UKULELE Grade 6

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Please note the new and updated Ukulele syllabus below is valid from June 2014.
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UKULELE GRADE 6

What’s Involved?
Up To 75 Marks For
 You are required to play THREE pieces (each one attracts 25 marks)You can elect to play:

  • all three pieces from those listed within our syllabus
  • OR you can opt for three pieces of your own choice (*please find guidance in ‘Own Choice’ Zone)
  • OR you can mix repertoire featuring in our syllabus list combined with pieces of your own choice (*again please visit ‘Own Choice’ Zone for guidance)
Up To 10 Marks For
 RHYTHM OR TECHNIQUE

RHYTHM
From SWINGING’ JAZZ UKULELE 12 GREAT SONGS OF THE ‘20s and ‘30s, ISBN: 10: 0-7390-6469-X

Play a medium swing rhythm to the song ‘IT HAD TO BE YOU’
(* candidates opting for the rhythm option are welcome to perform this with a second player providing the lead/melody line or if preferred they can use a pre-recording of the lead/melody line)

OR instead

TECHNIQUE
From:  HAL LEONARD BLUES UKULELE (ISBN: 978-1-4584-2271-2)

Play any two of the following:

  1. Track 12, 13 and 15 (pages 14, 15)
  2. Play the minor pentatonic scales Cm, Gm, and Am, two inversions (page 20)
  3. Play the major pentatonic scales C, G, A, E and D (page 21)
Up to 15 Marks for
 MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE
The candidate will be asked by the examiner to discuss five of the following area’s of underpinning musical knowledge:

  1. Four types of cadences and the chord progression which make up each cadence
  2. The construction of both the dominant and major seventh chords
  3. Intervals within the harmonic minor scale
  4. Name the triads/chords formed on each degree of the harmonic minor scale
  5. Sequences
  6. The construction of major and minor pentatonic scales
Playing Skills Guide For This Grade
 RANGE
Use of frets up to and including 10-14

TECHNIQUE
Slurs and slides / hammer-ons and pull offs / double stops / vibrato

IN ADDITION
Blues and Classical styles / four note chords / quaver rests
CORE SYLLABUS PIECES FOR UKULELE GRADE 6
 Piece(s)
 Book
 ISBN Number
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
 musicnotes.com MN0091356
IT DON’T MEAN A THING
 SWINGING’ JAZZ UKULELE 12 GREAT SONGS OF THE ‘20s & ‘30s 10: 0-7390-6469-X
DANNY BOY KEV’s QUICKSTART
FINGERSTYLE UKULELE		 978-1-57424-278-2
RIFF BLUES
(track 36, page 31)
BLUES SOLOS
(track 44, page 37)		 HAL LEONARD BLUES UKULELE 978-1-4584-2271-2
FUR ELISE EASY UKULELE PLAY-ALONG
CLASSICAL HITS FOR UKULELE		 10: 0-7390-8820-3
Click here for ‘OWN CHOICE’ ZONE

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