Comparing this new syllabus to the previous one is some sort of joke. Maple leaf and Alla Turka would have been better fitted into grade 7 or even 6, especially at the given tempo. I feel like none of the A pieces are nearly as difficult, and maybe setting Over the Bars has traumatised them from last time, so they went to the other extreme and made these comically easy 😭
Whilst I am delighted to see Scott Joplin getting the attention he deserves, I was playing maple leaf when I was grade 5 - though I admit I was challenging myself a bit. When I took my grade 8 (1990s) I'm quite sure the pieces were more difficult than this. I could sight read some of these and make a reasonable job of it. So I think you're right, these aren't as difficult as I would have expected.
I’m sure you living in the great city of Leipzig are also pretty disappointed by the complete lack of Bach (either JS or any of his sons). So disappointing how little baroque/galant music is in here. So glad I’m not taking my exam in these times because baroque music is really the only music I love to play.
In the past years there was often something from the WTC or Partitas. But this time it‘s only G Major from book 2 in the complete list of Grade 8. In lower grades there are still some inventions.
@@PianoExplorerHungDoThis is lovely! I don't know about other people but for me, it gives me more motivation for sitting for an exam! Love the last jazzy piece too.
It's getting to be a bit of a problem - the Trinity syllabus is getting silly at some grades. I'm a piano teacher, and I'm struggling to get a varied programme together with my students. Hardly any Classical/Baroque repertoire!
I could play three of these pieces (The girl with the flaxen hair, Rondo Alla Turca and Maple Leaf Rag) a long time before I took my Grade 8 exam over 30 years ago. Another comment mentions the Turkish March previously being Grade 6, which seems more appropriate than Grade 8. This is evidence that exams are definitely getting easier, which devalues the same qualification that people achieved years ago.
Seems the pieces are easier to play. During my days, 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K. 573 is one of the pieces in Grade 8 which demands more techniques
Just had a look at the complete list. I can see for instance the middle movement of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata. In my schooldays, this was set at Grade VI. In Grade VIII you would have had to play the whole sonata (although possibly this particular sonata would not have been set). So candidates at Grade VIII no longer have to show that they can handle longer pieces, and don't need to play shorter pieces that are as difficult as those that used to be set at this level.
Ah I see, a whole sonata is indeed more difficult in terms of stamina. But in the complete list there are still rather difficult pieces like Beethoven E major Sonata, Haydn E Flat major Sonata or the full first movement of Mozart KV 331. Those pieces are not short and not easy at all.
@@zugzwang2007 just because they might be technically less challenging or lengthy doesn’t mean they are easy to play. The layers in the 2nd movement, bringing out the main melody while not losing the accompanying notes, putting emotion into the piece without pulling faces and looking like you have a stomach ache etc are all just as important as playing the right notes , don’t you think? And often far more difficult to execute, especially for young students who have little life experience. This is just my thought but maybe that’s why some of the pieces seem ‘easy’ to some. In Australia they now have two levels of the Music board Exams. The regular ones and what they call “Piano for Leisure". Which goes to grade 8 but has a lot less technical work and far less classical pieces. It has lots of jazz, swing and latin. Movie themes (Harry Potter, Mission impossible Gabriels Oboe, Deer Hunter) and pieces by contemporaries , Christopher Norton, Yurmi . Lots of arrangements written just for the AMEB - PFL such as Waltzing Matilda, Fix U, Gravity, Also folk songs and pieces written originally for other instruments. It’s aimed at students who want to be able to play well and varied but not for anything professional or complicated. If you want go further than 8th grade you have to have sit and pass the regular 8th grade even if you got an A+ for your Piano f Leisure exam. . Often students start with Piano for Leisure and if they find piano it’s something they are really keen on might swap over to the regular syllabus around grade 5 or 6. Some even do all the regular exams but do music for leisure grade 8 and then regular grade 8 to have a warm up so to speak. So some have done an 8th grade exam but it’s not the mainstream one. So many start learning piano and I’d be interested to know how many stop around 4th grade and how many pass 8th grade. Private lessons are very costly as well. I was brought up in a small country town in Australia back in the 60s-70’s and there were no decent piano teachers. I had to go to the local convent and the nun would hit me on the knuckles with her ruler. I hope you had/have good teachers and a positive experience. All the best to you. 🎶
@@Soffity Of course, I don't think this piece is easy. I have found many more challenges in it now than I did back when the nun was hitting you with her ruler and it just seemed easy to play. My point was that when you look at Grade VIII and find this isolated movement as a set piece, that is a direct comparison with the same isolated movement being set (back in the 1960s) at Grade VI and the whole sonata (in some years) being required at Grade VIII. So something profound has happened to standards. I don't happen to think that the explanation is a significant rise in the requirements to manage the different layers, achieve a singing tone for the melodic line without obliterating the different voices in the left hand and so on. It could be that, but I don't think this is as plausible as the idea that the value of the Grade VIII exam has been diluted (even if some improvements have gone on in the background). This would be consistent with 30% of students in the UK being awarded First Class honours, when the percentage half a century ago was typically between 5 and 10 per cent.
