QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 09:47 AM) 
Just found out I managed to get an A in my recent prac mus exam. That was rather surprising!
Well done MrB.
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Just found out I managed to get an A in my recent prac mus exam. That was rather surprising!
Well done MrB.
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 09:47 AM)
Just found out I managed to get an A in my recent prac mus exam. That was rather surprising!
Well done MrB
Wonder what choddy got....
Well done for your student, SuePea, and well done MrB 
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 09:47 AM)
Just found out I managed to get an A in my recent prac mus exam. That was rather surprising!
Yay - you rule!
Well done KJ
Well done MrB
Well done MrB
Well done, MrB. You'll be running out of exams to take very shortly. 
Great result, Mr B
Thanks folks. I'm all spent on grade 8s now unless I can find some soul to give me a harpsichord and force me to learn figured bass properly 
The only thing for it: pick up the clarinet again which has sat in its case forlornly now for the last 12 months and apply myself!
The only thing for it: pick up the clarinet again which has sat in its case forlornly now for the last 12 months and apply myself!
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 07:54 PM)
The only thing for it: pick up the clarinet again which has sat in its case forlornly now for the last 12 months and apply myself!
Sounds like a plan!
Well done mrb!! I got a B which was a little disappointing but then when I saw this was a merit on my certificate I was happy enough considering I hadn't done an awful lot of work for it. Perhaps I should consider grade 6 and put more effort in!
QUOTE(jazzywench @ Mar 20 2007, 09:00 PM)
Well done mrb!! I got a B which was a little disappointing but then when I saw this was a merit on my certificate I was happy enough considering I hadn't done an awful lot of work for it. Perhaps I should consider grade 6 and put more effort in!
well done Jazzywench, and snap!
It might have already been covered in this thread, but excuse me I am a little drunk to search through all of it, so er, what exactly does a practical musicianship exam involve?
QUOTE(splunket @ Mar 20 2007, 09:51 PM)
It might have already been covered in this thread, but excuse me I am a little drunk to search through all of it, so er, what exactly does a practical musicianship exam involve?
Check the syllabus out at www.abrsm.org... basically you turn up, fool about a bit (sing a bit, improvise a bit, talk about a bit of music) and go home again. Two weeks later: voila!
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Mar 20 2007, 07:57 PM)
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 07:54 PM)
The only thing for it: pick up the clarinet again which has sat in its case forlornly now for the last 12 months and apply myself!
Sounds like a plan!
Couldn't have put it better myself, Sarah!
mrb, unless you've forgotten EVERYTHING, you could sit Grade 1 this summer (wearing full FRSM robes
) and clock up yet another distinction. After all, you were playing Grade 1 pieces in your second lesson. Dare you to learn most of the pieces on the syllabus and when the examiner asks "what are you playing?" give the reply "which of the pieces would you like to hear?".There's still over a month to the closing date
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 10:26 PM)
Check the syllabus out at www.abrsm.org... basically you turn up, fool about a bit (sing a bit, improvise a bit, talk about a bit of music) and go home again. Two weeks later: voila!
Sounds like fun!
QUOTE(Deborah @ Mar 21 2007, 08:42 AM)
Dare you to learn most of the pieces on the syllabus and when the examiner asks "what are you playing?" give the reply "which of the pieces would you like to hear?".
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 10:26 PM)
Two weeks later: voila!
Or, given that this started as Katyjay's thread, and elsewhere she has admitted being 'addicted to multi-instrumentalism' and bidding on (but not winning)one:
Two weeks later: VIOLA!
Sorry, it's really lame, it's just I had to read MrB's post more than once to check which word that was; probably a sign of something, that I'm seeing instrument names and musical connections everywhere...
QUOTE(Maizie @ Mar 21 2007, 11:37 AM)
QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Mar 20 2007, 10:26 PM)
Two weeks later: voila!
Or, given that this started as Katyjay's thread, and elsewhere she has admitted being 'addicted to multi-instrumentalism' and bidding on (but not winning)one:
Two weeks later: VIOLA!
Sorry, it's really lame, it's just I had to read MrB's post more than once to check which word that was; probably a sign of something, that I'm seeing instrument names and musical connections everywhere...
Groan!
Truly bad, Maizie... well done
QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Mar 21 2007, 10:40 AM)
QUOTE(Deborah @ Mar 21 2007, 08:42 AM)
Dare you to learn most of the pieces on the syllabus and when the examiner asks "what are you playing?" give the reply "which of the pieces would you like to hear?".
Apparently as a young performer giving an encore to his recital, Saint-Saens would ask a member of the audience which Beethoven Sonata they would like to hear and then proceed to play it - from memory!
Anyone dare to have a go at the grade 8 practical musicianship? I read this thread with interest last night, went to my shelf (as I knew I had a practical musicianship book there somewhere), and discovered I have the grades 6-8 copy. After taking the grade 8 singing this week (after a break of 15 years or so) i'm all geared up for exams again. Does anyone know if the transposition on piano would have to be with 2 hands or just 1? (I'm guessing 2 but hoping 1 ).
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QUOTE(possom @ Mar 23 2007, 09:38 AM)
Anyone dare to have a go at the grade 8 practical musicianship? I read this thread with interest last night, went to my shelf (as I knew I had a practical musicianship book there somewhere), and discovered I have the grades 6-8 copy. After taking the grade 8 singing this week (after a break of 15 years or so) i'm all geared up for exams again. Does anyone know if the transposition on piano would have to be with 2 hands or just 1? (I'm guessing 2 but hoping 1
).let me get over the upheaval of this term's exam first....
QUOTE(possom @ Mar 23 2007, 09:38 AM)
Anyone dare to have a go at the grade 8 practical musicianship? I read this thread with interest last night, went to my shelf (as I knew I had a practical musicianship book there somewhere), and discovered I have the grades 6-8 copy. After taking the grade 8 singing this week (after a break of 15 years or so) i'm all geared up for exams again. Does anyone know if the transposition on piano would have to be with 2 hands or just 1? (I'm guessing 2 but hoping 1
).You don't have to transpose, it's simply an option... I did the other option which seemed a bit more straightforward!
What is the other option? I forget... 
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