Candidates for Drum Kit exams can choose Unpitched Aural as one of their two supporting tests. This comprises time signature recognition, style recognition, identifying changes and providing accompaniment to a short piece of music played by the examiner at the piano, helping to develop key skills such as musical perception and ensemble playing.

Watch example tests

Initial

Grade 3

Grade 4

With grateful thanks to St Faith’s School, Cambridge, for facilitating these videos.

Download specimen tests

Initial

Download an example of the Unpitched Aural test for the new Initial grade.

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Unpitched Aural | Initial

Grades 1–8

Example tests are given in the Unpitched Aural: Specimen Tests for Drum Kit book.

Recordings of the piano part to Part 4 of the Playalong test are available here (23.5MB zip file containing 22 MP3 files)

Download Playalong Tracks (MP3)
Unpitched Aural Specimen Tests