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Notation and Transposition
Treble and bass staves, ledger lines, accidentals, enharmonic equivalents.
RCM Levels 5–8 · Theory Syllabus, 2016 Edition
Your student gets ten minutes of theory a week.QuizNotes takes the other six days.
Assign a drill once, it marks itself, and you see every student's weakest category before the lesson starts.
No card for the trial. Your students practise free, forever.
Fraser Street Piano StudioJuly 2026
Ava R.
RCM Level 6 Theory
Overall74%
Pass mark 60%+6 since June
Scales and Key Signatures89%
Intervals74%
Chords and Harmony68%
Rhythm and Meter52%
Practise next: Rhythm and Meter
11 sessions · 214 questions · 9 days
45min
the length of RCM’s online Levels 5–8 theory paper
60%
RCM’s published pass mark
3
theory sessions a year — December, May and August
$0
what your students pay, now and later
What ships, and what does not
Every feature has to answer one of two questions.
Does it save you time?
Assign once, to the whole class
One class, one code, one due date.
Marked before they close the tab
Fresh questions every time. Nothing in your marking pile.
The whole roster on one screen
Students by category, weakest cell called out.
Does it prove progress to the parent?
Every attempt kept, permanently
Never trimmed — a report covers the whole term.
One page home each month
Per-category accuracy against the pass mark, in your studio's name.
A straight answer before the deadlineIn build
45-minute mock scored against the pass mark.
One feature is marked In build — in build for the December session.
| Student | Notation | Rhythm | Scales | Intervals | Chords | Terms | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ava R. | 88% | 72% | 91% | 65% | 78% | 85% | — |
| Ben K. | 75% | 58% | 68% | 71% | 45% | 62% | Chords |
| Clara W. | 92% | 84% | 79% | 88% | 91% | 76% | — |
| David L. | 42% | 38% | 55% | 31% | 48% | — | Intervals |
| Emma T. | 68% | 62% | 74% | 59% | 63% | 70% | Intervals |
Your whole studio on one screen. The real grid updates as students practise.
Coverage
Built to RCM's own knowledge categories. Not our topic names — theirs.
02
Rhythm and Meter
Note and rest values, time signatures, beaming, grouping, triplets, irregular groupings.
03
Scales and Key Signatures
Major, all three minors, key signatures, modes and chromatic/whole-tone/pentatonic at L7–8.
04
Intervals
Major, minor, perfect plus tritone — ascending from L5, descending from L7.
05
Chords and Harmony
Triads, dominant sevenths by quality and inversion; diminished and augmented at L7.
06
Music Terms and Signs
RCM's cumulative published list, Preparatory through Level 8.
Two categories skipped: Melody Writing, Form, and Analysis (asks the student to write notation, which needs an editor rather than a drill) and Music History (is examined at Levels 9 and 10, above this product's range). Not yet in drills: alto and tenor clefs, augmented and diminished intervals other than the tritone, compound intervals past the octave.
Levels 5 to 8
The syllabus does not arrive evenly. Level 7 is a cliff.
7
Chromatic, whole-tone, octatonic, pentatonic and blues scales all enter at once.
See the full syllabus8
Alto and tenor clefs, the seven diatonic modes, and compound intervals to a 15th all enter at once.
See the full syllabusSummarised from the RCM Theory Syllabus, 2016 Edition. Always check the current syllabus for the requirement itself.
The deal
Your students never pay. Not now, not later.
One plan
$19/month
Or $180/year. Up to 40 students. Less than one half-hour lesson.
- Unlimited classes, students and assignments
- Every drill, every RCM level from 5 to 8
- Per-category progress for the whole roster
- Monthly parent reports, in your studio's name
- 14 days free, no card, cancel whenever