FAQs

Entries for Digital Grades and Diplomas are made through your local representative. UK customers also have the option of using our online portal. Please visit Your local Trinity page.

Please show one page of your ebook in your video submission, with the watermark clearly legible. For Trinity ebooks, you’ll find the watermark at the bottom of every page.

The option to take face-to-face exams differ from country to country. Please refer to the relevant country page in Your local Trinity for the most up to date information on face-to-face exams.

The performance of the pieces and technical work should be filmed in one continuous take, without edits. Please see the Record page for further information.

You may not enter the same performance video for the same exam more than once. We strongly advise candidates not to share their performance videos online. Pieces in the Music and the Drama and Performance syllabuses are under copyright, and many of those rights are not owned by Trinity. Trinity only has the required permissions for usage of these pieces in TCL Press published books and in relation to Trinity exams. As such, if you would like to share your videos online, you should apply to the copyright owner(s) to obtain synchronisation licences as Trinity does not usually have the right to grant the relevant permissions. Any candidate sharing performances of copyrighted material will be personally liable for any breach of copyright law

The FTCL is not available through the Digital Diplomas at this time. Please refer to the relevant country page in Your local Trinity for information about the restart of face-to-face exams in your area.

Yes, the Digital Grades and Diplomas are regulated in exactly the same way and carry the same value as the face-to-face exam. There are also no changes to the awarded certificate.

• Drum Kit: All Group A pieces must always be accompanied by the Trinity backing tracks
• Acoustic Guitar: Pieces where backing tracks are required must always be accompanied by the Trinity backing tracks
• Rock & Pop: Songs must always be accompanied by the Trinity backing tracks
• Piano: Any duets should have the Secondo part played in the exam. The candidate must always play the Primo part. Candidates may use a recorded Secondo part in place of a live player. Solo performances of duets are not permitted.
• All other instruments: Candidates may use recorded accompaniments/backing tracks in place of a live accompanist or duet partner. For duets, these must be played on the original duet instrument specified in the syllabus. For other pieces, these may be of any type (eg piano or instrumental), however these must not include the solo instrument line played on the candidate instrument, ie be a demo track. It is important that the candidate’s performance can be heard clearly throughout, and so any recorded accompaniment should match the published piano accompaniment and not provide any additional assistance to the candidate part (eg doubling of the instrumental or vocal line/rhythmic fills in held notes), or the exam may be subject to referral.
• Solo performances in place of live accompaniment/backing tracks are not permitted.

Please refer to this page for information on recorded accompaniments published by Trinity.

For digital music diplomas, we strongly advise candidates to perform with live accompaniment. However, we will accept recorded accompaniments in digital diploma exams.

Recorded parts should be on piano for digital diploma exams (except for Drum Kit). If recorded parts on other instruments are required for any other reason, eg harpsichord for baroque works, approval must be obtained in advance.

Certificate exams are not available as Digital qualifications at this time. Please refer to the relevant country page in Your local Trinity for information about the restart of face-to-face exams in your area.

Trinity is committed to creating an inclusive environment where candidates with special educational needs, disabilities and health conditions are able to demonstrate their skills and feel welcomed. Please see the page below for details of a range of adjustments available for those requiring additional support.

Candidates with special needs and disabilities (Music and Rock & Pop) 

Candidates with special needs and disabilities (Drama)

The LTCL is not available through the Digital Diplomas at this time.

Please refer to the relevant country page in Your local Trinity  for information about the restart of face-to-face exams in your area.

Certificate exams are not available as Digital qualifications at this time. Please refer to the relevant country page in Your local Trinity  for information about the restart of face-to-face exams in your area. 

Digital exams are assessed in just the same way as face-to-face exams. Examiners use the same marking criteria for pieces and technical work and watch the exam just once, as they would in a face-to-face exam. Please see our video from our lead senior examiners who explain this in more detail. The full criteria can be found in the digital Classical & Jazz Grades, digital Rock & Pop grades, or digital diplomas syllabus.