perhaps these days they are more into the interpretation and emotion of the piece, not just the notes. That can be harder than just learning the notes. Btw I really liked the tempo you played Alla Turka. Just because you can play very very fast doesn’t mean you should
I still have my grade 8 book from 2001-2002. Definitely easier pieces now. Samual barber excursions no.2. Haydn Sonata in D maj Hob XVI:37 mvt 1. Debussy prelude: Bruyeres. Schubert sonata no. 4 in a min, mvt 1. Schumann, Grillen. Tchaikovsky, janvier 'au coin du feu'. Chopin nocturne in E maj op.62. No. 2. Just to name a few pieces.
@@Soffityindeed playing Alla Turca in a good way is not easy at all. As they say: Mozart is too easy for children and too hard for adults😁 the more you look into the details the more difficult it gets.
@@Indigoporcelainoh I see very interesting repertoire. Haydn 37 and Tchaikovsky January is still on the new syllabus. Bruyeres is more difficult than La fille aux cheveux de lin. And of coure a Schubert sonata or Chopin late Nocturnes are hard. But also on the new syllabus you have the choice. There are more difficult pieces concerning notes and technique than Rondo alla Turca.
I’ve got some AMEB (Australian Music Examination Board ) exam books from the 1940 onwards. Here are the pieces in the 1969 7th grade book. List A Bertini -Study in F, Op 32 No.8 Cramer -Study in F# m no. 5 Czerny- Study in F, Op 740 No.35 List B Graun-Gigue in B flat minor Handel-theme and variations in E Mozart-Gigue in G, K.574 List C Beethoven-Sonata in F# Op. 78 Ist Mov. Haydn- Sonata in Eb. No.3 Ist mov. Schubert- sonata in A Op.120 Ist Mov List D Debussy- Bruyères from 12 preludes Falla- Danse du Meunier Ford- Study in Cm Humble- 3 statements for piano. As you can see the variety was much less back then. Lots of study’s and lots of classical sonatas. I’m surprised this book doesn’t have a Bach prelude/fugue or invention. Most of them do as a list B You had to do one piece from each list as well as one extra from C or D You had loads of technical work. I remember it used to take me almost an hour just to play thru the list of technical work There was sight reading and also Aural tests and general knowledge. You also had to pass grade 4 theory as part of getting the certificate. When my father who is 95 was doing the AMEB exams (I’ve an exam book of his from 1940). Grade II was equal to grade 7 so change may be another reason the piece difficulty has changed from one grade to a different one.
Oh wow that‘s super interesting! Thank you for your detailled information! Lots of classical pieces indeed, but very different in style so you still have some kind of choice. Beethoven F Sharp Major Sonata is actually rather difficult, often underrated.
@@PianoExplorerHungDo glad you’re interested, I’m pretty sure grade 7 or II was the high test grade they had back then. So to be fair the above were classed as what is now grade 8. If you have a good teacher as a child you’re very fortunate. I was brought up in a very small town in rural Australia in the 60’s & 70’s and the only “teachers” available were the nuns from the local convent. They would have 6 kids at a time to one teacher all banging away on pianos at the same time in an old wooden house the convent owned. It still stands today. I wasn’t catholic so they didn’t like me very much and used to hit me on the knuckles with the side of a ruler when I made a mistake. Which was often. The non catholic pupils had to do their exams on a very heavy, nasty grand piano they kept deep in the convent. The room was full of statues of Jesus with the crown of thorns on his head and lots of blood running down his body. As a child and a non Catholic it was like entering hell. I’d never seen anything like it. I loved playing or I would have given up the first week. Listening to you play is such a joy so I thank you. I found a great teacher 5 years ago and have been having piano lessons from him ever since. People say “but you can play the piano why do you need lessons?” I had no idea about any music but classical, what was swing rhythm was or how to play it. Didn’t understand 2 against 3 rhythms etc etc. Never played Chopin or anything modern. I don’t have talent like my dad had but I slog away and playing the piano brings me so much peace and happiness. I’m learning (or trying to ) Rachmaninovs prelude 23 in D at the moment and it’s so beautiful. How anyone can compose a piece like that is beyond me? My teacher, who is almost my age gives me half price lessons and is a dear friend. We play duets together and I joke I’m not only his oldest student but I practice the most as well. Sorry for the long comment but you’re young and talented and I wish you much happiness and contentment in your music for the rest of your life.
