is up to 15 minutes), the music for the grade examination is mainly small works (the proportion between China and foreign countries is roughly equal), and there are many styles. This item mainly examines your musical expression.
The above is the ideological content of the exam. As for the specific works of each level, because the examinations organized by different examination institutions are different, they are also different. For example, the Chinese Music Association is used to producing a set of books (usually ten to eight years), and each level provides you with several works for you to choose (but you can only choose from the tracks specified by him, not from outside the book), such as 10, with five etudes (you can choose one from them). It's actually easier, because you can prepare music for the grade exam at the beginning and practice it well in advance. Even if you fail in the exam once, you can still play what you played last year (just more skillfully) in the second year, which will be of great help to you.
Shanghai Music Association only gives you one song at each level (you have no choice), and the exam tracks are changed once a year (the exam tracks are announced three months before the exam), so you only have two or three months to practice, which is naturally more difficult than the national tracks. Once you fail, the next year's repertoire will be completely changed. It is obvious that the requirements for candidates are much higher to practice the grading examination repertoire again.