Showcasing Rock & Pop 2018: Keyboards
The final video in our new syllabus showcase series is now live, and we’re ending with Keyboards. Professional keyboard player Rosa Ullmann takes you through some of the [read more...]
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Showcasing Rock & Pop 2018: Vocals
The latest showcase video in our series is now live. This time we’re looking at some of the songs on the new Rock & Pop 2018 Vocals syllabus, and have called on session [read more...]
Showcasing Rock & Pop 2018: Bass
We’ve recently been revealing some of the well-known songs set to feature on our new Rock & Pop 2018 syllabuses for Guitar and Drums. We’re now setting the spotlight [read more...]
Improvising in a pop style
Although ‘pop’ is a very loose term (from the word ‘popular’), the common consensus is that pop music as we know it today derives from rock ’n’ roll music in the [read more...]
Shining the light on Session Skills: Open the new books and listen to the music
Hey Rock & Pop musicians, hope you’re all enjoying your music. I know that many of you are taking Rock & Pop exams right now or in the next month. A couple weeks [read more...]
Improvising in a metal style
Metal is a genre of rock music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. Often viewed as the more extreme end of the scale [read more...]
Improvising in a funk style
The funk style was born around the 1960’s and utilises features and sounds common to soul, jazz and R’n’B music. Funk typically reverses the trends [read more...]
Improvising in a ballad style
A ballad is a narrative verse set to music, which originated from the medieval French style of musical verse called ‘chanson balladée’ or ‘ballade’, which were [read more...]
Big Rock Stars
We all just want to be Big Rock Stars and live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars… you know the deal. It’s a dream that many aspire to. There is a road, a process to [read more...]
Question Mark? and the Mysterians
There have been a lot of questions coming in through the Rock & Pop blog, so here are some thoughts in response from me, Trinity’s Rock & Pop Czar. These are valid [read more...]
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