Trinity College London, the international examinations board offers accredited qualifications in the performing arts.

"Trinity conduct over 500,000 assessments each year, from graded examinations and certificates to diplomas and higher-level qualifications. Trinity offers a flexible range of syllabuses, across a variety of teaching and learning styles, to encourage and motivate students to achieve their personal goals".

Trinity's range of qualifications in Music is extensive with syllabuses covering a range of styles. As an organisation they work in around 50 countries.

There are assessments for those who have recently started to develop their instrumental skills through a tiered programme of grade examinations

The candidate is at the heart of all their work and Trinity's examiners, all of whom are professional musicians and fully trained assessors, will do all they can to make candidates feel relaxed in the examination room. They place an emphasis on evaluating what candidates can do and seek to make the assessment experience as positive as possible

If you want to study the Trinity College grades with me then I have an excellent pass record.
The examinations were held locally in West Cumbria with a specialist drum examiner traveling to the region especially to grade drummers from various teachers throughout north and west Cumbria..

The last session of grade examinations were in December 2019
I arranged the venue myself and got some more good results from grade 1 to grade 8 and one Diploma LTCL (2 steps beyond grade 8).

There were 14 pupils entered and 14 passes. Mostly Merits and distinctions.

In past years Passes, Merits and Distinctions have been achieved in all grades to Diploma level. As you know, it all changed for us in 2020. so i have been promoting the Digital Grade entries. we record locally and send a video for assessment. 

Interested?

Ask me and we can have a look through the books together and work through the rudiments and chosen pieces. You will have to have your own copy of the book which also includes online access to music to accompany certain pieces. With the higher grades the online music includes the solo pieces as well to assist in your preparation.

The books are available through your local Music Shop. I get mine from Billy Bowmans in Cockermouth. They start at £15.00 and go up to £23.00 and include an access code for the music. Each book covers 3 grades.

The grade 3 and 4 examinations took 20 minutes in total if taken in person.

If sent in as a recording it has to be recorded in one session on a phone or laptop. This may take 10 minutes. It can be done multiple times and the best one sellected and uploaded to Trinity.

Each grade has it's own price. The more involved the examination, the higher the price.

They started this year at £42.00 for the grade 1. Grade 8 is around £90.00.

apply online and away tou go.

You get a certificate when you pass as well as an examination report form, detailing how you did and how the marks were put together. this is true for in person and digital exams.