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Scales and Arpeggios

I have been a piano teacher for more than 20 years. In my years of practise I have prepared many students for exams. While students find it relatively easy to learn a single scale, they are often having a hard time memorising up to 9 scales for an exam. The most probably cause is that scales are gradually thought month by month and students usually don't practise more than 3 scales at a time. Before an exam they often start mixing up the keys and the proper fingering associated with each scale. Therefore, after trying different approaches, I came to the conclusion that the best way to help them is to use printed pictures of the keys and the proper fingering besides the music notation. 

Below you can find all the scales and arpeggios for the ABRSM exams ordered by grades. 

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