Rockschool Ukulele Grade 5 – (2020)

Overview

Rockschool Ukulele Grade 5 (2020) is the official Grade 5 examination book from RSL Awards, designed for players who have consolidated their intermediate ukulele technique and are ready for more demanding repertoire and musical interpretation.

The book provides a complete preparation resource, combining six contemporary performance pieces, technical exercises, supporting tests and professionally recorded backing tracks. At this level, students are expected to demonstrate stronger rhythmic control, coordination, expression and stylistic awareness, with greater opportunity for individual improvisation.

Key Features

• Official Rockschool Ukulele 2020 Grade 5 syllabus

• Six contemporary performance pieces

• Repertoire spanning rock, pop, soul, funk and acoustic styles

• Professionally recorded backing tracks and audio examples

• Fact Files and Track Walkthroughs

• Technical Exercises covering scales, arpeggios and chords

• Sight Reading

• Improvisation & Interpretation

• Melodic and Harmonic Recall Ear Tests

• General Musicianship Questions

• Complete material for Grade 5 examination preparation

Featured Repertoire

The six Grade 5 performance pieces are:

• Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley

• Get Lucky – Daft Punk

• Songbird – Eva Cassidy

• Wanted Dead or Alive – Bon Jovi

• Enter Sandman – Metallica

• Pick Up the Pieces – Average White Band

The repertoire gives students contrasting performance contexts, from acoustic and melodic playing to rock, funk and rhythm-focused material.

What Students Will Develop

Students will develop:

• More advanced rhythmic accuracy and coordination

• Greater control of strumming and picking techniques

• Stronger chord and harmonic vocabulary

• Improved scale and arpeggio fluency

• More confident improvisation

• Greater control of tone and dynamics

• Musical phrasing and expression

• Stylistic awareness across contrasting genres

• Melodic and harmonic aural recognition

• More independent and assured performance skills

RSL describes Grade 5 candidates as having fully consolidated their intermediate playing and developed greater use of appropriate technique, more complex rhythms, coordination, musical understanding, expression and stylistic awareness.

Technical Exercises

Grade 5 technical work is divided into three groups:

Group A – Scales

Students work on the specified major, minor, pentatonic and blues-scale material for Grade 5, developing fluency across the instrument and greater control of more complex rhythmic patterns.

Group B – Arpeggios

The Grade 5 arpeggio requirements extend students' knowledge of major, minor and seventh-type harmony while developing coordination and positional control.

Group C – Chords

Chord exercises develop more advanced chord vocabulary and rhythmic application, supporting the harmonic demands of the Grade 5 repertoire.

All technical exercises are performed in the keys, octaves and tempos specified by the 2020 syllabus.

Product Details

• Brand: Rockschool / RSL Awards

• Series: Rockschool Ukulele

• Instrument: Ukulele

• Level: Intermediate

• Book: Grade 5

• Syllabus: 2020

• Publisher: RSL Awards

• Publication Year: 2020

• Pages: 52

• Product Code: RSK200130

• Includes: Performance pieces, technical exercises and supporting tests

• Audio: MP3 audio / professionally recorded backing tracks