@@AnonymousPianist99 if you want info on the current AMEB 7th and 8th grade syllabus I don’t have a manual. My piano teacher does. You have to buy it and it’s quite expensive. The AMEB also has a seiners of exams you can do called Music for leisure. The exams have much less technical work and the grade pieces include things like film themes ( eg. arrangement of Gabriel’s Oboe and the Cavatina from the Deer Hunter)and Christopher Norton Jazz pieces and even arrangements of songs a music teacher is the best person to ask. What I have are old grade books from the 60’s and as the syllabus changed very regularly if you’re doing an exam yiu have to be up to date for that year. Wish I could be more helpful. All the best to you . 🦘
Dear Mr Hung, SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you-Dziękuję for my favourite composers, mainly Scarlatti, Mozart, Debussy and Liszt, and for an excellent delightful performance, congratulations for over 3940 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more..., I've added this video to my old public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr Hung Do", again my best wishes from warm/hot Poland to Germany, have a nice sunny relaxing weekend, Joanna.
It was wonderful concert . All the pieces are beautiful and your performance is awesome . I enjoyed a lot and love them ❤ Thank you for sharing 🌷 ❤❤❤ 24:58
Was für ein wunderschönes Konzert, lieber Hung!! 🤩Eine grandiose Stückauswahl und so wundervoll interpretiert!! Besonders habe ich mich darüber gefreut, dass ich neue, ganz bezaubernde Stücke kennenlernen durfte! ( Bonis, Hisaishi, Frances-Hoad, M. Sherwin & E. Maschwitz) Es war ein Genuss, lieber Hung, Deiner großartigen, pianistischen Kunst zu lauschen! 🙏👏👏👏💐
I remember Grade 8 it had to be a prelude or fuge WTC or similar Scarlatti As List A they were difficult even List B and C. Surely they must make it harder to keep the standards high
In the complete list there you can still choose G Major from WTC. And quite a lot sonata movements in the A List by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, which are more difficult than Rondo alla Turca. So you can choose a more difficult program if you want to.
You can either buy the ABRSM Grade 8 book of the new Syllabus 2025&2026 or in this Ghibli book: www.schott-music.com/de/ghibli-best-stories-original-edition-no344522.html?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD8HCKfoMlr-V2t5r6MLBVBQH5xaW&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt87oz4KphwMV1ZiDBx1ddRHyEAQYBSABEgJMifD_BwE
Thank you so much! 🙏🏼😍I‘m very happy to hear this, because I‘m actually a classical trained pianist. Just sometimes listening to jazz or play some Kapustin.
@@PianoExplorerHungDo Since this piece is arranged in a very lyrical style, I think you've brought out the lines and subtlety of the harmony, phrasing is particularly well expressed.
surprised that joe hisaishi's il porco rosso made it to the abrsm grade 8 exam, feel proud that his works recognize through piano exam but in the same time i feel like its too easy piece for abrsm grade 8, i kinda like the arrangement though
Yeah many people are surprised by Ghibli music and the difficulty of grade 8 pieces. It‘s still a great arrangement and to play good not easy as the other pieces.
The use of pedal is something very personal and maybe also myself would do it differently on another instrument. That‘s why it‘s better for anyone to follow their ears and decide how use the pedal😁
Vielen Dank, dass Du mir jedes Mal eine so wundervolle Leistung beschert hast. Es ist zart, voller Emotionen, ausdrucksstark, dramatisch und wirklich aufregend. Ich freue mich auf weitere tolle Videos in der Zukunft. Ein schönes Wochenende wünsche ich Dir.
heyyy im taking my grade 5 theory exam on saturday and after ive passed it im gonna start learning grade 8 pieces!! thank you so much i will definitely choose alla turca (turkish march) ive been wanting to play it since i was 4!!
