Demonstrate aural and theoretical skills through transcription
This standard asks you to listen to a piece of music and transcribe what you hear—writing down the chords, rhythms, melodies, and other musical features in musical notation. You need to show that you can both hear what's happening in the music and understand the theory behind it, then communicate that understanding accurately on paper.
You identify chords, rhythms, melodies and musical features from the recording and write them down in notation, even if there are some small errors or gaps.
You identify chord progressions (not just individual chords), communicate clear rhythmic and melodic phrases with mostly accurate notation, and show understanding of how the musical features fit together.
Your transcription convincingly reproduces the original music with secure accuracy across chords, rhythms, melodies and musical features, so that someone could use your notation to play back a recognizable version of what they heard.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.