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Music Theory ABRSM Grade 4 Complete
Ace your music theory for ABRSM Grade 4 with Victoria Williams LmusTCL.
Created byVictoria Williams LmusTCL BA(Mus)
Last updated 8/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Pass the ABRSM Grade 4 Music Theory exam with confidence.
- All simple and compound, duple, triple and quadruple time signatures and the grouping of notes within them
- The breve/double whole note and rest
- Double dotted notes
- Duplets and triplets
- The alto clef, and transcription between the treble/bass/alto clefs
- Double sharps and flats and enharmonic equivalents
- Major and minor (harmonic and melodic) scales and key signatures of all major and minor keys up to and including five sharps/flats
- Technical names of diatonic notes
- The chromatic scale
- All intervals (major/minor/perfect/augmented/diminished), not exceeding an octave
- Triads in root position of the tonic, dominant and subdominant
- Foreign musical terms and symbols including recognising ornaments
- General knowledge about the standard orchestral instruments
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Course content
10 sections • 42 lectures • 1h 34m total length
Requirements
- Students should be around ABRSM grade 3 level.
- This means you should be fairly comfortable reading music in the treble and bass clefs and understand the basics of key and time signatures.
- Not sure which grade you are? Just send me a message and I'll help!
Description
Updated in 2024!
Grade 4 music theory (ABRSM) is a lower-intermediate level exam offered by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
At this level you will study more complex keys and time signatures, such as scales (major, minor harmonic and minor melodic) with up to five flats/sharps in them, and all regular simple and compound time signatures, including more obscure ones such as 9/16, as well as more advanced rhythmic tools such as triplets and duplets. You'll also learn the chromatic scales.
This grade covers the tonic, dominant and subdominant chords, and intervals between any two notes (major, minor, perfect, augmented and diminished).
You'll learn how to read the alto clef (used by the viola) as well as lots of other facts about the standard orchestral instruments.
Grade 4 is an ideal preparation course if you are thinking about taking grade 5 sometime in the future.
Please note that the grade 4 course/syllabus overlaps with grade 3, so we will also review some topics from grade 3 (those that normally cause the most confusion!)
The course includes a complete PDF with detailed lessons, exercises, and a practice test in the style of the modern online multiple-choice exam. All answers are also included!
Who this course is for:
- Candidates preparing to take the ABRSM Grade 4 music theory exam.