AMEB NSW Examinations for Classical and Contemporary Guitar.

Help, resources & planning

On this page you will find plans for each step of the CPM Guitar Examinations that you can download as PDF files.  I have adapted them from the 2001 CPM Guitar Handbook (by AMEB NSW) to help you prepare and tick off the work as you revise.

I will also provide online tools to help you prepare for the aural ans theoretical sides of the examination.  Don’t forget to visit the Guitar Matters & Music Ed Links pages for more links and inspiration.

AMEB (Classical) Guitar

• AMEB Technical Workbook – Buy it for all grades, online at Musicroom.com.au

CPM (Contemporary Popular Music) Guitar

- Please note the following plans give suggested pieces from past students – they are not in the booklets published by the AMEB -

• CPM Guitar Plan – Advancing Step 1

• CPM Guitar Plan – Advancing Step 2

• CPM Guitar Plan – Advancing Step 3

Resources for Preparation

• Guitar Resource Centre – An excellent flash tool with a tuner, chord finder, scales and more

• Morten Faerestrand Guitar Lessons (Jazz Orientated) with chords, sweeps, PDF’s and videos. You will be hard pressed to find better lessons and his free chord sight-reading course is excellent (Link to old Blog)

• St Thomas CPM 1 Chord Chart with Melody notes at 5th Position

• Desafinado CPM 2 Chord Chart with link to Guitar Pro File

• Desafinado Garageband File for Practice, 36Mb iLife 2011

• Round Midnight CPM 3 Chord Chart

• C Major Scale Patterns for Note Reading