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Teaching Notes

The New ABRSM Piano Syllabus 2019/20
Published 7th June 2018.


This page will be a resource for students and teachers taking the  Piano Exams, including teaching notes and video tutorials. Please note this is an ongoing process so return regularly to check for updates - and if there are any particular pieces you want covered here, please send me a request via the comments section below.


Teaching notes and Video Tutorials will appear next to the pieces below as they are uploaded

Grade 1



Audio Samples - Short excerpts from the ABRSM Grade 1 Piano Syllabus to help you choose which pieces you want to play for your exam. (Full tracks cannot be offered due to copyright)


Slow Practice Tracks for all Grade 1 Pieces listed below
Available for Offline download

Teaching Notes and VideoTutorials


A1 Attwood - Theme
Teaching Notes


A2 Duncombe - Minuet in C 

Video Tutorial   Teaching Notes

A3 Anon. - English Agincourt Song


B1 Brahms Wiegenlied 

Teaching Notes

B2 Oesten - The Echo 

Teaching Notes

B3 Swinstead - The Lonely Road 

Video Tutorial

C1 Ian King - Happy Day 

Video Tutorial   Student Appraisal

C2 J. M. Last - Who Said Mice? 

Teaching Notes

C3 Kevin Wooding - The Egyptian Level 

Teaching Notes


Grade 2



Audio Samples - Short excerpts from the ABRSM Grade 2 Piano Syllabus to help you choose which pieces you want to play for your exam. (Full tracks cannot be offered due to copyright)


Slow Practice Tracks for all Grade 2 Pieces listed below
Available for Offline download.


A1 Diabelli - Lesson in C 
Video Tutorial

A2 Anon. - Musette in D 

Teaching Notes

A3 Telemann - Gigue à l’Angloise 

Teaching Notes

B1 Burgmüller - Arabesque 

Video Tutorial

B2 Kabalevsky - Waltz

Teaching Notes

B3 Vitalij Neugasimov - Lazy Bear 

Teaching Notes

C1 June Armstrong - Dusty Blue 

Video Tutorial

C2 B. Carleton - Ja-Da 

Teaching Notes

C3 Brian Chapple - Petite Valse 

Teaching Notes


Grade 3



Audio Samples - Short excerpts from the ABRSM Grade 3 Piano Syllabus to help you choose which pieces you want to play for your exam. (Full tracks cannot be offered due to copyright)



A1 Hook - Allegro 
Video Tutorial

A2 Seixas - Giga

Teaching Notes

A3 M. Praetorius - Bransle de la torche

Teaching Notes   Student Appraisal

B1 W. Carroll - Shadows

Teaching Notes

B2 Gurlitt - Allegretto grazioso

Teaching Notes

B3 Reinecke - Prelude 

Video Tutorial


C1 Bartók - Dance
Teaching Notes

C2 R. R. Bennett - Diversion

Teaching Notes

C3 Nikki Iles Blues in the Attic

Video Tutorial

Slow Practice Track
Available for Offline Download


Grade 4



Audio Samples - Short excerpts from the ABRSM Grade 4 Piano Syllabus to help you choose which pieces you want to play for your exam. (Full tracks cannot be offered due to copyright)



A1 Beethoven - Bagatelle in C
Teaching Notes    FREE Sheet Music

A2 Benda - Sonatina in A minor

Video Tutorial


A3 Telemann - Petit jeu
Teaching Notes

B1 W. Carroll - The Reef

Teaching Notes

B2 Grieg - Arietta
Teaching Notes

B3 Elgar - Chanson de matin

Video Tutorial  Student Appraisal

C1 Gillock - Holiday in Paris 

Video Tutorial

C2 Richard Michael - A Kwela for Caitlin
Teaching Notes

C3 Luboš Sluka - Rytmická

Teaching Notes


Grade 5



Audio Samples - Short excerpts from the ABRSM Grade 5 Piano Syllabus to help you choose which pieces you want to play for your exam. (Full tracks cannot be offered due to copyright)



