Play as you go: RSL Awards Group Performance Exams

There are universal things about being a musician’, says RSL Awards’ Dan Francis. He's giving me examples of the different groups that could take their new Group Performance qualifications. ‘Whether you're in a band of five students – drummer, guitarist, singer, bass player, keys player – or a group of all ukulele players or djembe drummers. You could be in a string quartet, or you could be a singer working with someone using live performance technology.’

Beginning in the early 1990s as Rockschool, RSL has since introduced qualifications in the wider contemporary arts. ‘What we already do is the traditional model of having a one-to-one instrumental lesson and then you go and take an exam. Then, we also facilitate the option of being taught in a classroom and instead of doing a GCSE or A Level, you can do one of our vocational qualifications,’ says Francis.