AAAAARGGGGGGGGGGHHHH sorry to go on about this, but its my exam tomorrow....(sax 8, clarinet 6)......i am sooo majorly nervous!!!!! do you think its possible to over practise??? just wondering cos my exams are at 2.30 and 4.00 so i cant decide whether or not im going to ALL day before or not.....what do you think??


thank you
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Don't practise too much! For my piano grade 8, I practised far too much until my music teacher banned me from the piano for a day - but afterwards, I played much better because I'd had a break

Yes i think you can over practice!! just play through a handful of scales and go over your pieces in the morning then do something totally different-then you will feel fresh and ready to give all your energy to the exam!And.....lets carry on the bannana trend-eat one and your nerves will dissapear!!

Good luck. Hope it all goes well for you.

Thanks everyone! does anyone know the theory behind the bananas? just wondering because its been mentioned a lot.....

A quick Google™ search came up with this.

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All the best, you can do it

Good luck Vectthemic!

The very best of luck for your grades later today.

Good luck.

Best of luck!

thanks everyone

i just came back and i think (hope) it was ok- for saxophone:
pieces were okish - my accompanist said they were good
scales were good - i could do them all which is really good:)
aural was not great....
i dunno about sight reading

clarinet:
pieces were good
scales were terrible!! i messed out about half.....
aural was okish? not really sure
sight reading was ok.....

the room i was in had really bad acoustics and i could hear an echo of everything i played really loudly....it was really off putting and unnerving.....

so hopefully it was ok, but im not really sure....

thanks
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Well done. It sounds like you did ok.