Grade examination series 1: amateur grade 10 is equivalent to professional grade.

Amateur examination is really in full swing, especially among some parents of piano children. I remember about 10 years ago, even some parents asked: Teacher Peng, what is your piano level? I was really shocked when I was asked for the first time, hehe, I didn't get in, it was level 0. It seems that I talked with Mr. Shao about this joke last month. If a teacher is an amateur, how can he be a teacher? No matter how high the level is, it is also the level of amateur performance, which has almost nothing to do with teaching. Using this to measure the level of teachers will probably not happen again in recent years, because most parents have heard the word amateur in amateur exams. However, how big the gap between amateur exams and majors is, has become a concern of many parents. The amateur level examination tracks are arranged from low to high according to the difficulty of music technology and performance. Although it is often inappropriate (because it is difficult to arrange it properly), there is basically a standard-the standard of musical difficulty. But for a professional performer, even a piece with simple skills will be taken seriously, and it is an endless pursuit to express its musical connotation. A chapter of Mozart's piano sonata may be easily played by countless children, but it needs a pianist to practice and ponder it thousands of times. At present, the amateur examination in China is basically to pass the grade as long as the sound in music is arranged, and sometimes it can pass the grade even without arrangement. Really, Lao Peng himself had students who couldn't play four or two songs, and finally got the certificate of 10, which was a few years ago. These two years should be relatively easy, hehe, but I haven't participated in the exam students in these two years. This is the fundamental difference between amateur performance examination and professional performance. The amateur performance test is easy to pass, that is, the judges of the amateur performance test think that you have basically finished the sound; Professional level is difficult to achieve, because the judges at this time are the music itself. To tell the truth, amateur 10 music is definitely not easy in terms of technical difficulty or musical performance, and it is definitely not easy for a professional piano player to take it down casually. Not only amateur level 10, but also music of grades 8 and 9, and music of grades 6 and 7 is not easy. So why can children of a few years old easily pass these levels of exams? This is mainly because the requirements of amateur rating are too amateur, not amateur music. Any piece of music is very simple in the amateur exam, and it is difficult for any piece of music to go to the professional side. So strictly speaking, professional performances can't be graded, and the idea of trying to grade professional performances is absolutely amateur, hehe.