Trinity College London Rock & Pop: Guitar - Grade Initial

Trinity College London’s Rock and Pop graded songbooks contain real songs from legendary artists, with specially written performance notes for the Rock and Pop exams from 2018.

This book contains material intended for Guitar at initial grade.

At Initial you can develop a range of skills and techniques including power chords, rhythm of the riff, melodic playing and chord accuracy. In the exam you’ll play a setlist of three songs and demonstrate your playback or improvising skills. 

Songlist

1. 20th Century Boy (Personality: T.Rex)
2. Lily Was Here (Personality: David A. Stewart feat, Candy Dulfer)
3. Hole In My Shoe (Personality: Traffic)
4. Mountain At My Gates (Personality: Foals)
5. Orange Crush (Personality: REM)
6. Runaway Train (Personality: Soul Asylum)
7. Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Personality: Nirvana)
8. Wicked Game (Personality: Chris Isaak)

The Initial Guitar songbook includes everything you need for your exam, including sheet music for eight songs, along with performance hints and tips and background information for each song.

It also contains a code that gives access to downloadable demo and backing tracks for each of the songs.