Has anyone just done it or is anyone doing it in the Autumn? I am learning the pieces as part of my A Level course so I am Grade 5 standard for uni, but looking at the pieces, they seem VERY daunting!

I'm going to do it in November hopefully....

I'm doing... Allegro Molto, Etude in F (i think thats the name...) and Bossa Nova....

I'm never going to get Allegro molto to the right speed...!! it's nightmare on the bit where ti goies up and down really fast... but thats just me... lol

what peices are you doing?

xx Leaxx

well i am going to learn them all, since it is just to make me grade 5 standard then do grade 6 exam, before I start my gap year.

ye im doing Allegro Molto as well! i can play it slow but as soon as i play it fast my fingers play random notes on the piano!

hi i am prolly the youngest on here to play grade 5 hehe..

im doing allegro molto, lied and bossa nova hehe..

im rly enjoing it now because its a big change from thoery all the time and i hate thoery i used to hate piano but now it grew on me so im rly glad to be playing again.

Hi, i'm probally one off the younger ones on here too. I'm doin allegro molto, etude in F and An Evening in the Village. I just love the etude.

Hi, I'm doing Allegro Molto, Chante de l'alouette, and An evening in the village.

Hey Baby Banana,you may be the youngest here to do grade 5,but i was 14 when i passed it im now 36

QUOTE (Yorkie @ Jul 2 2004, 01:19 PM)

Hey Baby Banana,you may be the youngest here to do grade 5,but i was 14 when i passed it im now 36

Nope! im 12.. lol.. o well i dnt mind as long as my hand doesnt ache too much.

Hmm... I'll be 15 when I do grade 5, maybe still 14, hopefully I'll do it at Easter so who knows what age I'll be!

at the moment im playing Allegro Molto, Lied and Bossa Nova. i might learn the Etude in F coz i love it and then decide nearer the time which to play! i think the list A is horrible anyone else think that?!

I am doing Allegro molto, chante de l'alouette and an evening in the village

My cousin was 8 when he took his grade 5

QUOTE (cecilia @ Jul 6 2004, 09:36 AM)

My cousin was 8 when he took his grade 5

wow!!!

hey im so proud of myself! ive just learnt a new scale- Eb minor, hands together, 3 octaves! now lets see if i can do it in my lesson tomorrow!!

QUOTE (BabyBanana @ Jun 30 2004, 05:38 PM)

im doing allegro molto, lied and bossa nova hehe..

I did those ones to! but i did it at xmas.

Wait til you have to do that one in contrary motion Natalie

QUOTE (sbhoa @ Jul 7 2004, 03:30 PM)

Wait til you have to do that one in contrary motion Natalie

Yes I'm doing that one for Grade 6. If you don't get the left hand correct from the start you've had it.

QUOTE (Katet @ Jul 7 2004, 09:03 AM)

QUOTE (BabyBanana @ Jun 30 2004, 05:38 PM) im doing allegro molto, lied and bossa nova hehe.. I did those ones to! but i did it at xmas.

ooh.. r they easy?? allegro molto is hard to put it together..

Cant remember the music i played to pass grade 5 music- will post them on at a later date-will post my previous exam scores as well !-a few Distinctions ! (15 yrs ago ofcourse)

'A' level course!! Ha ha ! but fair play to you !

QUOTE (Lucia @ Jul 7 2004, 03:42 PM)

Yes I'm doing that one for Grade 6.

oh no! do you have to do it for grade 6? or do you get a choice of groups like for some grade 5 ones

I can't do contry motion in c minor..

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Jul 8 2004, 08:36 PM)

QUOTE (Lucia @ Jul 7 2004, 03:42 PM) Yes I'm doing that one for Grade 6. oh no! do you have to do it for grade 6? or do you get a choice of groups like for some grade 5 ones

Yes you get a choice of two groups.

well if i dont pick the Eb minor group im sure the other group will have something equally nasty!

I'm doing Grade 5 piano exam in November. I just wish i could get my head around the course work. Isn't this forum useful. it's not a bad service.

Hi

I did my grade 5 a month ago. I did the Allegro Molto, the Etude in F and the Evening in the Village. My teacher kept calling it my "performance" rather than an exam and I found that really helped - I actually enjoyed it

I learnt my contraries using advice from someone on here - doing them really really slowly over and over again - and it worked really well.

Cat (at 20, an oldie!)

Hi Catrin
Have you had your result yet?

I got a distinction, and I was really pleased. I worked really hard for it. Full marks on my scales too! Thanks for asking!

Cat

well done Catrin!

Well done

QUOTE (bascand @ Jul 19 2004, 12:53 AM)

I'm doing Grade 5 piano exam in November. I just wish i could get my head around the course work. Isn't this forum useful. it's not a bad service.

