Course Information
Course Overview
Pass your ABRSM Grade 3 Music Theory exam with ease.
Updated in 2024!
The third level of ABRSM Music Theory exams is ideal for anyone who has a fair understanding of scales, keys and time signatures that are reasonably simple.
At grade 3, we delve deeper into the slightly more complex topics such as keys with up to 4 flats or sharps in them, harmonic and melodic minor scales, and simple and compound time signatures (6/8, 9/8 and 12/8).
We'll also review some of the topics from the lower grades which cause the most difficulty, such as beaming notes together in groups.
Please note that the grade 3 course/syllabus overlaps with grade 2, so we will also review some topics from grade 2 (those that normally cause the most confusion!)
The course includes:
PDF coursebook with comprehensive explanations and examples of each topic
PDF includes hundreds of practice exercises (answers included)
PDF also includes a full mock test based on the style of the real exam
Apps and quizzes for learning the foreign musical terms for this grade.
Teacher support via the messaging board
Reference materials include all the foreign terms you need for grade 3, including those learned at grades 1 and 2, as the syllabus is cumulative, plus complete examples of all scales in both treble and bass clefs.
Course Content
- 8 section(s)
- 36 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Welcome
- Section 2 Rhythm
- Section 3 Scales and Key
- Section 4 Intervals and Transposition
- Section 5 Harmony
- Section 6 Performance Directions
- Section 7 Grade 3 Practice Test
- Section 8 Useful Resources
What You’ll Learn
- Take and pass ABRSM grade 3 music theory with confidence, 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
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMaree Sheehan
well explained
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TTim Searight
Explanations are very clear and understandable.
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BBernadette Kingsley
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RRodrigo Almeida
It was a good match. Concepts are introduced and explained with enough detail. Good preparation for the ABRSM exams.