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





