Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, Ross Brennan
I have been a Trinity Rock & Pop examiner for nearly two years now and in that time I have examined in the UK and abroad, including a couple of overseas tours, one across [read more...]
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Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, Moira Hartley
It’s always exciting to be offered an examining tour, especially when it is to a part of the world that you’ve never been before. There’s an equal amount of trepidation [read more...]
Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, Sally Martin-Brown
I have just returned from an examining tour of Bangkok, Thailand and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and am now travelling round the UK. I would firstly like to say thank you to all [read more...]
Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, Mike Mansbridge
‘Music can only really be alive when there are listeners who are really alive’ – Aaron Copland, What to Listen for in Music. About sixteen years ago, I started to [read more...]
Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, Matt Fisher
I love travelling, visiting new places, meeting new people and watching musicians perform, so having the opportunity to do this in my work with Trinity is one of the most [read more...]
Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, JJ Wheeler
In my day-to-day life as a musician, be it performing, composing, teaching or examining, I interact with audiences and, most importantly, communicate with audiences. Music is [read more...]
Improvising in a shuffle style
Shuffle is a feel or groove normally associated with electric blues and some rock ‘n’ roll, but also has a significant stylistic overlap with the swing feel in jazz. [read more...]
Improvising in a fusion style
Fusion is a very broad term, used for types of music which fuse two or more styles together in a strong coalition to create a fusion of the genres. In the Trinity Rock & [read more...]
Improvising in an r‘n’b style
R‘n’b is a broadly defined genre, known for its sophisticated production techniques, virtuosic singing and commercial focus. It’s not to be confused with rhythm and [read more...]
Improvising in a soul style
Soul is a popular form of music born in the United States of America, in the late 1950s/early 60s. It’s largely an African-American derived style, incorporating elements of [read more...]
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