I graduated my grade 8 at 10 years old in 2022, right now im really shocked how easy and simple these pieces are and I feel quite jealous that they get such easy pieces
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i finished my grade 8 exam a few months ago i wld have never imagined playing a ghibli song for a piano exam 😭☝️
If you learned a little bit slowier, you could have played a ghibli song😁 that‘s something really new in ABRSM and many people don‘t expect this😅
i wish i took my grade 8 piano this year.. syllabus looks so fun!
There are quite a lot pieces in this syllabus, which are fun to play😁
Comparing this new syllabus to the previous one is some sort of joke. Maple leaf and Alla Turka would have been better fitted into grade 7 or even 6, especially at the given tempo. I feel like none of the A pieces are nearly as difficult, and maybe setting Over the Bars has traumatised them from last time, so they went to the other extreme and made these comically easy 😭
The difficulty and the standard seem to change. Quite a lot people say the same and are not really happy about it😔
Whilst I am delighted to see Scott Joplin getting the attention he deserves, I was playing maple leaf when I was grade 5 - though I admit I was challenging myself a bit. When I took my grade 8 (1990s) I'm quite sure the pieces were more difficult than this. I could sight read some of these and make a reasonable job of it. So I think you're right, these aren't as difficult as I would have expected.
I’m sure you living in the great city of Leipzig are also pretty disappointed by the complete lack of Bach (either JS or any of his sons). So disappointing how little baroque/galant music is in here. So glad I’m not taking my exam in these times because baroque music is really the only music I love to play.
In the past years there was often something from the WTC or Partitas. But this time it‘s only G Major from book 2 in the complete list of Grade 8. In lower grades there are still some inventions.
Movie music in a piano exam book!? Never would have I seen the day.
Indeed this new syllabus has various genres. But one has to admit it‘s a very good arrangement of „il porco rosso“☺️
@@PianoExplorerHungDoThis is lovely! I don't know about other people but for me, it gives me more motivation for sitting for an exam! Love the last jazzy piece too.
@@yewbtang1848those are definitely great pieces. Even though I‘m classically trained, I really like to play and listen to them☺️
It's getting to be a bit of a problem - the Trinity syllabus is getting silly at some grades. I'm a piano teacher, and I'm struggling to get a varied programme together with my students. Hardly any Classical/Baroque repertoire!
@@AnnathePianawhy do you need to go by a syllabus?
I expected Maple Leaf Rag and Turkish March to be a lower grade than ABRSM 8. Very nice played sir, thanks!
Back in my day Turkish March was grade 6! These ABRSM grades definitely getting in easier it seems.
Indeed there are a lot of people wondering about turkish march in Grade 8 syllabus🤔
Me too, lousy ABRSM getting more commercial and rubbish exam board nowadays! 😡
I could play three of these pieces (The girl with the flaxen hair, Rondo Alla Turca and Maple Leaf Rag) a long time before I took my Grade 8 exam over 30 years ago. Another comment mentions the Turkish March previously being Grade 6, which seems more appropriate than Grade 8. This is evidence that exams are definitely getting easier, which devalues the same qualification that people achieved years ago.
@@PianoExplorerHungDoI was wondering as soon as I clicked on
turkish is grade 8?
Indeed, yes! You are not the only one who is surprised😁
Seems the pieces are easier to play. During my days, 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K. 573 is one of the pieces in Grade 8 which demands more techniques
Oh those Mozart variations are definitely more difficult than Rondo alla Turca😁
I learnt the Alla Turca like 4 years ago. I did grade 8 piano last year. And grade 8 was challenging and that piece wasn't
Just had a look at the complete list. I can see for instance the middle movement of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata. In my schooldays, this was set at Grade VI. In Grade VIII you would have had to play the whole sonata (although possibly this particular sonata would not have been set). So candidates at Grade VIII no longer have to show that they can handle longer pieces, and don't need to play shorter pieces that are as difficult as those that used to be set at this level.
Ah I see, a whole sonata is indeed more difficult in terms of stamina. But in the complete list there are still rather difficult pieces like Beethoven E major Sonata, Haydn E Flat major Sonata or the full first movement of Mozart KV 331. Those pieces are not short and not easy at all.
