If you desire some gratitude for your current level of piano and violin playing, then simplest and most feasible option is to take a graded exam. Generally these exams are conducted by Trinity Guildhall which is an associative board of royal schools of music. This is a well appreciated board which holds piano and violin exams all around the world for citizens to take.

Trinity guildhall board graded examination consists of 9 exams include initial grade, grade 1 and grade 2 and so on until the ending one is at grade 8. On the other hand, you must pass all the grade exams in and grade 8 exam is the most important one which is a theory exam.

Almost every trinity guildhall board exams you are marked on 7 different subjects include 3 pieces, arpeggios and scales, sight reading, ear tests (listening), viva voce (signing). Every subject has a maximum mark which adds up to 100. You can easily pass these tests, but 2 types of grades which you are able to attain. The two types of grades are distinction and merit that show you have passed the exam with a higher level score.

There are three levels of trinity diploma study commonly taken to become a good teacher. The qualifications in ascending order are:

-          ATCL Recital, or ATCL performance

-          LTCL Recital

-          FTCL Recital

The theory exams are all on the subject of understanding, writing, and analyzing music by knowing about different transposing, clefs, melodic intervals, naming chords, and naming keys.

Music is a god gift, and for passing this grade exam you require a suitable teacher. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced student possessing a qualified responsible music teacher is very important. If you clear all the above mentioned diplomas, you can start teaching from now.

Rock as a genre of music may have been born relatively late as far as music is concerned, considering that they played the fiddle and the harp since Alexander the Great. But rock like the youngest kid of the family has been the most spoilt, most fickle (where sticking to rules is concerned) and also probably the most loved. The musical format can be best described as being “restless” and it is therefore extremely difficult to define. Electric guitars, drums, bass, strong vocals and deep lyrics are some of the terms that can be thrown together and somehow give a tentative definition. A closer look at the history would at the closest give one an idea of its evolution, interpretation of how that comes together to form the music genre is left entirely up to personal taste.

Rock music owes its origins to the 1940’s as a decade.  Country and Jazz was the order of the day at that time and the two morphed together aided by some electric guitars to produce a new kind of sound. 1950’s rock music pioneers like Chuck Berry were one of the first to merge some guitar with classic blues and be successful at entertaining the crowds at the same time. It was by the early 1960’s that Berry’s followers began to expand the scope of rock, these included The Rolling Stones. Rock music in their hands was beginning to become cultural symbols with their freedom with sex and youthful energy.

The 1970’s brought along new experiments as far as the sonic territory was concerned. Led Zeppelin helped kick start a new branch of rock that came to be known as Heavy metal, which was darker and heavier than what their predecessors were creating. Pink Floyd also began to gain popularity around that time and they added their psychedelic arrangements that have often been credited with egging on the progressive rock movement in music.

Punk was also soon born around the late 1970’s, when bands like The Sex Pilots and The Clash brought rock down to its basic instruments, loud singing and enraged playing of instruments and an over all attitude that spelt RUDE. Industrial rock soon came to the forefront with their unconventional use of instruments like drumming machines. However, the 1980’s again began to toy with the genre as every decade had been doing. English bands such as Depeche Mode began to demonstrate a post – punk style of song writing. REM as an American band began to absorb a similar style and these bands became popular as the “College rock” because of its popularity with the college radio stations.

It was in the 1990’s that rock began to settle into a different mould, one of an alternative style with bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden bringing the genre to mainstream music. The 1990’soon dwindled back to the past with a more traditional mainstream style of rock returning Linkin Park and 3Doors Down and Foo Fighters. Even though on the surface they might sound like hip hop-rock, contemporary and grunge, the spoilt kid remembers its roots.