AMEB · Grade 7
Grade 7 brings a new kind of test: memorising a short printed phrase in about a minute and performing it from memory. The triad test now asks for major or minor as well as the position, interrupted cadences join perfect and plagal, and the two-part test becomes a phrase of up to six notes. Everything you hear is played twice.
Triad
Name the triad (major, minor) and its position.
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Name the triad (major, minor) and its position.
A major or minor triad is played twice, in root position or an inversion, and you give both its quality and its position — for example, 'minor, first inversion'. Take the two questions one at a time: decide major or minor from the overall colour, then listen to the bass for the position (root, third or fifth at the bottom). Our trainer asks the two questions separately, in that order.
Practise this test →After the tonic chord, name the cadence at the end of a short piece in a major key (perfect, plagal, interrupted).
After the tonic chord, a short piece in a major key is played twice, and you recognise its cadences: perfect, plagal or — new at Grade 7 — interrupted. An interrupted cadence sets you up for a perfect cadence with V and then swerves to an unexpected chord, usually VI, so it sounds like a surprise. Our trainer plays the tonic chord and a passage twice, then asks about the final cadence; in the exam, listen at every phrase ending.
Practise this test →Study a printed 2-bar phrase for about 60 seconds, then sing it from memory.
You're shown a two-bar melodic phrase and given about a minute to memorise it, away from your instrument, after the examiner sounds the keynote. Then you sing or play it from memory. Our trainer shows a phrase for about a minute, hides it, plays the key chord and first note, and listens to you sing it. Use the minute well: read the rhythm first, then the shape, then sing it through silently twice.
Practise this test →Hum or sing from memory the higher or lower part of a two-part progression (heard twice).
A two-part phrase of up to six notes, note against note, near middle C and played slowly twice; you sing the upper or lower part from memory. Our trainer gives the key chord and your first note, plays both parts twice and then asks for one. With six notes, group them — three and three, or wherever the line turns. In our phrases the two lines often move in opposite directions, which helps you hear them apart.
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A full Grade 7 mock, marked
The examiner runs every test in order, plays as many times as the board does and gives an estimated result, with where you lose marks.
Start a mockYes — AMEB accepts playing or singing. Our trainer listens through the microphone and is built to follow a singing voice, so it asks you to sing; the memorising skill is the same either way. If you'll play it in the exam, try the phrase on your instrument after the trainer has checked your singing.
About one minute for a two-bar phrase at Grade 7, studied away from your instrument after the examiner sounds the keynote. At Grade 8 it grows to about a minute and a half for three or four bars. Our trainer uses the same study times.
Both start on V. A perfect cadence goes on to I and sounds finished; an interrupted cadence goes somewhere else, usually VI, and sounds unexpected — as if the music changed its mind. If you were sure it was about to end and it didn't, it was interrupted.
For piano, AMEB allows 40 minutes for the whole Grade 7 exam, with Section III — aural tests, sight-reading and general knowledge — after technical work and pieces. From Grade 6, a practical certificate also needs a theory corequisite; check AMEB's Regulations for the one that applies.
Independent practice. We are not affiliated with AMEB; the tests here are generated by our engine from the published format, not taken from the board's books. Mock marks are estimates — the examiner's judgement is final.