I know this piece and turkish march so i ain't complaining 😂
@@zugzwang2007 just because they might be technically less challenging or lengthy doesn’t mean they are easy to play. The layers in the 2nd movement, bringing out the main melody while not losing the accompanying notes, putting emotion into the piece without pulling faces and looking like you have a stomach ache etc are all just as important as playing the right notes , don’t you think? And often far more difficult to execute, especially for young students who have little life experience.
This is just my thought but maybe that’s why some of the pieces seem ‘easy’ to some.
In Australia they now have two levels of the Music board Exams. The regular ones and what they call “Piano for Leisure". Which goes to grade 8 but has a lot less technical work and far less classical pieces. It has lots of jazz, swing and latin. Movie themes (Harry Potter, Mission impossible Gabriels Oboe, Deer Hunter) and pieces by contemporaries , Christopher Norton, Yurmi . Lots of arrangements written just for the AMEB - PFL such as Waltzing Matilda, Fix U, Gravity, Also folk songs and pieces written originally for other instruments. It’s aimed at students who want to be able to play well and varied but not for anything professional or complicated.
If you want go further than 8th grade you have to have sit and pass the regular 8th grade even if you got an A+ for your Piano f Leisure exam.
. Often students start with Piano for Leisure and if they find piano it’s something they are really keen on might swap over to the regular syllabus around grade 5 or 6. Some even do all the regular exams but do music for leisure grade 8 and then regular grade 8 to have a warm up so to speak.
So some have done an 8th grade exam but it’s not the mainstream one.
So many start learning piano and I’d be interested to know how many stop around 4th grade and how many pass 8th grade. Private lessons are very costly as well.
I was brought up in a small country town in Australia back in the 60s-70’s and there were no decent piano teachers. I had to go to the local convent and the nun would hit me on the knuckles with her ruler.
I hope you had/have good teachers and a positive experience. All the best to you. 🎶
@@Soffity Of course, I don't think this piece is easy. I have found many more challenges in it now than I did back when the nun was hitting you with her ruler and it just seemed easy to play. My point was that when you look at Grade VIII and find this isolated movement as a set piece, that is a direct comparison with the same isolated movement being set (back in the 1960s) at Grade VI and the whole sonata (in some years) being required at Grade VIII. So something profound has happened to standards. I don't happen to think that the explanation is a significant rise in the requirements to manage the different layers, achieve a singing tone for the melodic line without obliterating the different voices in the left hand and so on. It could be that, but I don't think this is as plausible as the idea that the value of the Grade VIII exam has been diluted (even if some improvements have gone on in the background). This would be consistent with 30% of students in the UK being awarded First Class honours, when the percentage half a century ago was typically between 5 and 10 per cent.
Huh? Turkish March is one of the exam pieces of ABRSM Grade 8 Piano? The difficulty drops compared with previous years..
Yeah, quite a lot people are surprised by that…
I remembered the grade 8 exam pieces being much trickier to perform
I guess no one is taking the exams anymore, hence the difficulty adjustment
Could be a reason. No one knows, but many people are some kind of wondering.
Do you remember examples of older grade 8 pieces?
perhaps these days they are more into the interpretation and emotion of the piece, not just the notes. That can be harder than just learning the notes.
Btw I really liked the tempo you played Alla Turka. Just because you can play very very fast doesn’t mean you should
I still have my grade 8 book from 2001-2002. Definitely easier pieces now. Samual barber excursions no.2. Haydn Sonata in D maj Hob XVI:37 mvt 1. Debussy prelude: Bruyeres. Schubert sonata no. 4 in a min, mvt 1. Schumann, Grillen. Tchaikovsky, janvier 'au coin du feu'. Chopin nocturne in E maj op.62. No. 2. Just to name a few pieces.
@@Soffityindeed playing Alla Turca in a good way is not easy at all. As they say: Mozart is too easy for children and too hard for adults😁 the more you look into the details the more difficult it gets.
@@Indigoporcelainoh I see very interesting repertoire. Haydn 37 and Tchaikovsky January is still on the new syllabus. Bruyeres is more difficult than La fille aux cheveux de lin. And of coure a Schubert sonata or Chopin late Nocturnes are hard. But also on the new syllabus you have the choice. There are more difficult pieces concerning notes and technique than Rondo alla Turca.
