Well here we go !! The white shirt is ironed, the shoes polished ! In two and a half hours, I'll be in my car, driving towards a little village snuggling in the SW countryside to take my Grade 8 !!
Am I nervous ? YES!! But I'm going to knock 'em dead !!!

Yay! Go trudi - you will be great!
GOOD LUCK!

Good luck, Trudi! Hope it goes well for you!

Yeah!!! Go for it!!!

Good Luck (tho I know you won't need it cos you are so well prepared )

Let us know how it goes, I'll have the kettle on for when you get back!

no sugar thankyou, lots of milk !!!!! You are all so supportive, just think we've never met, but we all know the feeling eh ?

Good Luck, I'm sure you'll be great!

Just don't forget the bananas

Liz

Good luck!!!!! Go and wow them!!!

Remember there's only one examiner but several thousand forum members so he's the one that should be intimidated.

I like it !!!

all the best, trudihiggins! i hope it goes well for you!

Just found out the examiner is a woman and her instrument is cello !! Off to get dressed now, eaten my first banana, might play acouple of those nasty scales Fsharp minor melodic or something, then off I go !!! the sun is shining and it's crispy cold, hope I don't get cold in my teachers house !!

Hope it went well!

Car Expert

Hope the exam went well! Am keeping my fingers crossed!

Ah, grade 8 clarinet. I remember it (just!).

Thought of you doing your exam today Trudi, and hope it all went well. I look forward to reading your contribution to the "I passed" threads.

I'm sure it went well! Have you done the post-examination post mortem?

And yes, we expect to see an "I passed" topic soon!!

Well, it's done, and for the first time I was not nervous, I went into that room full of energy and feeling really good. My pianist said that the two accompanied pieces were ace, I blew the examiner off her chair with the Lolita and I really had a good time !! The study was ok, a few errors but overall I think good. I was so knackered by the time it came to the scales, there were some errors there !! The sightreading was 'original' and the theory well I did know the composer was modern AND I knew it was an English composer, got to count for something !!
All in alll I feel good, maybe a pass MAYBE more will know on Tuesday,
THANKS TO ALL YOU FORUM FRIENDS for putting up with me over the last few weeks !!!

YAY! Well done trudi - we knew you could do it!

Thats fantastic. Let us know the results!

you bet

Hey trudi what pieces did you do? I did my clari grade eight this morn too! did the rondo mvmt from the mozart concerto, the 1st mvmt of the poulenc and paul harri's sonata da camera. Good luck for your results! post them up on the boards and then we can have a whinging and comparing session! :-D well done!

Glad to hear that trudi. I love the Lorito too. Hope the results reflect your performance and the work you put in.

I did Francisco Gomez 'Lorito', Grovlez 'Sarabande et Allegro' and the Chris Allen Study . I'll let you know how I did, she was a fairly strict examiner I think !!
Can't sleep, perhaps this is a side effect of bananas !!

Well done you! It sounds like you did really well, and well done for not being nervous.

Thanks - I'll let you know on Tuesday morning - still feeling good about it this morning - so that's a good sign, bit too much red wine last night !!!
I hope I can bring out the bubbly on Tuesday, I hope the examiner wasn't too hard on me for my aural !! Apparently she quite likes the pieces to be played 'strictly' !! I can't help my character coming through, there's always rather a lot of me in my interpretation ..... hope that doesn't stand against me .........

Well done on taking your G8 trudihiggins & country bumpkin. Delighted to see you are so positive about your performance trudihiggins. Hope to hear some good news from you both soon!

Surely your examiner will allow you artistic licence? After all, how could anyone play something wild or madly romantic strictly? - if you felt good about how it all went, then it will have gone well, don't worry. As all those "I must have failed" posts show, people remember more of what didn't go right than what did - so you must have been great.
How come you can get your results so quickly? I've always had to wait an age for ABRSM results....and an age for my Trinity certificate, but I digress. All the best for Tuesday.

I'm not sure I was right in saying Tuesday, I just assumed !! We're not in England, and guessed we'd have the results straight away !! It'll probably be after Christmas, unless they put us out of our pain before !!