Pass Grade 5 Music Theory in 4 Weeks — from Beginner to Grade 5, The Knowledge Book

One book instead of five.

ABRSM Grade 5 Theory is a gate, not a subject. You cannot sit a Grade 6 practical exam until you are through it. Most people meet that gate late, in a hurry, holding five workbooks they never finished.

This is the book I wrote for my own students. Two of them worked through it at thirty minutes a week — and both came out with a Distinction.

What is inside — 60 pages

• 22 knowledge points. Everything Grade 5 asks, sorted by topic instead of by grade. You learn intervals once, properly, not five times in five books.
• Every point in the same three steps: what the knowledge is → the shortest way to work it out → one example, worked all the way through.
• A one-page map of the entire Grades 1–5 syllabus. The whole thing, on one sheet, so you can see how much is actually left.
• A four-week plan, day by day. 22 days to learn it, 6 days to prove it. Printed in the book — you do not have to invent a schedule.
• A two-page cheat sheet. One box for every one of the 22 points. This is the last thing you read before you go in.

Every stave in this book was engraved by hand. Nothing is scanned, nothing is borrowed, and nothing is a photograph of somebody else's textbook.

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Each knowledge point will also carry an exam section — the same knowledge shown exactly as the real exam asks it, answered step by step. Those are being written now. The day they are finished, your download link gives you the complete edition automatically. You buy this book once.

What this is not

This is the Knowledge Book: it teaches you the theory. It is not a book of exercises. The matching Exercise Book — a drill for every knowledge point, with every answer worked out — is a separate book, and it is on its way.

Dr. XinRu · PhD, Royal Academy of Music

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