I’ve got some AMEB (Australian Music Examination Board ) exam books from the 1940 onwards. Here are the pieces in the 1969 7th grade book.
List A Bertini -Study in F, Op 32 No.8
Cramer -Study in F# m no. 5
Czerny- Study in F, Op 740 No.35
List B Graun-Gigue in B flat minor
Handel-theme and variations in E
Mozart-Gigue in G, K.574
List C Beethoven-Sonata in F# Op. 78 Ist Mov.
Haydn- Sonata in Eb. No.3 Ist mov.
Schubert- sonata in A Op.120 Ist Mov
List D Debussy- Bruyères from 12 preludes
Falla- Danse du Meunier
Ford- Study in Cm
Humble- 3 statements for piano.
As you can see the variety was much less back then. Lots of study’s and lots of classical sonatas. I’m surprised this book doesn’t have a Bach prelude/fugue or invention. Most of them do as a list B
You had to do one piece from each list as well as one extra from C or D
You had loads of technical work. I remember it used to take me almost an hour just to play thru the list of technical work
There was sight reading and also Aural tests and general knowledge. You also had to pass grade 4 theory as part of getting the certificate.
When my father who is 95 was doing the AMEB exams (I’ve an exam book of his from 1940). Grade II was equal to grade 7 so change may be another reason the piece difficulty has changed from one grade to a different one.
Oh wow that‘s super interesting! Thank you for your detailled information! Lots of classical pieces indeed, but very different in style so you still have some kind of choice. Beethoven F Sharp Major Sonata is actually rather difficult, often underrated.
@@PianoExplorerHungDo glad you’re interested, I’m pretty sure grade 7 or II was the high test grade they had back then. So to be fair the above were classed as what is now grade 8.
If you have a good teacher as a child you’re very fortunate. I was brought up in a very small town in rural Australia in the 60’s & 70’s and the only “teachers” available were the nuns from the local convent. They would have 6 kids at a time to one teacher all banging away on pianos at the same time in an old wooden house the convent owned. It still stands today. I wasn’t catholic so they didn’t like me very much and used to hit me on the knuckles with the side of a ruler when I made a mistake. Which was often. The non catholic pupils had to do their exams on a very heavy, nasty grand piano they kept deep in the convent. The room was full of statues of Jesus with the crown of thorns on his head and lots of blood running down his body. As a child and a non Catholic it was like entering hell. I’d never seen anything like it.
I loved playing or I would have given up the first week.
Listening to you play is such a joy so I thank you. I found a great teacher 5 years ago and have been having piano lessons from him ever since. People say “but you can play the piano why do you need lessons?” I had no idea about any music but classical, what was swing rhythm was or how to play it. Didn’t understand 2 against 3 rhythms etc etc. Never played Chopin or anything modern. I don’t have talent like my dad had but I slog away and playing the piano brings me so much peace and happiness. I’m learning (or trying to ) Rachmaninovs prelude 23 in D at the moment and it’s so beautiful. How anyone can compose a piece like that is beyond me?
My teacher, who is almost my age gives me half price lessons and is a dear friend. We play duets together and I joke I’m not only his oldest student but I practice the most as well.
Sorry for the long comment but you’re young and talented and I wish you much happiness and contentment in your music for the rest of your life.
@@Soffity hey! Can you tell me the pieces in the other syllabuses for grades 7-8? Thanks
@@AnonymousPianist99 if you want info on the current AMEB 7th and 8th grade syllabus I don’t have a manual. My piano teacher does. You have to buy it and it’s quite expensive. The AMEB also has a seiners of exams you can do called Music for leisure. The exams have much less technical work and the grade pieces include things like film themes ( eg. arrangement of Gabriel’s Oboe and the Cavatina from the Deer Hunter)and Christopher Norton Jazz pieces and even arrangements of songs a music teacher is the best person to ask.
What I have are old grade books from the 60’s and as the syllabus changed very regularly if you’re doing an exam yiu have to be up to date for that year.
Wish I could be more helpful. All the best to you . 🦘
@@Soffity oh thanks! No worries
A beautiful achievement, Hung Do. Beautiful pieces very well played and interpreted by you. Congratulations and thank you!
Thank you so much as always, dear André!🙏🏼😍
I have a question, what grade would "idea 10" classify as? Do you know?
Oh I don‘t know this piece…
And there was me doing Novelette in B Flat Minor by Poulenc for my Grade 8 🤔
Hehe yeah in the past there were definitely some more difficult pieces for Grade 8.
