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Analysing an extract

Questions 4 and 5 carry half the marks of the paper. This unit works through a printed extract the way an examiner reads one: every chord in context, every kind of cadence, the notes outside the chord, and the shape and rhythm of the melody.

Start with Harmonic analysis, chord by chord. In 18 minutes you will be able to name any chord in a printed extract from its notes on every stave, with its position.

Lessons

  1. Harmonic analysis, chord by chord
  2. Cadences in context
  3. Notes outside the chord
  4. Melodic features
  5. Rhythmic features
  6. A whole extract, in the time

Practise and test

Follows the ABRSM syllabus. ABRSM is a trade mark of its owner; Brainlag is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ABRSM. Every example and question is original. Results are Brainlag estimates, not exam results.