What's new

Every significant change to the Tech Work Finder and the Student Tech Work Tracker, newest first. Small fixes and tidying are left out.

Both tools are built in the open with a group of teachers testing as we go, and a good deal of what follows started as something one of them told us.

Thinking about building

Not built yet, and whether it gets built depends on whether teachers want it. One tap tells us.

ProposedExam order on the wheel

An ABRSM examiner suggested this one. At the moment the wheel picks at random, so it can land on the same three scales all afternoon. Exam order would still pick at random, but work through your board's own list the way an examiner does: scales hands separately and hands together, then contrary motion and the chromatic, then arpeggios, then the board's set exercises. It would cover every type before repeating anything. The minors would come up in all three forms rather than harmonic every time.

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23 October 2026

The boards in alphabetical order
- BetterExam boards are listed alphabetically everywhere they appear, rather than in the order we happened to add them. They sit side by side as equals, so the old order read as a ranking. The board already ticked when you open the Finder is now simply the first one alphabetically. AGMS suggested it.
- NewA link can name the board. /tech-work/?board=agms opens on that board, so a board can send its own teachers straight to their syllabus. Add &grade=grade3 to land on a filled-in grade.
23 October 2026

Send a student home with the wheel

The thing teachers have asked for most. Send one student a link and they spin their own scales at home, with no account and nothing to install.
- NewPractice links. On any student's sheet, "Send this home to practise" makes a link carrying the wheel exactly as it is in front of you. Choose whether the list is fixed for the week or whether they can turn scales off it. Nothing they do at home ever changes your sheet.
- NewSign-in codes. If you have saved the tool to your home screen, the emailed link opens Safari instead of the app and leaves you signed out. The email now carries a code you can type straight into the app. One member found this by filming it for us.
- BetterThe practice panel tells you how many scales you are about to send, and which list they came from, before you send it.
22 October 2026

A way in for members, and the wheel always spins
- FixedThe wheel would not spin for anyone whose device asks for reduced motion, which plenty of iPads have switched on without their owner knowing. It read as a broken tool. It now always spins.
- BetterSign in now sits in the bar on the sales page and in the page itself, instead of one link at the very bottom. Every sign-in link opens the sign-in box directly rather than a page where it is hidden behind a cog.
- FixedNarrow phones no longer scroll sideways on the sales page, which clipped text at the right edge.
19 October 2026

ABRSM, the tenth board

Initial through to Grade 8 of the Piano Practical Grades syllabus, published with ABRSM's written permission.
- NewABRSM, 222 requirements typed from the 2025 and 2026 syllabus, with their wording and links to their own syllabus and publications shown wherever their material appears.
- FixedABRSM sets no technical exercises, and the free tool had assumed every board does, so its technical work would not open at all.
13 October 2026

Rockschool, the ninth board
- NewRockschool, Debut through Grade 8 from RSL Awards, 180 requirements and 34 studies, with their permission.
12 October 2026

The boards' own set exercises
- NewWhere a board sets named studies and exercises, they now appear on the sheet after the arpeggios, for every board and every grade, back through the whole syllabus. They sit outside the progress bar on purpose: Trinity prints twelve and a candidate prepares three.
9 October 2026

Notes on any row, and a clearer name
- NewA note on any row of a student's sheet. "Thumb under too early", "fix the rhythm in bar 3". A small pencil opens it, and the note travels between your devices the way ticks do.
- BetterThe paid tool is now the Student Tech Work Tracker everywhere, which is what teachers were calling it anyway.
1 to 8 October 2026

A proper home, and the spin button where you need it
- NewA sales page for the tracker, with a three minute video of both tools in use.
- BetterThe spin button comes to you rather than waiting at the bottom of a long sheet, which matters most mid-lesson on a phone.
- BetterYour own rows can be exercises as well as scales, pieces and aural work.
- NewUK and EU visitors are asked before any analytics run, with Privacy and Terms linked from every page.
30 September 2026

The tracker opens to everyone

Until now it was testers only. From here a teacher could pay for it, or sign in with a TopMusicPro membership and have it included.
- NewUS$29 a year, with a 7 day free trial, or included in every TopMusicPro plan from Lite upwards.
- BetterTaught splits per hand on any two-handed row, because that is how a scale actually gets taught.
- BetterYou can say which form of the minor a student is preparing, and the wheel asks for that one.
27 to 29 September 2026

Two more boards, and AMEB rebuilt
- NewLondon College of Music and the Music Teachers' Board.
- FixedAMEB Piano rebuilt line by line from the 2018 technical work books, rather than from a website.
- NewPieces and aural work can sit on a student's sheet alongside their scales.
16 to 17 September 2026

Your students follow you to every device

The week the tracker stopped being a thing in one browser and became an account.
- NewSign in with your email, no password, and your whole studio appears on your laptop, iPad and phone.
- NewIt keeps working when the wifi drops, which in a music room it will. Ticks queue and go up when the signal returns.
- NewTopMusicPro members get it at no extra cost, recognised by their membership email.
- BetterOn a phone the roster is a card per student instead of a table you have to drag sideways.
9 to 15 September 2026

The spinners, and five more boards
- NewThe Scale Spinner, which fills itself from the grade you picked, and the Blank Spinner for any list you type.
- NewSt. Cecilia, AGMS, Trinity College London including the digital exam's Set A and Set B, UME and ANZCA.
- BetterReal sharps and flats throughout, rather than typing b and #.
4 September 2026

The Tech Work Finder

Where it started: every scale, chord and arpeggio for one grade on one page, taken straight from the syllabus.
- NewAMEB Piano, built from the official 2026 syllabus, free and with no sign-up.

About the syllabus data

Every board here is published with that board's written permission, and each syllabus was typed up from their own printed books rather than scraped from a website. Ten boards, 19 syllabuses and 2,788 requirements so far. RCM is next. When a board reissues a syllabus we update it, and your students' ticks come with them.

Found something wrong, or want something added? Tell us at support@topmusic.co. Most of what is on this page started as a message from a teacher.

What's new

Thinking about building

ProposedExam order on the wheel

The boards in alphabetical order

Send a student home with the wheel

A way in for members, and the wheel always spins

ABRSM, the tenth board

Rockschool, the ninth board

The boards' own set exercises

Notes on any row, and a clearer name

A proper home, and the spin button where you need it

The tracker opens to everyone

Two more boards, and AMEB rebuilt

Your students follow you to every device

The spinners, and five more boards

The Tech Work Finder

About the syllabus data