Music Notation

At Debut you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Drawing and recognising treble and bass clefs
•  Drawing different note values (musical symbols)
•  Writing and identifying accidentals
•  Writing and understanding barlines and repeat marks
•  Writing and identifying time signatures
•  Understanding note lengths: adding barlines and time signatures, including double barlines
•  Recognising note lengths, and being able to add missing notes and rests
•  Understanding how to beam notes
•  Understanding equivalent notes and rests
•  Note naming, and identifying the correct clef
•  Identifying accidentals
•  Identifying chords
•  Understanding and identifying melodic intervals
•  Understanding and identifying harmonic intervals
•  Understanding tempo markings
•  Recognising the note values of: whole, half, quarter and eighth notes
•  Understanding how to group notes and rests
•  Naming flats, sharps, and naturals on the stave
•  Understanding note “tails”
•  Identifying pitch ranges: E on bass clef- middle C/ middle C to top G on the treble clef
•  Understanding and recognising tones and semitones

Popular Music Harmony

At Debut you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying scale intervals

• Writing scales with accidentals

• Writing scales with key signatures

• Applying scale knowledge

• Identifying arpeggios

• Basic chord knowledge

• Understanding and writing scales and arpeggios in a major key

• Identifying tones and semitones

• Identifying C/ G major scales, chords and arpeggios

• Understanding major scale formula

• Identifying C/ G key signatures

Band Knowledge

At Debut you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Identification of keys on acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Understanding vocal pitch ranges

• Understanding and identifying a variety of instrumental notation

• Understanding and identifying instrumental scores and clef

Band Analysis

At Debut you will cover the following aspects of band analysis

• Understanding scores with up to two different instruments

• Identification of tempo including an understanding of BPM

• Recognising time signatures

• Identification of clefs

• Recognising keys

• Understanding pitch

• Understanding duration and rhythm

• Chord analysis

• Recognising melodic and harmonic Intervals

• Understanding note values and equivalent rests

• Understanding the use of barlines

• Identifying different parts of band instruments

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 1 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding note lengths and adding barlines

• Recognising note values and adding missing notes

• Understanding how to beam notes of different values

• Understanding equivalent notes and rests

• Understanding note names

• Recognising and adding clefs

• Identifying chords#

• Recognising and understanding accidentals: sharps, flats and naturals

• Identifying and using repeat marks

• Identifying and understanding dynamics

• Identifying and understanding articulations

• Understanding the major scale

• Writing accidentals

• Identifying the 2/4 time signature

• Understanding ties

• Understanding dotted notes

• Recognising dynamics: p, f, cresc. and dim.

• Recognising articulations: staccato, legato, accents

• Identifying pitch ranges: D below 1 ledger line on the bass clef to D above middle C, B to B in the treble

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 1 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying major 2nd intervals

• Identifying major 3rd intervals

• Identifying scale intervals

• Writing scales with accidentals

• Writing scales with key signatures

• Understanding, and adding, accidentals

• Identifying arpeggios

• Understanding, and writing, chords correctly

• Applying chord knowledge

• Recognising tones and semitones

• Applying scale knowledge

• Understanding tones and semitones

• Identifying F major scales, chords and arpeggios

• Understanding major chord formula

• Recognising the F key signature

Band Knowledge

At Grade 1 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Identification of keys on acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Understanding vocal pitch ranges

• Understanding and identifying varied instrumental notation

• Understanding and identifying instrumental scores and clefs

Band Analysis

At Grade 1 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to three different instruments

• Understanding time signatures

• Recognising melodic intervals

• Understanding note values and their equivalent rests

• Understanding and recognising music symbols and directions

• Understanding rhythms and note values

• Recognising time signatures

• Identification of clefs

• Recognising keys

• Understanding pitch, and pitch range of specific instruments

• Chord analysis

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 2 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding note lengths and adding barlines

• Recognising note values (including 16ths) and adding time signatures

• Understanding time signatures

• Understanding how to beam notes of different values

• Adding together equivalent notes and rests, including full bar rests

• Understanding note names: two ledger lines

• Adding missing notes

• Recognising clefs

• Identifying chords

• Understanding repeats: 1st and 2nd time repeats, anacrusis

• Identifying and understanding dynamics: mp and mf

• Identifying and understanding articulation

• Understanding scales: major and minor

• Understanding grace notes

• Recognising note ranges: 2 ledger notes above and below

• Identifying pitch ranges: 2 ledger lines either side of bass and treble clef- bottom C to top C

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 2 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying major and minor thirds

