Showcasing Rock & Pop 2018: Drums
Following our reveal of some the Rock & Pop 2018 Guitar syllabus songs, we’re now moving the spotlight to drums. Watch session drummer Matt Brooks put his spin on five [read more...]
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A taster of the new songs on our Rock & Pop 2018 syllabus
Over the next few weeks we’ll be revealing some of the great new songs appearing on our Rock & Pop 2018 syllabus in a series of video showcases. The first spotlights [read more...]
Rock & Pop 2018 is coming soon
We’re very excited to announce that the new Rock & Pop 2018 syllabus will be launching in September 2017, with exams starting 1 January 2018. As featured in the above [read more...]
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...]
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...]
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