The nerves begin again
Yesterday I received word that my recorder teacher has sent to the ABRSM my entry for grade 5 treble recorder.
The exam’s not likely to be until the first week of December, but I’m already scared. What with NaNoWriMo and practising for the exam, I think November’s going to be a busy month.
Now to make a chart of scales I need to learn and start playing them all three times a day.
Good luck! I hope it all goes well. I’m trying to study recorder again, although as I can’t merit the buying of any music towards it (it’s not my foremost concern at the moment) it’s not going particularly fast. The Web has a lot of music for beginner recorder players, but nothing more advanced. Hey ho, I’ll find something eventually, I guess.
Exams are always scary. If you can play your pieces and your scales in your sleep, it’ll make it easier!
(My brother, four years after I passed my Grade 5 clarinet, started humming one of my pieces on the way to our bus stop. I hadn’t played the piece since the exam. That’s how much I’d played that (ghastly) tune!)
Also- Miranda Sykes! dances to the bassist I know her from Pressgang, although I have always wondered where she went next.
Vip
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Comment by Vip/Laura — Saturday, 30th September 2006 @ 7:15
Oh I know about overplaying ghastly tunes! Fortunately two of my pieces for grade 5 are quite nice really, and the one that’s not so nice is the List B (modern) piece. This seems normal, because modern recorder music is pretty much generally horrible - at least what I’ve encountered of it. The best modern stuff I have played is that which was written in an older style.
Still, at least it means I’m happy to practise the List C unaccompanied piece, because unlike last time it’s not horribly, mind-numbingly boring.
It’s nice to hear from you!
Comment by MaW — Sunday, 1st October 2006 @ 7:22