• Identifying scale intervals

• Recognising scales, and understanding how to write them with the correct accidentals

• Applying scale knowledge

• Identifying arpeggios

• Applying chord knowledge

• Recognising tones and semitone

• Recognising chord patterns

• Recognising D, Bb major scales and chords

• Understanding relative minors: 2 sharps and flats

• Understanding minor chord formula

• Recognising the natural minor scale

Band Knowledge

At Grade 2 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Identification of keys: acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Understanding vocal pitch ranges

• Understanding and identifying varied instrumental notation

• Understanding and identifying instrumental scores and clefs

Band Analysis

At Grade 2 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to three different instruments

• Identification of tempo

• Understanding time signatures

• Identification of clefs

• Recognising keys

• Understanding pitch ranges across different instrumental disciplines

• Understanding duration and rhythm

• Chord analysis

• Recognising chord symbols

• Understanding intervals

• Understanding note values

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 3 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding note lengths, and adding barlines

• Recognising note values

• Beaming notes correctly

• Understanding and adding time signatures: 3/8, 6/8, 12/8

• Understanding how to beam notes of different values, and adding missing notes where applicable

• Understanding and adding equivalent notes and rests

• Understanding note names: up to three ledger lines

• Recognising clefs

• Recognising notes on the stave, and understanding enharmonics

• Understanding repeat marks in beats and bars: Segno, D.S/ D.C al Coda and Fine

• Identifying and understanding dynamics: pp and ff

• Identifying and understanding articulation

• Understanding scales: major and minor

• Understanding triplets and swing notation

• Recognising improv directions

• Understanding vibrato

• Understanding fermata

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 3 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying intervals: perfect 4th and 5th

• Applying interval knowledge

• Identifying scale intervals

• Recognising tones and semitones

• Understanding, and writing, scales with accidentals

• Understanding, and writing, major pentatonic and minor pentatonic scales

• Understanding pentatonic melodies: major and minor

• Understanding, and applying, scale knowledge, including the harmonised major scale

• Identifying arpeggios

• Understanding chords, and harmonised major scales, including diatonic chords

• Understanding, and writing, chords

• Recognising chord charts

• Creating chord charts from roman numerals

• Application of chord knowledge

• Recognising melodic and harmonic intervals

• Understanding notation: 3 sharps and flats

Band Knowledge

At Grade 3 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Identification of keys on acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Understanding vocal pitch ranges

• Understanding and identifying varied instrumental notation

• Understanding and identifying instrumental scores and clefs

• Understanding and recognising musical symbols on instrumental scores

Band Analysis

At Grade 3 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to three different instruments

• Identification of tempo including an understanding of BPM

• Understanding time signature

• Recognising chord symbols

• Instrument-specific techniques

• Understanding pitch

• Recognising dynamic markings

• Identifying scalic patterns

• Recognising Intervals

• Recognising arpeggiated chords

• Understanding articulation

• Recognising keys

• Genre-specific features of the music

• Understanding note values: including equivalent notes and rests

• Understanding musical devices in a variety of band scores

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 4 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding rhythm: halving and doubling rhythmic values, 6/8 and 12/8, half notes and triplets

• Understanding pitch: 8va and 8vb symbols, ledger lines

• Understanding dynamics and articulation

• Re-writing scores with a new time signature

• Understanding and recognising trills

• Identifying note names up to four ledger lines

• Understanding time signatures of the same sound with different notation

• Recognising triplets

• Understanding the use of key signatures and accidentals in major and minor scales

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 4 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying intervals: major 6th and 7th

• Understanding scales: pentatonic and variants

• Applying scale knowledge: Blues scale

• Adding accidentals to scales

• Writing and understanding scales

• Writing and understanding accidentals

• Naming chords: maj7, min7, dom7, m7b5

• Applying chord knowledge: roman numeral progressions

• Understanding key signatures up to four sharps and flats (Emaj, Abmaj)

Band Knowledge

At Grade 4 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Identification of keys: acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Understanding vocal pitch ranges

• Different techniques used across instrumental disciplines

• Understanding and identifying varied instrumental notation

• Understanding and identifying instrumental scores and clefs

• Understanding of musical symbols

Band Analysis

At Grade 4 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to four different instruments

• Recognising keys

• Recognising chord symbols, including roman numerals

• Instrumental features and techniques across all disciplines

• Understanding tempo markings

• Recognising note values and duration

• Recognising pitches across different instrumental notation

• Understanding dynamic markings

• Understanding articulation markings

• Understanding melodic intervals

• Recognising musical devices on a multi-instrumental score

• Recognising musical genres

• Understanding genre-specific instrumental techniques

• Understanding scales

• Recognising key musical terminology on a notated score

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 5 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding rhythm: halving and doubling rhythmic values, 6/8 and 12/8, half notes and triplets

