Scales and Arpeggios
Every major and harmonic minor key from the marimba skills test, with Dr. Shuey's stickings. Pick a key, then press play to hear the whole page at your tempo, one section flowing into the next, and follow along as it plays.
C major
Major:
Harmonic minor:
The order is the one on the test: chord inversions and arpeggio inversion permutations with four mallets, the scale with the inner mallets, and the arpeggio with two. Three octaves, from memory, at quarter note = 100. Draw keys picks four major and four harmonic minor keys at random, the way the panel does.
Mallets are numbered 1 to 4 from left to right: 1 and 2 in the left hand, 3 and 4 in the right. The printed packet is written out in major; the harmonic minor keys here use the same pattern and stickings, with the third and sixth lowered and the raised seventh marked.
C major
Part of the Skills Assessment Test
Four major and four harmonic minor keys are drawn, and all eight must pass. Rudiments and sight-reading make up the rest of the test.