COURSE GUIDE 2013 - Yamaha Music School

EXAMS EXAMS
YAMAhA GRADE EXAMS
Yamaha Music Education curriculum offers an integrated examination system
that provides periodic assessments for each course and reflects the broad
range of musical skills studied by students in class.
At entry level (Junior Music Course) students undertake a Fundamental Skills
Survey, where the parent and student receive written and oral feedback from
the class teacher and a qualified Yamaha examiner about the skills acquired
during the two years of lessons.
Subjects include Lyric Singing, Melody and Chord Hearing, Repertoire,
Creativity and Reading.
Fundamental Skills Survey is the first assessment of the Yamaha Grade
Examination System, internationally recognised as providing a rigorous
and encouraging test format, where a student’s ability to accompany and
improvise, based on advanced hearing skills, is given equal weight to
technique, repertoire and sight reading.
Each Grade level can be accomplished independently, but the skills acquired
within group lessons mean that at the end of each course a Yamaha Grade
exam is achievable. So Junior Extension classes graduate after undertaking
a Yamaha Grade 9 examination, Junior Advanced year 1 = Grade 8, Junior
Advanced Course year 2 = Grade 7 and so on.
Course Years
Junior Music 2
Yamaha
Assessment #
Fundamental
Skills Survey
AMEB
Equivalent*
# Yamaha exams start at level 13 and progress through to grade 5,4 & 3 as
the highest.
* An approximation only, as the focus is different to that of the Australian
AMEB exams; Yamaha exams specifically support the skills developed in the
group lessons.
20 21
N/A
Junior Extension 1 Grade 10 Preliminary
Junior Extension 2 Grade 9
Preliminary
Grade 1
Junior Ensemble 2 Grade 8 Grade 2/3
Junior Advanced 1 Grade 8 Grade 2/3
Junior Advanced 2 Grade 7 Grade 3/4