![]() If you can more or less play with comfort, say, the Grade 5 pieces from the ABRSM syllabus, then you must be more or less a Grade 5 player. To other players who may not be interested in the exams per se, the grade requirements (particularly, the repertoire material) is a good guide to gauge their own standing as a guitarist. It is about earning their formal stripes, a recognized qualification. It tells them where they stand and what remains to be accomplished. ![]() Why bother with grades at all for the classical guitar? To serious students with definite career goals, passing grades is a way of making objective progress. For all the differences in the curriculum of these major music schools, there are by and large remarkable similarities too. Grades not only assess a student’s ability to play pieces of repertoire suited to that grade but also other aspects of musicality like technical exercises, aural tests, sight-reading and the like. (The exception is RCM of Canada, which has ten grades.) Typically, there are eight grades with even higher level professional studies possible. These institutions award certificates for proficiency at various grades or levels.
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