Well november isn't as bad as March.. arrgh i only get one go at it and if i fail it then im soo dead .. gta do he nxt book,

QUOTE (BabyBanana @ Jul 23 2004, 08:25 PM)

Well november isn't as bad as March.. arrgh i only get one go at it and if i fail it then im soo dead .. gta do he nxt book,

you will pass, im sure!! im doing my grade 5 in november.

It's quite hard to fail grade 5, I think... you'll be OK

I'm doing my grade 5 in March (hopefully), I'm doing it with the new syllabus, I've already got two of my pieces hands together!

I did my Grade 5 Piano exam on 15th July. Everything went quite well overall apart from small slips on various notes which I expect. I still find it annoying though but I suppose that's because I'm a perfectionist! I suppose everybody would love to make no mistakes at all! The only thing which let me down was really just the sightreading - four sharps in the key signature! A friend of mine also did Grade 5 Piano (with the same examiner) and she only had one flat! How unfair's that?! Anyway, I'm sure I'll get a least a merit, but maybe I'll be lucky and just reach the '130' mark for a distinction!

The pieces I did were the 'Allegro Molto', 'Lied' and 'Bossa Nova'. My favourite has to be 'Bossa Nova'. I love the chords and all the different dynamics in the piece. It's what I call a really 'fun' piece! Does anyone else really like this piece?

I've just received the new Grade 6 Piano syllabus via 'musicroom.com' so I'm looking foward to starting work on them in my next lesson, however, I won't be able to enter for the exam till next summer due to the dreaded 'Grade 5 Theory' which I'm doing in March. I can't wait to get over that hurdle!

Anyway, good luck to anyone doing Grade 5 in November or March!

Last year when I was 11, I took Grade 5 and passed with 130 marks. I played Allegro molto, Lied, and An Evening in the Village

oh dear, i tried to play Allegro Molto along with a metronome to get an idea of how fast it actually goes. result- absolute disaster! i couldn't keep up!

QUOTE (MBC_Tiger @ Jul 4 2004, 03:08 PM)

chante de l'alouette

i love the ending of this piece! i play it all the time, my mum wonders what on earth im doing!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Jul 26 2004, 09:41 AM)

oh dear, i tried to play Allegro Molto along with a metronome to get an idea of how fast it actually goes. result- absolute disaster! i couldn't keep up!

I don't think you really need to play it as fast as that for the exam, I certainly didn't. After all if you could play it like Paul Lewis does on the CD you wouldn't be doing your grade 5, you'd probably be doing your diploma. lol So I wouldn't worry too much about the speed it's probably better to concentrate on keeping it even and flowing nicely.

Good luck to all of you doing Grade 5! I'm a teacher and I love Bossa Nova too.. I keep playing it now and then. I also love the Grade 7 Elegiac Blues.. for anyone who is more advanced but likes this kind of music.

In fact I like most of the Grade 5 pieces as compare to only some of the pieces from other grades. And yes, the allegro molto doesn't really have to be at breakneck speed so long as you can do it evenly and make it flow. I'd recommend you to aim for at least 76 dotted crotchet beats in a minute, but if you can do up to 84 without problems, that's great.

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oh dear, i tried to play Allegro Molto along with a metronome to get an idea of how fast it actually goes. result- absolute disaster! i couldn't keep up!

Don't forget my student from last term who played it under speed, and yet still got quite a good mark in the exam!

Maggie

QUOTE (maggiemay @ Jul 26 2004, 06:38 PM)

QUOTE oh dear, i tried to play Allegro Molto along with a metronome to get an idea of how fast it actually goes. result- absolute disaster! i couldn't keep up! Don't forget my student from last term who played it under speed, and yet still got quite a good mark in the exam! Maggie

ah yes, well done on reminding me!!

i need help with Lied!

in the left hand i need to accent the first note of each bar from the bottom of page 1(you know where i mean?!!)

i can't seem to do it without accenting the right hand as well. erm..help!

I had this problem aswell with 'Lied'. The best advice I can give you is to try and really really concentrate on the left hand and what your doing with it (in this case accenting it) and try and forget what your doing with the right hand. If you try and do this you may get a better overall effect.

thanks i will try that!

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Don't forget my student from last term who played it under speed, and yet still got quite a good mark in the exam!

Yes- I once played an "Allegro" at about 30 crotchet beats per minute under speed in a violin exam (the accompanist started much, much, much too slowly and I COULD NOT get him to start going faster ) and still got 28 for it... I don't think it REALLY matters too much...

id love to play Allegro Molto that slow!

I would imagine that mark is because you actually stayed with the accompanist even though it was wrong.

Don't the regulations say something that means if the accompanist messes up you will be marked on how well you cope.....

i quote

" in cases of difficulty with the accompaniment, the examiner will listen with great attention to the solo line and mark it on its own merits, but inevitably the impact on the overall performance will still be felt"

that'll explain where the 2 marks went then... thanks so much accompanist