Grade 3 Music Theory ABRSM

The course includes:

• Compound time signatures of 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 and the grouping of notes within
them

• The demisemiquaver/32nd note and rest

• Transposition of a melody from treble to bass clef (or vice versa) at the octave

• Scales and key signatures in all keys up to four flats/sharps

• Major, minor harmonic and minor melodic scales

• Tonic triads in the keys for this grade

• Intervals above the tonic by number and quality

• Musical foreign terms and symbols

•Accidentals

Notation •Note Values and the Demisemiquaver (32nd note)

4 Lessons •Rest Values and the Whole Bar Rest

•Dotted Notes

•Major Scales
Scales and Key
•Minor Harmonic Scales
6 Lessons
•Minor Melodic Scales

•Key Signatures

•Tonic Triads (Revision from Grade 2)

 •Time Signatures
Time
•Beaming
4 Lessons
•Adding Rests

•Triplets

•Intervals
Intervals and
Transposition •Transposition

2 Lessons

•Foreign TermS
Performance
Directions •Articulation