• Understanding pitch: 15ma and 15mb symbols, ledger lines

• Understanding dynamics and articulation: fp, and spf

• Re-writing scores with a new time signature

• Understanding the use of key signatures and accidentals in major and minor scales

• Recognising pitches across different types of scores

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 5 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying intervals: minor 6th and 7ths

• Scale identification: harmonic minor scale

• Applying scale knowledge

• Adding accidentals to scales: major and minor

• Writing scales with the correct clef, key signature, and accidentals (where appropriate)

• Chords: naming chords and their inversions (1st and 2nd)

• Identifying chords: transposing roman numeral charts

• Applying chord knowledge

• Recognising melodic and harmonic intervals

• Understanding chord sequences

• Understanding slash chord notation, and the natural minor with V chord

• Understanding the transposition of chord symbols

• Identifying key signatures: up to 5 sharps and flats

Band Knowledge

At Grade 5 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Recognising genre-specific techniques applied to all instrumental disciplines

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Understanding the use of technology with band instruments

• Identification of keys: acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Understanding vocal pitch ranges

• Understanding of varied music notation and clefs

• Recognition of pitch ranges across SATB vocal ranges

Band Analysis

At Grade 5 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to five different instruments

• Recognising keys

• Understanding instrument-specific techniques

• Chord analysis, including inversions

• Scale identification

• Understanding various types of notation

• Recognising rhythms

• Recognising musical devices

• Recognising musical styles

• Understanding the parts, and functions, of band instruments

• Knowing, and applying, articulation and dynamics across varied scores

• Recognising scales: major and minor

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 6 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding rhythm: double dotted rhythms and less-common time signatures

• Rhythm: rewriting with a new time signature, and as compound and simple time

• Understanding pitch: double accidentals

• Understanding pitch: writing enharmonic pitches

• Understanding pitch: enharmonic transposition

• Recognising note values: 16th, triplet, double dots

• Understanding time signatures: 2/2, 3/2, 4/2

• Understanding key signatures: double flats and sharps

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 6 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying intervals: b5, b2

• Understanding modes: modal basics, modal transformation, modal differences, modal knowledge, writing out modes in notes and note names

• Recognising modes: ionian & aeolian, dorian & mixolydian

• Understanding, and identifying scales: country, pentatonic, major, minor, and blues

• Chromaticism: completing chromatic scales, recognising gaps in chromatic scales, writing out chromatic scales, and identifying chromatic fragments

• Transposition: transposing in major 3rds and perfect 5ths

• Transposing chord charts

• Understanding chords and chord inversions: 3rd inversion

• Adding chords: 6th, sus 2 & 4, diatonic chords including maj 9th, min 9th and dom 9th

• Identifying harmonic and melodic intervals

• Identifying chords: naming chords, chord charts, chord sequences, and use of roman numeral notation

• Understanding key signatures up to seven sharps and flats

Band Knowledge

At Grade 6 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum kit parts

• Genre- specific instrumental techniques of band instrument

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Understanding the use of music technology with band instruments

• Understanding instrumental performance technique

• Identification of keys: acoustic and electronic piano keyboards

• Identification of vocal techniques

• Understanding the function of a microphone

• Understanding how a singer uses music technology to improve performance

• Genre- specific instrumental techniques of brass instruments

• Identification of parts on a brass instrument

• Identifying key musical terms associated with band performance

• Recognising instrument- specific techniques

• Recognising notation across different instrumental disciplines

• Identification of instrumental parts across different disciplines

• Identification of pitch range across different instrumental disciplines

Band Analysis

At Grade 6 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to eight different instruments

• Understanding the use of improvisation techniques

• Genre- specific techniques: style and content

• Understanding of stylistic traits across varied instruments

• Understanding the harmonic content in band scores

• Understanding score writing

• Understanding the transposition of instruments whilst score writing

• Understanding musical devices: melodic, harmonic, rhythmic

• Recognising instrument-specific techniques

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 7 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Understanding rhythm: 32nd and 64th notes, and equivalent rests.

• Rhythmic values: halving rhythmic values, doubling rhythmic values, working with less-common time signatures.