A1 J. S. Bach - Aria
Teaching Notes

A2 Haydn - Andante in A
Teaching Notes

A3 Jean Baptiste Loeillet - Minuetto

Video Tutorial

B1 T. Kirchner - Plauderei

Video Tutorial

B2 Farrenc - Étude in A minor

Teaching Notes

B3 Sibelius - Joueur de harpe

Teaching Notes

C1 Lutosławski - Rektor

Teaching Notes

C2 Prokofiev - Lentamente

Teaching Notes

C3 Mike Cornick - Film Noir 

Video Tutorial


Grade 6

A1 T. A. Arne - Andante
Teaching Notes
Audio Download

A2 J. S. Bach - Fugue in G
Teaching Notes

A3 J. L. Dussek - Allegro

Video Tutorial

B1 Bruch - Moderato

Teaching Notes

B2 Chopin - Prelude in B minor

Video Tutorial      FREE Sheet Music - all 24 Preludes
Audio Download

B3 Schubert - Scherzo in Bb

Teaching Notes

C1 Darius Brubeck - Tugela Rail

Teaching Notes

C2 Ibert - Sérénade sur l’eau

Video Tutorial

C3 Federico Ruiz - Un amanecer en Santa Marta

Teaching Notes
Audio Download



Grade 7

A1 Handel - Gigue
Teaching Notes 
Audio Download

A2 Haydn - Tempo di Minuetto

A3 Mozart - Andante
Video Tutorial

B1 Delibes - Passepied
Video Tutorial

B2 Mendelssohn - Lied ohne Worte
Teaching Notes
Audio Download

B3 
Parry - Elizabeth
Teaching Notes

C1 R. R. Bennett - Rosemary’s Waltz
Video Tutorial

C2 Prokofiev - Ridicolosamente
Teaching Notes
Audio Download

C3 Cheryl Frances-Hoad - Commuterland


Grade 8

A1 J. S. Bach - Sarabande and Gigue
Teaching Notes

A2 D. Scarlatti - Sonata in D

Teaching Notes

A3 Shostakovich - Prelude and Fugue in A minor

B1 C. P. E. Bach - Un poco allegro

B2 Beethoven - Presto alla tedesca

Teaching Notes    FREE SHEET MUSIC   Student Appraisal


B3 Schubert - Allegro moderato
Teaching Notes

C1 Chopin - Nocturne in G minor
Teaching Notes    FREE SHEET MUSIC

C2 Debussy - Voiles

A Student Appraisal (demonstrating the ABRSM mark Scheme)  FREE SHEET MUSIC

C3 Nikolay Kapustin - Sonatina

Teaching Notes  Slow Practice Audio Track

C4 Martinů - Prélude en forme de Danse

C5 Rachmaninoff - Elégie

Teaching Notes

C6 Raymond Yiu - Lullaby

Teaching Notes


Because of Intellectual Property copyright law we are allowed to make video tutorials/audio recordings on only one third of the syllabus, since the syllabus itself is considered "Intellectual Property"

However there will be teaching notes, written by myself (or in collaboration with other trusted quality Channels) on the pieces based on my own teaching experience and these will appear alongside the titles listed above. All teaching notes will contain references to a video, whether on the MusicOnline UK YouTube channel or another, which is deemed to be of  good 
performance quality. (You will find NO Alan Chan here)

Updated 23/09/2019

6 comments:

  1. I like "you will find NO Alan Chan here". From the very first day he published his video, I already warn my students never never learn the way he play. I'm so grateful that now we have music online which perform and teach professionally. Thank you so much. Hope to see more higher grade pieces coming out soon.

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    1. Thank you for your support. The best way we can re-educate students to learn correctly is to share quality content with them. I'm sure you already do this with your students. Regarding the higher grade pieces, yes they are on the way, but as we discussed, here you will find quality, not mass produced quantity, which takes "longer than three days to upload the entire ABRSM syllabus" just to get "1st in search". Your patience and support is appreciated, were there any particular pieces you were waiting for?

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  2. Grade 6 A3 (Allegro).
    What if I play sort of rubato in bar 66?

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  3. A slight leaning on the 3rd beat? It could work, but ever so slight as the brilliance of the Allegro tempo would need to come through.

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  4. G7 B3 Parry - Elizabeth

    Please.

    Really value your tutorials so sad this one is missing.

    Tanya

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