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Jazz Flute
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Specimen Sight-Reading
Progressive Teaching Guide
This grid is cumulative and assumes that at each grade the requirements of the previous grades are also included.
Slight deviations from the grid may be encountered but demands will be well within the standard for the grade.

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Grade Time Signatures Key Signatures Rhythm Dynamics

1 24 34 44 V# Vb i i i h h.
tr q p mf

h. i
2 C V ## i. ie mf
g
Combinations of

3 slow 38 68
and V ### it
ie i.e i . i.
r r
mf f or

Ties and anacrusis

22 D Triplets
p mp
4 and V bb V bbb u t. 1 or 2 changes

2 or 3 changes
Combinations of

5 98 and faster
compound time V # # # # V bbbb V
and
i. i i i i dim. cresc.

i iV i Full range
128 # #
V # # V bbbbb pp – ff
6 # More complex ties
Several changes
Rit.

Changing with
7 consistent unit
24 54 34 38 68 V # # # # # # V bbbbbb , F Many changes

e.g. or

Changing metres
8 e.g. 24 38
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Jazz Flute
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Specimen Sight-Reading
Progressive Teaching Guide

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Tempo Markings
Articulations Range Accidentals Grade
(examples)

g Medium swing 8s
Slurs V g Straight 8s None 1

i. g Relaxed jazz feel One, which could include

V g Rock b# =
B F or C
2

3 in a bar feel
-i g Calypso
One or two which
V g Latin could include 3
Medium up swing
6 in a bar feel
##= =
G C G or F

>i g Slow
Some, including
V g Steady
B ==bb =
A E A or E
4
Bossa Nova

scoop
sf g
Shuffle Some, now covering
V g Funk full chromatic range
5
iQ or i
g
i^ V g Bebop 6

tr i/ i~ Samba
Fast swing
May include
a bb 7
and

Many 8

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