• Understanding pitch: enharmonic transpositions

• Transposing and re-writing scores across different instruments and clefs

• Understanding time signatures: 5/4, 6/4, 7/4

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 7 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Identifying compound intervals

• Understanding modes: ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, and mixolydian

• Recognising modes and modal differences, and writing out modes in notation

• Transposing melodies: 2nds, 4ths, 6ths

• Chord identification: diatonic 11 and 13

• Recognising harmonic and melodic intervals

• Understanding chord inversions

Band Knowledge

At Grade 7 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Identification of Drum parts

• Genre-specific techniques used across different instrumental disciplines

• Identification of Guitar and Bass Guitar parts

• Understanding the use of music technology with band instruments

• Understanding instrumental performance technique

• Identification of keys: acoustic and electronic instruments

• Identification of vocal techniques

• Understanding the function of a microphone

• Understanding how a singer uses music technology to improve performance

• Genre-specific instrumental techniques of brass instruments

• Identification of parts on a brass instrument

• Key musical terms associated with band performance

• Recognising instrument-specific techniques

• Recognising notation across different instrumental disciplines

• Identification of pitch range across different instrumental disciplines

• Understanding instrumental-specific notation

• Recognising melodic ornamentation

• Understanding transposing instruments

• Recognising different parts on band and brass instruments

• How to develop your performance technique across different instrumental disciplines

• Interpreting musical directions on a score for up to 8 players

• Knowing the pitch range across instrumental disciplines

Band Analysis

At Grade 7 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to eight different instruments

• Understanding instrument-specific techniques

• Re-writing a score for transposing instruments

• Chordal analysis and stylistics traits of band and brass instruments

• Interpreting a score for up to eight players

• Understating improvisation techniques across instrumental disciplines

• Understanding style and content of specific instruments

• Recognising the stylistics traits of varied instruments

• Understanding musical devices across instrumental disciplines: melodic/ harmonic/ rhythmic

• Recognising the stylistic traits in different instrumental disciplines

• Generic band score analysis

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.

Music Notation

At Grade 8 you will cover the following aspects of music notation:

• Clefs: rewriting into other clefs

• Rhythm: adding missing time signatures, tuplet ratios, and beaming into different note groupings, and equivalent rests

• Recognising music notation used by different instrumental groups including alto

• Understanding odd note groupings
  Recognising time signatures: 5/8, 7/8

Popular Music Harmony

At Grade 8 you will cover the following aspects of popular music harmony:

• Understanding scales: melodic and harmonic minor scales

• Identifying scales and using accidentals in contrasting melody lines: altered, whole tone, diminished, melodic minor

• Writing out scales with different clefs and varied pitch

• Understanding the use of accidentals in varied modes

• Transposing melodies across different instrumental disciplines

• Understanding chords: extended and altered

• Identifying intervals of varied keys and clefs

• Recognising all keys and understanding how to transpose into any key

Band Knowledge

At Grade 8 you will cover the following aspects of band knowledge:

• Understanding how music technology is used: identification of effects and how they are used

• Instrument-specific effects and how to recognise them

• How music technology effects have changed over the decades

• Identification of parts on a string instrument

• Understanding how to play a stringed instrument, the physical differences between them, and recognising instrument-specific traits

• Understanding instrument-specific techniques across different disciplines

• Understanding and recognising instrumental notation

• Interpreting musical devices on a score

• Recognising different clefs

• Recognising the pitch range of all instruments studied

Band Analysis

At Grade 8 you will cover the following aspects of band analysis:

• Understanding scores with up to eight different instruments

• Instrument-specific techniques

• Re-writing a score for transposing instruments

• Chordal analysis and stylistics traits of band and brass instruments

• Interpreting a score for up to eight players

• Understating improvisation techniques across instrumental disciplines

• Understanding style and content of specific instruments

• Recognising the stylistics traits of varied instruments

• Understanding musical devices across instrumental disciplines: melodic/ harmonic/ rhythmic

• Recognising the stylistic traits in different instrumental disciplines

• Generic band score analysis

• Recognising scales, modes, and modulation

Digital Popular Music Theory Exams

We’ve been working hard to make our Popular Music Theory Exams available online, and we’re delighted to announce that is now possible to continue your musical progression from the comfort of your own home.

The content of the exams remains largely unchanged and an interactive sheet music editor means you and your students’ exam experience will be straightforward and accessible.

You can learn more about how our Digital Popular Music Theory exams work, including how to enter for an individual exam or arrange a private exam day, here, and download the full list of FAQs below.

During your music theory exam, you will be expected to complete some tasks which involve writing notation. These are completed using software called ‘Flat’, which is embedded into the online exam system. Please download the guidance below for instructions on how to access the software and some sample tasks to help you practise prior to your exam day.