Percussion Drum grades

[Pete C]

Anyone know what the options for exam boards are to do drum grades? Something with some awareness of jazz would be good.

I know there is Trinity which appears to do a rock and pop option (not what I want) or "drum kit" which appears to be a classical approach. They also seem to do grades 1-8 and something called drum kit foundation, intermediate and advanced repertoire but I'm not sure if these relate to the grades or not.

There is also Rockschool again not what I'm interested in.

And ABRSM though again this seems more geared to classical percussion.

 

[griff136]

Hi Pete,

I thought there were only 3 grades of drumming - loud, very loud and annoyingly loud!

on a serious note if you dont want to do an exam you could instead go and do a performance assesment - more details here:

http://www.abrsm.org/en/exams/performanceassessment/

 

[davidk]

Hi Pete

Besides Trinity, Rockschool and ABRSM, there is also London College of Music - LCM. Like the boards you mentioned, this is Ofqual regulated and offers grades 1 - 8 as well as diploma options. Their percussion repertoire lists are at http://www.uwl.ac.uk/lcmexams/subjects/Percussion.jsp.

 

[Pete C]

Thanks for the info guys. I have decided to look at the Trinity Guildhall grades. Even if I don't get around to doing any actual exams, I thought it would structure my practise. The books are easily available locally and there seems to be a few teachers around who are familiar with the syllabus too.