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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

24 34 44

Key Signatures

V#
V ##

Vb

Rhythm

Dynamics

i i i h h.
tr q p

mf

h. i
i. ie
g

mf

Combinations of

slow

V ###

38 68
and

it
ie i.e i . i.
r r

mf f
or

Ties and anacrusis

22 D

and

V bb

V bbb

Triplets

u t.

p mp
1 or 2 changes

2 or 3 changes

98

and faster
compound time

V # # # # V bbbb

Combinations of

V
i. i i i i
and

dim.

128

#
#
#
V # # V bbbbb

Changing with
consistent unit

V # # # # # # V bbbbbb

7
e.g.

i iV i
More complex ties
Rit.

cresc.

Full range

Several changes

pp

ff

Many changes

24 54 34 38 68
or

Changing metres
e.g.

24 38

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Jazz Flute

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Specimen Sight-Reading
Progressive Teaching Guide

PAGE 2
Articulations

Slurs

Range

Tempo Markings
(examples)

Accidentals

Grade

g
V g

Medium swing 8s
Straight 8s

None

Relaxed jazz feel

Rock

One, which could include

B F or C

3 in a bar feel
Calypso
Latin
Medium up swing
6 in a bar feel

One or two which

could include
G C G or F

i.
V g

-i
V g

Slow
Steady
Bossa Nova

V g
sf

==bb =

Some, including
A E A or E

Some, now covering

full chromatic range

scoop
or

##= =

>i
iQ

b# =

Shuffle
Funk

V g

i^
V g
tr

i/

i~

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Bebop

Samba
Fast swing

May include
and

a bb

Many

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