Thanks sir for sharing your experience with talents.you have a new subscriber today.
Thank you so much!!🙏🏼😍
Dear Mr Hung, SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you-Dziękuję for my favourite composers, mainly Scarlatti, Mozart, Debussy and Liszt, and for an excellent delightful performance, congratulations for over 3940 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more..., I've added this video to my old public playlists called "My Favourite Classical Music" and "Mr Hung Do", again my best wishes from warm/hot Poland to Germany, have a nice sunny relaxing weekend, Joanna.
Dziekuje, Joanna😍
@@PianoExplorerHungDoNow he has 4K subs
@@GoldClav that‘s right☺️☺️😁😁
It was wonderful concert .
All the pieces are beautiful
and your performance is awesome .
I enjoyed a lot and love them ❤
Thank you for sharing 🌷 ❤❤❤ 24:58
Thank you so much! I‘m really happy that you listen to and like it😍🙏🏼
Wonderful video 🎹♫Great performance🎧🎶✨
Thank you so much, Reiko😍😍
Absolutely wonderful my dear friend and piano partner!😁👍👏👏👏👏👏😍
Thank you so much, Peter!😍
You're so welcome my friend!😁😍
@peternaryd_operasinger ☺️☺️
Was für ein wunderschönes Konzert, lieber Hung!! 🤩Eine grandiose Stückauswahl und so wundervoll interpretiert!! Besonders habe ich mich darüber gefreut, dass ich neue, ganz bezaubernde Stücke kennenlernen durfte!
( Bonis, Hisaishi, Frances-Hoad, M. Sherwin & E. Maschwitz) Es war ein Genuss, lieber Hung, Deiner großartigen, pianistischen Kunst zu lauschen! 🙏👏👏👏💐
Vielen Dank für deine lieben Worte und dass du so aufmerksam zugehört hast, liebe Juliane😍😍
Excellent job! Loved playing Maple Leaf Rag in the past and now it's an exam piece haha, can't imagine! Porco Rosso was a pleasant surprise too 🎶😄
Thank you so much! Yeah the genres and music styles definitely are more open and various this time.☺️
Sound so beautiful, played wonderfully, thanks for sharing👍❤
Thank you so much😍😍
I mean the #1 song from the beginning
Da sind aber tolle Stücke dabei! Die Scarlatti Sonate ist klasse!!!
Echt toll gespielt, Hung 👏🏻❤️
Tausend Dank dir, Cornelia! Ohja die Scarlatti Sonate war auch ein Fund für mich. Schiff hat die ganz hervorragend interpretiert😍
Grade 8 is the top grade, right?
Yes☺️
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Cảm ơn mẹ❤️
I remember Grade 8 it had to be a prelude or fuge WTC or similar Scarlatti As List A they were difficult even List B and C. Surely they must make it harder to keep the standards high
In the complete list there you can still choose G Major from WTC. And quite a lot sonata movements in the A List by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, which are more difficult than Rondo alla Turca. So you can choose a more difficult program if you want to.
Where can I download or buy the sheet of il porco rosso?
You can either buy the ABRSM Grade 8 book of the new Syllabus 2025&2026 or in this Ghibli book: www.schott-music.com/de/ghibli-best-stories-original-edition-no344522.html?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD8HCKfoMlr-V2t5r6MLBVBQH5xaW&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt87oz4KphwMV1ZiDBx1ddRHyEAQYBSABEgJMifD_BwE
I like b2
Do you know the movie? Studio Ghibli music is definitely lovely music😍
Wow! This is amazing! Thank you ❤
Thank you so much, dear Robert!!🙏🏼🙏🏼😍😍
LISZT?! GRADE 8?!
Yes😁
Fantastic Hung Do 🎹🎶
Thank you so much, Lluís😍
Excellent video! I love the way you play the Nightingale.
Thank you so much! 🙏🏼😍I‘m very happy to hear this, because I‘m actually a classical trained pianist. Just sometimes listening to jazz or play some Kapustin.
@@PianoExplorerHungDo Since this piece is arranged in a very lyrical style, I think you've brought out the lines and subtlety of the harmony, phrasing is particularly well expressed.
