- Major scales C, G, D and F
- Tonic broken chords
- Independent finger control
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MPW Grade 3
Developing Hymn & Reading Pianist
Turn reading, inversions and hymn skills into dependable weekly musicianship.
- Intervallic reading across the grand staff
- Eight-bar sight-reading
- Pattern spotting before playing
- Dotted-half and eighth-note combinations
- Continuous pulse after an error
- Metronome preparation
- Recognise tonic and dominant
- Echo five-note phrases
- Distinguish major and minor triads
- Triads and inversions
- I–IV–V–I
- Phrase and cadence
- Four developing pieces in at least two styles
- Melody and chordal harmony
- Introductions and endings
- Smooth inversions in two keys
- Improvise over I–IV–V using a five-note set
- Prepare and present a two-piece studio performance
Required evidence
Assignments
- 25-day micro sight-reading log
- Inversion progression video
- Complete hymn verse
Live teaching
Checkpoints
- Reading one level below repertoire
- Inversion fluency
- Congregational tempo
- Self-correction
Ready to progress
Exit competencies
- Reads short scores without stopping
- Voices primary chords smoothly
- Supports a familiar hymn at a singable tempo