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Name
Date
Unit/Crit
eria
Teacher

Holly Martlew
5th May 2016
Unit 311 Criteria 2.3
Miss Bowater

Strengths
You have created a musically successful16bar chord progression using a mode of
the harmonic scale.

Your chords work really well together and you have thought about the
practical setting of your piece rather than just using block chords.

I am not able to grade this at the moment as there is no alt.chord

(sus2/sus4/add9 etc.) in your chord progression. This is part of the criteria
and must be added for me to give it a grade. Once you add this chord
your work will be at a merit. See below on how to push it up to a
distinction.
Improvements

Indicate in the title what key and mode you have used (this saves the
examiner working it out)
Add an alt. chord
Bar 7 - # the F
Bar 10 the chord in the right hand is to big i struggled to play it and have
quite large hands.
Bar 11 - # the F (you can get away with this being a non-diatonic chord if
you dont want to sharpen the F)
Bar 12 - # the F
Bar 13 - # the F (LH)
Bar 15 - # the F (LH)
I am not sure about the chord progression from chord ii to I at the
end. Have a look at this and see if you can find a chord that fits a
little better. Remember you are emphasising the modal tonic
rather than the key tonic.
Bar 10 I am also not sure on this chord is there another chord
that would work better here?

Current
Grade

Not Yet
Achieved

Pass

Merit

Distinction

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