@@jacksonlim4818thank you so much once again🙏🏼🙏🏼
im learning rondo alla turka as my first piece rn. I didnt realize it was grade 8 😳
Learn to more pieces and you can do the exam😁
surprised that joe hisaishi's il porco rosso made it to the abrsm grade 8 exam, feel proud that his works recognize through piano exam but in the same time i feel like its too easy piece for abrsm grade 8, i kinda like the arrangement though
Yeah many people are surprised by Ghibli music and the difficulty of grade 8 pieces. It‘s still a great arrangement and to play good not easy as the other pieces.
Hay quá ah 🎉❤
Ui cảm ơn Châu!🙏🏼😍
I love play guides wih notes text!
You listen to the music differently when you see the sheet music😁
Second piece is definitely inspired by Debussy's Jardins sous la Pluie
I agree! Definitely👌🏻
turkish march is grade 6 standard and abrsm rlly put it in grade 8..
Yeah now it‘s grade 8. The most discussed piece of the new syllabus
Wieder so schön. Tolle Arbeit🥰🎉🎉🎉
Danke dir, mein Schatz😘😍
Amazinggg.. thank you and also appreciate the Ninja editing technique in Maple Leaf Rag last part😅
Yeah there was this one wrong note, for that I didn‘t record the part before again😁
@@PianoExplorerHungDo happens to all of us 😁
Omg 😮
Haha Matcha😍😍 danke!
If can see pedal would be goodc
The use of pedal is something very personal and maybe also myself would do it differently on another instrument. That‘s why it‘s better for anyone to follow their ears and decide how use the pedal😁
Vielen Dank, dass Du mir jedes Mal eine so wundervolle Leistung beschert hast. Es ist zart, voller Emotionen, ausdrucksstark, dramatisch und wirklich aufregend. Ich freue mich auf weitere tolle Videos in der Zukunft. Ein schönes Wochenende wünsche ich Dir.
Vielen lieben Dank dir, Satoru☺️🙏🏼
Hay quá chú ơi! Con 13 tuổi mới thi xong grade 7 được distinction, và bây giờ con đang tập grade 8. Cảm ơn chú đã đăng một video thật hay!
Awesome! Grade 8 con chọn bài gì? Con sống ở nước nào đó?
@@PianoExplorerHungDo Dạ A3 B2 C2 ạ^^ con ở Sài Gòn
My piano teacher said this song only level 7, and not 8
Yeah many people think Rondo alla Turca would fit better to grade 6 or 7😵💫
Beautiful music wonderful performance ❤
Thank you so much😍
Rondo alla Turca is technically easier, but to play it musically is another challenge. There is forever room for improvement for pianist.
Definitely! Mozart is too easy for children and too difficult for adults😁
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Cảm ơn mẹ❤️❤️
this is really cool.... thanks for sharing. Could you also please do the "La Triophante" by Rameau
Thank you so much! I don‘t know that Rameau piece yet but I will have a look☺️
@@PianoExplorerHungDo thanks much.... it is part of Grade 8 Trinity (TCL 2021-23 extended)
Well done
Thank you so much😍
wwaw grade 8 🎉🎉🎉who choose these sheets for exam thank youuuu....
Thank you as well☺️
really enjoyed your performance
Thank you so much😍😍
Can one take an grade 8 exam just by practicing these 9 music pieces?
No, you have scales, sight reading and an aural set of tests
@@johnwade7430 does sight reading mean impromptu playing while reading notes?
You choose one piece from each list A, B and C. So you don‘t need to play all these 9 pieces.
@@betserv.1187sightreading means they give you a short piece you don‘t know. You have some seconds or minutes to look over it and then play.
@@PianoExplorerHungDo one from each list means 3 pieces? Only 3 pieces of my choice to practice/finger-memorize to pass Grade 8?
heyyy im taking my grade 5 theory exam on saturday and after ive passed it im gonna start learning grade 8 pieces!! thank you so much i will definitely choose alla turca (turkish march) ive been wanting to play it since i was 4!!
That‘s awesome! I think like everybody will choose Alla Turca😂 such a popular piece for this Grade 8 syllabus.
@@PianoExplorerHungDo I feel a little sympathy for the examiners - they will probably never want to hear it again after this round of exams!
@@kwilson5832that‘s possible😂
I graduated my grade 8 at 10 years old in 2022, right now im really shocked how easy and simple these pieces are and I feel quite jealous that they get such easy pieces
The difficulty seems the change within the years. And also the variety of repertoire and styles.