Rockschool Band Based Keys - Grade 3 (Book + CD)

This is another fantastic syllabus from Rockschool that's designed to put Keyboard players right at the heart of a band - where most, if not all, modern keyboard players perform their music.

A great feature of these books is that the repertoire at Grade 3, 4 and 5 is drawn from Rockschool's highly successful Guitar, Bass and Drum syllabuses so students can perform the songs with other musicians at the same level.

The ability to play realistic parts while interacting with other musicians is invaluable training in itself and a feature that isn’t known to be available in any other syllabus. The pieces also recognisably vary in musical style, giving students greater freedom of choice.

The Rockschool packs have standard notation plus a CD. We encourage everyone to be creative with the Rockschool tunes so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your playing style and musical approach.

Each book includes a CD with full stereo mixes of each tune with spoken two bar count ins for each piece.

Rockschool grade books have everything you need to prepare for Grade exams (for players who want to develop performance and technical skills) and Performance certificates (for players who want to perform in a range of styles)

Grade 3

This pack contains the tunes from Grade 3 in Level 1. This is for those who are building up confidence in the fundamentals of playing.

Pieces will be no longer than 2 and a half minutes to enable the player to display an increasing ability to sustain concentration, fluency and the beginnings of stylistic awareness and performance through some solo passage work. Rhythms will be more developed, employing syncopation between the hands, swing rhythm in increasing notation complexity and a wider range of note values. Players will be expected to show the beginnings of stylistic awareness through use of appropriate techniques and articulation associated with patch changes. Where patch changes are requires these will be limited to two patches per piece.

Grade 3 BBK fits in with Rockschool's Guitar, Bass and Drums Syllabuses

Type of keyboard required: Keyboard with 61 keys.

Patches required: Acoustic piano, Electric piano, Organ, Strings and Synth.

Genres covered: Brit pop punk, Hard Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Surf Blues, Reggae