Trinity College London Grade 8 Piano Syllabus 2023

Recently, at the end of September, Trinity launched its new piano syllabus. The core difference between the ABRSM and Trinity piano grades is that Triniy has some transcriptions of pop songs, video game, Anime themes that will appeal to the young learner. In the Grade 8 syllabus, this includes Here Hampstead Piano youtube channel has performed the core Grade 8 pieces with music notation you can follow. You can do performance digital submissions or 3 pieces + technical exercises and scales, all on a digital submission. The scale requirement is less than the full ABRSM requirement. Technical exercises are equivalent of 3 short etudes that will demonstrate your technical abilities and musicianship. The Heart Asks Pleasure First is from the 1993 motion picture film. It's one of my favourites. Dragon Ball Z, the anime series also has a piece featured too. 0:00 Etude no. 104 in G# minor (Montgeroult) 3:16 Scherzo (3rd movt from Sonata in A, D 959) (Schubert) 7:27 Erinnerung, op. 24 (Pejačević) 10:35 Valse, op. 64 no. 1 (Chopin) 12:50 Invention 1 (from Four Inventions) (Fitzgerald) 13:45 Investigations (Li) 16:31 A New Adventure (Choi) 19:14 Cha-La Head-Cha-La (from Dragon Ball Z) (Mori and Kiyooka, arr. Human) 20:47 The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from The Piano) (Nyman) 23:25 Hoe-down (Colley) 25:38 Vignette (Edis) 29:04 Armando’s Rhumba (Corea, arr. Wilson) Here's Sim's piano performing with view of the hands moving. If you enjoyed this blog post and want more blog posts to continue, smash that buy me a coffee link to encourage me!

Yamaha P-525 the digital piano flagship replacement to P-515

This month, Yamaha has announced the P-525, the replacement to the now 3 year old P-515 top of the line p range digital piano. Here's an introductory video highlighting the recent features. There seems to be a rhythm function as well so you can play along to drum beats. I don't recall this feature on the P-515, so it's probably likely to align their p series pianos to Roland's popular FP piano series which have rhythms. 

 

Here's a longer demonstration with the main voices 

Keyboard studio has also done a longer demo with the voices in action.