Grade 7

At Grade 7, you can learn about spoken lyrics and improvising. You’ll perform three songs and build on your Grade 6 Session skills.

Choose your songs from our song list, including one of the Technical focus songs that develop particular skills. There’s an option for you to sing your own cover version of a song or, if you’re a songwriter, one of your own songs.

You’ll find more information about how the exam works in the downloadable syllabus.

Grade 7 Vocals song list

Although we’ve organised the song lists for male and female vocalists, you can choose any song for your exam. There are two Grade 7 Vocals songbooks – one for female vocals and one for male vocals. The songbooks include everything you need for the exam – sheet music for six songs, performance tips, technical support and guidance on Session skills, together with a CD of demo and backing tracks.

Here's a selection of songs from the two songbooks. To view the full song list for Grade 7 Vocals download the Rock & Pop syllabus.

• Without You (Female vocals) (Technical focus) Mariah Carey
• Firework (Female vocals) Katy Perry
• Free Money (Female vocals) (Technical focus) Patti Smith
• Mr Bojangles (Male vocals) (Technical focus) Robbie Williams
• Crazy (Male vocals) (Technical focus) Gnarls Barkley
• High And Dry (Male vocals) Radiohead

Session Skills

Players choose Playback or Improvising.

Playback

You’ll perform some music you haven’t seen or heard before – you can sight-read from a song chart or sing by ear from an audio track, or both.

Improvising

You’ll be given a song chart with chord symbols and song style and will improvise over a backing track.

Songs:  Can't Fight The Moonlight, Firework Free Money, Are You Ready For Love, Crazy, High And Dry

• Download vocals syllabus

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