Hello, im mini_mozart, this is a bit about me,

Im 10 years old, and i have been piano for 5 years, and have just done grade 8! But i was really forced into doing it, my mum and dad, wanted me to learn piano, and often forced me to do it, so they could show off to my family, and their friends.

I am really under alot of pressure, as they have a lot of my music career already planned out. I do like piano, and im proud of being a grade 8, in which i got 131 in!! But i feel im doing it for my mum and dad and not me!!

Please help me

Charlie

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You cannot just do music for your parents, making your child do piano because your parents wanted to show off is not the reason why a person should start an instrument. You need to talk to your parents and tell them that you feel under too much pressure, because of them. Do you enjoy music, when you are just playing or is it like a chore to you?

Sorry that you don't enjoy your music as it would seem that you are really very good.
To pass grade 8 with such a high mark at 10 when you are not interested is amazing!! You must play as though you are interested as if you played as though it was a chore you wouldn't have such a good mark.

Are you able to talk to your parents about how you feel.
Maybe let them know that you would like to just play for fun now or that you might like a break from lessons?

Yes, well sometimes it depends, i enjoy it most of the time, but when we have family round, and i have to perform, cos im scared if i make a mistake, if i do i will get told off when they have gone!!!

I enjioy playin songs to myself, when i can do them, freely, and i enjoy lessons with my teacher, but......

IM JUST DOING IT FOR THEM REALLY!!!!!!

They make me do it, i dont have a choice!!!!

Charlie

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What do they say to you if you play something wrong? Do they tell you off even for the slightest mistake? Do they make you do anything else? (Like pressurise you to get the best grades at school?)

How much practice did you have to do a day?

Do they tie you to the piano stool?

Are your parents musicians too? If you don't fancy a career in music you could tell them that it isn't a lucrative career path to be doing

Mini_Mozart,
you are doing really well to have got to the level you're at! Everyone goes through different feelings about what they are learning as time passes - sometimes we love it, sometimes it's a struggle. When it isn't such fun, lots of people need to have a break - or find that just doing some completely different music gets them through. You might want to see if there is somebody else you can play with for fun - duets/two piano/accompanying, or try other styles like jazz, improvising/composing. My local library has lots of music in different styles and it's great to take some out just to sightread and have fun with. But reminding yourself what you really enjoy and going back to play pieces you liked a while ago will also help. Hope you can talk to other people about it, and let us know how it goes.

First of all, I think it's great that you passed grade 8 at such a young age. Music is meant to be fun and if you are put under pressure by your parents (or by anyone else) you are not going to enjoy it. Maybe you should take a break for a while or just play music for fun - duets, trios, jazz, accompanying, composing.
Good luck,
Rainbow

I think this is a send up

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I think this is a send up

Why?

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 8 2005, 08:15 AM)

QUOTE I think this is a send up Why?

Hopefully not.

Last year's Young Musician of the Year finalist was not much older

Was that the violinist, Nicola somebody? Wasn't she about 16?

I think they're talking about the piano finalist, 11-year-old Benjamin Grover (I think that's his name anyway)

Ah right, well, yes, I am sure the flautist who was a boy, can't remember his name was only about that old too.

The flautist, I believe, was 13 or 14, but I can't remember exactly...

Ah, I remember now *after searching on the Young Person of the Year website*

no this is not a send up,

QUOTE (Silver pianist @ Jan 7 2005, 11:02 PM)

I think this is a send up

I was thinking of that too. The tone doesn't sound too right.

QUOTE (socks @ Jan 8 2005, 08:03 PM)

QUOTE (Silver pianist @ Jan 7 2005, 11:02 PM) I think this is a send up I was thinking of that too. The tone doesn't sound too right.

I don't think so. As for "the tone doesn't sound too right", you are forgetting that on the internet anything can be interpretted how you like, not necessarily how it was intended.

the flautists name was Adam somethingmajig

Adam Walker?

thats the one! i can only remember the vilolinists name but none of the rest!

The violinist was Nicola Benzetti or something Italian sounding!!

benedetti! but wasnt she scottish

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Jan 8 2005, 08:47 PM)

QUOTE (socks @ Jan 8 2005, 08:03 PM) QUOTE (Silver pianist @ Jan 7 2005, 11:02 PM) I think this is a send up I was thinking of that too. The tone doesn't sound too right. I don't think so. Look at the linguistics of the first post. As for "the tone doesn't sound too right", you are forgetting that on the internet anything can be interpretted how you like, not necessarily how it was intended.

What do you mean by linguistics?

Look, i am not asking you to believe me or not. But all i want is some advice,

charlie

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Erm Piano_Lady, you cannot be the same person as Mini_Mozart as in your signature it says you are only Grade 2 piano, and "Charlie" was Grade 8:

Piano Lady -

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Hi, im holly. I now have a piano, and lessons!!! I love chopin, and scott joplin.. Ragtime and classical rock!!! Yay!!!! I love Piano, doing grade 2 next year.!!!!

Mini_Mozart-

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Im 10 years old, and i have been piano for 5 years, and have just done grade 8!

QUOTE (Piano_Lady @ Jan 9 2005, 10:01 AM)

Look, i am not asking you to believe me or not. But all i want is some advice, charlie x

um... how can you be holly and charlie....? no disrespect to Charlie(if he exists)but I have never known a 10 year old to type like that or to spell like that even if he has spell checker. (although if he is gifted like that in piano--he very well may be a computer prodigy,too ) once again, I dont know anything,but this all sounds fishy to me.

well he did use a large number of commas, but I doubt I could have written that well when I was 10

QUOTE (jasbeth @ Jan 9 2005, 01:48 PM)

um... how can you be holly and charlie....? no disrespect to Charlie(if he exists)

Or 'she'?

Hmm maybe Holly and Charlie actually are the same person... multi-personality disorder perhaps, and one side can play the piano really well, the other only moderately?

My guess, and I think that this is far more likely, is that Charlie maybe signed in on Holly's account by accident (this has happened to me before, when I've signed in on my brother's account accidentally) and posted without realising.

Or, maybe, Holly is, for some reason, pretending to be someone called Charlie who has Grade 8 piano... maybe just to confuse us (?)

Well, never mind. Not my problem.

charlie is my cousin, and just told me he has joined, and i dont no but he must of gone on to mine, im going to ask him about it, lol.

QUOTE (Piano_Lady @ Jan 9 2005, 05:56 PM)

charlie is my cousin, and just told me he has joined, and i dont no but he must of gone on to mine, im going to ask him about it, lol.

Um... I think you are needing a more secure password...

yeah holly, perhaps you need to change yourpassword from scott joplin to something else!

QUOTE (Piano_Lady @ Jan 9 2005, 05:56 PM)

charlie is my cousin, and just told me he has joined, and i dont no but he must of gone on to mine, im going to ask him about it, lol.

oh really?

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Jan 8 2005, 08:47 PM)

QUOTE (socks @ Jan 8 2005, 08:03 PM) QUOTE (Silver pianist @ Jan 7 2005, 11:02 PM) I think this is a send up I was thinking of that too. The tone doesn't sound too right. I don't think so. As for "the tone doesn't sound too right", you are forgetting that on the internet anything can be interpretted how you like, not necessarily how it was intended.

I may be wrong, of course. Just stating how it feels like to me. The sentence structure is just too calculated.

Guess we stop responding to this totally useless thread and ask the administrators to close it down!!