ive got my grade 6 piano exam date

4 th March, oh help,i still cant do arpeggios!

You'll be fine. Keep practising them. You have 1/2 term next week, so in theory, you'll have more time and be more chilled out

You'll be find just remember to breath.

you mean breathe?!

Good luck Nat!

Good luck from me, too!

I haven't found out my exam date yet! I hope it isn't that soon, though! I ordered books to help me prepare for the aural and sight reading parts on musicroom.com over a month ago! They must have got lost in the post...HELP!

QUOTE (cecilia @ Feb 9 2005, 04:56 PM)

Good luck Nat!

Uhh yeh .. just checking that you can read heh.

hmm yes lol! must dash got a concert tonnight woohoo!!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 9 2005, 04:11 PM)

ive got my grade 6 piano exam date 4 th March, oh help,i still cant do arpeggios!

wow

Not long to go. Just think soon you will be a grade 6 pianist

thats if i pass!

<has a coughing fit over the keyboard and decides she really can't afford to keep strngling Natalie, in case she gets kicked off for violence>

If you fail, I promiser to consume a large quanity of peas. I loathe peas...or even better... pea soup!


(Don't fail now Natalie will you.. )

Tamsin, that is the same as me eating a whole load of fruit. I hate fruit, and my friends have made me eat fruit for Lent (2 pieces a day!!!) ERGH!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 9 2005, 05:19 PM)

thats if i pass!

Of course you will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have fun with arpeggios, learn all the Keys !

OK, well if Natalie failes, (and you decide you will endure fruit like I will peas) them we'll both get very healthy... NOT Natlie, that that gives you a reason to fail.

I have to say that I like sweetcorn. Its amazing, I mean sweet vegetables!
Although I have heard you don't digest it.

Tamsin, I too hate peas. Ewwwww

I know you can't read it but I like colours.

You won't fail Nat, and if you do there is NO WAY that I would eat peas

Your exam is the day before I go to Spain!

Maybe if you fail, I should eat 5 portions of fruit a day. Now, I don't know whether I could manage that!!!

Does anyone out there manage to eat 5 portions a day?

Calling all ye healthy people!

not five portions of fruit. I think fruit is boring, although summer type fruits aren't too bad. I prefer veggies.

And you will pass Nat.

Well I'm not promising to eat peas for any event, no matter how improbable!

Aren't the arpeggios just the ones that you passed grade 5 doing only in the last exam period just more octaves? You can do them and you have done them. It does sound more daunting in all the keys but a lot of them are the same, if you split them into ones that are the same and only practice one from each pattern for a while to get them going and then learn the rest afterwards (you'll actually find that you can do them already just start on a different note). Maybe splitting up what you have to learn into fewer problems will help you mentally overcome what seems like a bigger hurdle than it really is: you always seem to be under a big pile of achieving a huge task but if you break it down into smaller chunks (oh, no I'm starting to sound like BBC bitesize now ) you'll find it a lot easier to practically deal with. Good luck, tell yourself you can and you will....

the examiner in grade 5 commented on my arpeggios being bad! not in that exact wording, but he said i made slips in them

Somehow an extra 2 octaves at a much faster speed seems to make a huge difference with arpeggios! What do you think?

I wouldn't worry about it too much Nat, I completely forgot some arpeggios in my last piano exam, and had to have several attempts to get it right but the rest of the scales were ok, so overall the score in the scales section was still quite good (suprisingly)

If you make huge mistakes you can still do well, I think its highly unlikely you will fail just on arpeggios as long as you're ok with your pieces

in a calm situation my pieces are ok, but put me in front of someone haha i mess everything up

My piano teacher said once to imagine the examiner is sitting on the toilet, or something to that effect............that help?

nothin helps, im just awful in front of people in an exam situation

well i don't know if this has any relevance, but all other exams i have had, i've gone in there nervous, and worrying before it and everything, but the last one i took i was determined not to be nervous at all, and I went in and did it, and made more of a mess of it then I had done any other.

So in a way, I think that the nerves help somehow and you can use the adrenaline to your advantage (or am I just spouting rubbish now? )

you talk sense lol!! i cant use the adrenaline to my advantage, it just doesn't work for me! if one thing goes wrong then everything goes wrong. basically if i mess up my 1st piece then its guaranteed the whole exam will be dreadful, so i might as well walk out then

do you usually do your pieces or scales first?

scales usually

Wot?

You - the Board's leading expert on Le Onde.

Of course you can play arpeggios!!!!!!!!!



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Good luck, and let us know how you get on.

anyhow, i reckon anyone who's professional at Grand Woohoo, should be able to walk all over those arpeggios!

However did you get so many grades if you cant play in front of people!!!!

QUOTE (uberzoldat @ Feb 10 2005, 07:53 PM)

However did you get so many grades if you cant play in front of people!!!!

the examiners feel sorry for me when my face looks like thunder as i walk out of the room

funny....now you mention it, maybe that was how i didnt fail last time

QUOTE (uberzoldat @ Feb 10 2005, 07:58 PM)

funny....now you mention it, maybe that was how i didnt fail last time

lol. thats what i reckon anyway, they take pity on me coz im so rubbish!

I'm sure thats not true. maybe theres a loophole in the rules somewhere.......

lol. ah well, if i fail, i fail, nothin i can do about it. i'll just have to get used to it

I guess so.. good luck anyway. hope you pass whatever happens

thanks

Good Luck !!!

THANK YOU!

You're welcome....

Nat, you can do it, if I can, you can! You'll sound fab!