Guild Auditions

Adrienne's students are encouraged to participate in the annual American College of Music National Piano Playing Auditions, also known as "Guild Auditions," in May or June of each year. The purpose of Guild is to promote piano study among students of all ages and abilities. Students should strive to maintain a piano repertoire of between 7 and 10 pieces (though they may start out with only a few short pieces).

Below are some materials that will help students prepare for Guild, including a planning sheet, scale fingerings, cadences, and ear-training drills. 

Planning Sheet for 2013

Ear-Training Drills

Based on the Ear-Training musicianship phase requirements listed in the Guild Syllabus.

Elementary

Graphical Scale Sheets

These charts provide students with a simple, visual way of learning conventional scale fingerings. I've used a gray-scale color for the black keys in order to save ink. Blank charts are also available on the printable resources page. Look for them in my Box files. I'll have the two-octave harmonic minor scales available soon. 

Major Scales (one octave)

Harmonic Minor Scales (one octave)

Major Scales (Two Octaves)

Cadences for Elementary B - F

These are I-V-I cadences in three positions for major keys commonly used in repertoire for the Elementary classifications. Note that the first few Guild classifications require only the root position cadence.

Cadences for Intermediate A - Prep D

These are the full three-position cadences on the staff. 

Major Keys

C
G
D
A
E
B
F
  

 

 Minor Keys

a
e
b
f
c
g
d
  

 

If you cannot view the notation in the files because you don't have the Maestro font installed in you rcomputer, please click HERE to download the Maestro font. The file is a .zip file and will download automatically to your default downloads folder. Unzip the files into your WIndows/Fonts folder.