i really dont know because i play4 different instruments (including voice) with all three, and i cant make up my mind which is best!

I think Guildhall is good as the marking is fairer and is broken down into sections within each element.

They also do jazz exams up to Grade 8.

I think that if you are not sure you get the syllabus from each board and see which suits you the best.
Mostly I think it is a question of what they ask apart from set pieces.
I think that Guildhall have examiners who play your instrument but not so many centres.

I think that doing the poll in the ABRSM's forum is likely to produce a rather biased result!

I voted ABRSM but somebody said that 4 diplomas Trinity is easier to pass.

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I voted ABRSM but somebody said that 4 diplomas Trinity is easier to pass.

But is that necessarily a good thing?

And yes, I think that a poll on an AB forum is likely to be- just slightly - biased!

QUOTE (cecilia @ Oct 24 2004, 07:28 AM)

And yes, I think that a poll on an AB forum is likely to be- just slightly - biased!

maybe just ever so slightly!lol

but who voted for london college of music? shock, horror!!

How do you mean best? Do you mean easiest? fastest to get results? Fairer marking? I play violin and piano and do ABRSM exams on them and sax and im doin Trinity exam on that. But ive never done a Trinity exam, ive done 8 ABRSM ones though!

Hahaha I thought you meant message board!

I can't comment on TCL or LCM (even though TCL are now merged with guildhall I think), but ABRSM certainly seems better organised than Guildhall

Dave

although i do think its good that the Guildhall examiners actually play your instrument

QUOTE (Appassionata @ Oct 23 2004, 10:00 AM)

They also do jazz exams up to Grade 8.  :lol:

Do you have a URL for the jazz exams by any chance?

I went to the Guildhall web page and it says they've amalgamated with Trinity. I went to the Trinity web site and all I could see were classical and pop syllabuses.

Thanks.

I like trinity because the examiners actually play the instrument they examine for and because you get the results the same day! But I prefer the ABRSM pieces most of the time!