I remembered once I took my exam and I ruined my whole entire piece by playing wrong notes and it sounded horrible. I was so sad that I put my elbow on the piano's edge and tears were like threatening to fall down... LOL By the time the examiner gave Aural tests... I was like half-crying .... red eyed and all those stuff... When i finished the exams... I just burst out crying.... (I'm out of the examination room already)

It's just how funny music can make you feel.... I know i really was so down down down at that time... but i didn't fail that piece though.... mayb it's because it's a 20th century song... LOL:)..... So... what's your story??? Can you share it with me??? Thankzzzzzzz

Well, I wonder why I bother taking exams, as I get panic attacks over then, and am completely phobic about them, but aside from that, music is a love love thing.

Theres the satisfaction of working on a piece till you know its wonderful ( only to mess it up completely through nerves in an exam~ the most disheartening thing in the world!) and it gives such great opportunities for meeting people!

when i got home after my clarinet gde 5 exam(1st time) i cried coz i did sooo badly

I always feel really happy when I play a piece well... and really depressed when I play badly. I messed up in my viola lesson this morning and have been feeling depressed ever since

I cried when I got my exam results this year! (I was soo HAPPY!) yeah i no its a bit sad, but a gals gotta celebrate innit!

Well I just took my grade 3 piano and I cried all the way through the exam and played terribly - I was so nervous and I have really high expectations of myself which is ironic as it means that I seem to do badly on the day - even though the examiners are all really nice and I enjoy the instrument and the work!!!The examiner was really nice though

I think its the pressure we put on ourselves - I only got a pass and I always want to do really well so I get all worked up - I'm a singer so public performance shouldnt make me nervous but I seem to lose confidence with piano- maybe I need to play more in public but at such a low grade I dont think I'd have the guts - Any advice?

i havent been to any exams but i have cried before.

Sometimes, when im playing my piano, i just think that im so bad at piano and never going to make it as a musician because i started so late (T____T)

and then i sit thre and become so depress and cry summore

speaking of laughter, the only piece of music which i have laughed when i frist listened to in my whole entire life, was Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 ..guess i could feel the *animato/humerous* part

i can cry in the middle of practising or the time when i'm listening to a piece of music...

I cried playing a second movement of schubert's sonata for piano.

after i re-took grade 5 theory exam, i cried.
probably because i thought i was going to fail it again.
but when you look back at stuff like that, you can't help but laugh.

I think most of those don't match up to how I stuffed up in a choir audition.

I sang a piece, which I probably sang out of tune - I was stopped halfway and asked if I knew any well-known pieces, such as Christmas carols - my mind was a complete blank and I sang another totally random song that my friend who auditioned before me sang.

Next: "Do you play any other instruments?"
"Yes, violin."
"For how long?"
"Three years."
"Do you read music?"
"Not very well."

I said that because I wanted to avoid singing something from the sheet music, but how stupid does that sound?

In singing scales, I think I sounded like a strangled cat.

In 'sing the lowest/highest note of this chord': I think I probably sang the same, out of tune, note three times.

Naturally, I didn't get in the choir.

After having a stress attack during my grade 7 clarinet exam this summer - I felt things couldn't get any worse ...... I lost a lot of confidence ...... the aural went really badly....... couldn't even site a possible composer .....At the end of the exam, I shook the examiners hand and quickly made my exit. Outside, waiting with their ears at the door was one of my teachers and my pianist - " How did it go ?" I pushed past them and ran to the bottom of the garden, where I howled for at least half an hour. I then had to come back and have lunch with the examiner - that was SO hard - can't mention the exam, nice small talk etc etc (eyes like boiled eggs). WWHATTT a stressful day - I was sure I'd failed, but I was wrong, I passed with merit !!!!!! Then I nearly cried with joy !!

doesn't really matter.... it will come eventually...with practise...