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About Rockschool & exams

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James explains how the Rockschool Grade 8 syllabus works and what taking the exam involves - from the pieces and scales to sight-reading and improvisation.

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- 01. Welcome to the online course
  1:46
- 02. Meet James Beckwith
  1:42
- 03. Meet Ross Stanley
  3:30
- 04. Meet Marina Haywood-Lieberman
  4:32
- 01. These Are The Days, Jamie Cullum (Performance)
  3:28
- 02. Straighten Up And Fly Right, Diana Krall (Performance)
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  4:08
- 03. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen (Performance)
  5:19
- 04. Nosso Samba, Noam Lederman (Performance)
  3:18
- 05. Freightshaker, Simon Troup (Performance)
  3:20
- 06. Mind The Gaps, Kit Morgan (Performance)
  3:41
- 01. These Are The Days, Jamie Callum (Lesson)
  12:45
- 02. Straighten Up And Fly Right, Diana Krall (Lesson)
  15:34
- 03. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen (Lesson)
  11:22
- 04. Nosso Samba, Noam Lederman (Lesson)
  14:48
- 05. Freightshaker, Simon Troup (Lesson)
  18:29
- 06. Mind The Gaps, Kit Morgan (Lesson)
  19:07
- 01. Improvisation - the next level
  1:33
- 02. Advanced blues form
  6:23
- 03. Advanced blues demonstration
  2:29
- 04. Advanced improvisation techniques
  8:08
- 01. Intro to scales, arpeggios and voicings - why they're useful
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  2:49
- 02. Scales - Grade 8
  3:05
- 03. Arpeggios - Grade 8
  5:24
- 04. Chord voicings - Grade 8
  2:45
- 01. Site reading with the "KAT TRAP" method
  9:04
- 01. Course outro
  0:49
- 02. About Rockschool & exams
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  0:55

Lesson transcript

Introduction to the Rock School Syllabus

So this course has been based around the Rock School syllabus.

Overview of the Syllabus

Now, the Rock School syllabus, if you don't know, offers exams on everything that you've just learned. We're talking about:

The pieces
The scales
The sight reading
All the stuff about improvisation

Pretty much everything we've covered is part of the Rock School syllabus.

Why Take the Exam?

If you're interested in taking that further, then why not do an exam? The Rock School exams are a great way of shaping your mind to approach the music world in a different way.

You know, this is the music of:

Rock
Pop
Jazz
Soul
Funk
Reggae

We're talking about all the cool music!

A Goal Worth Pursuing

What better way to really learn and refine your abilities on this than to take an exam on it? It's a great goal to be able to work towards, so I highly recommend doing it.

If you haven't already, check out the links on the website where you can: