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What grade would this piece be?? #1912949 06/13/12 04:20 PM
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 195 London Firefinch OP Full Member
OP Firefinch Full Member Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 195 London	What grade would this piece of piano music be? My friend wanted to know. http://soundcloud.com/firefinch/fly-baby Last edited by Firefinch; 06/13/12 06:45 PM.

Re: What grade would this piece be?? Firefinch #1913115 06/13/12 08:55 PM
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,496 Virginia, USA A Andy Platt 2000 Post Club Member
Andy Platt 2000 Post Club Member A Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,496 Virginia, USA	If you wanted to play it as smoothly and with fast runs as the recording, you would have to play to a grade 7 or 8 standard. Technical difficulty at a slower tempo might be 5 or 6. A lot of those runs are way faster than I could do smoothly and I have played technically harder pieces (I'm guessing, sometimes technical difficulties don't show until your hands are on the keys). Debussy - Le Petit NÃ¨gre, L. 114 Haydn - Sonata in Gm, Hob. XVI/44 Kawai K3