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QUOTE(sarah-flute @ Oct 19 2005, 03:22 PM)
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My thoughts entirely.
*sympathy* 
Woohoo! Finished french work, now to revise for psychology timed essay, just got to go over +ves and -ves of Kohlberg then I can do some practice before attacking the coursework.
Well done Helen
Yay, I've heard all of the Forum User Speakers!
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Are there any new ones (after Helen)? I keep meaning to check.
I'm practising scales at the computer, how lazy can you get...??!
I'm practising scales at the computer, how lazy can you get...??!
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Hey, everyone seems rather stressed today, hope you all feel better soon. I've got to revise for a maths gcse module in November (can anyone do surds or proof????), history coursework, music composition (which was apparently due in YESTERDAY - I have the theme but not the variations........), I have to write out my Spanish coursework again because I ink-erased too much and my teacher thinks that the exam board might think that I've had unfair help (I haven't, btw) and we're about to start French coursework...........
I'm going to see some people at my school perform shortened versions of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and erm... 'The Scottish Play' (which my friend calls Maccy-Bs!) tonight.
I'm going to see some people at my school perform shortened versions of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and erm... 'The Scottish Play' (which my friend calls Maccy-Bs!) tonight.
I'm only stressed in that I managed to lose my scalebook....!
Sounds like you have a lot of work - hope you can enjoy the Shakespeare tonight
Sounds like you have a lot of work - hope you can enjoy the Shakespeare tonight
Yes, I just want to crawl into a deep hole and disappear atm. I think I'll enjoy the Shakespeare (I auditioned but didn't get a part, which is hardly surpising(I don't do Drama)...... At least I've had more free time instead of having to learn 2 plays in 6 weeks 
I was reading the 'Conflict' thread and a lot of people seem to be implying that GCSE music is 'easy' but no one has got an A* at my school for 4 years now (and some years there haven't been any As either). My GCSE class are all stressed (some of them were in tears yesterday). I'm just wondering what other people think of this.
I was reading the 'Conflict' thread and a lot of people seem to be implying that GCSE music is 'easy' but no one has got an A* at my school for 4 years now (and some years there haven't been any As either). My GCSE class are all stressed (some of them were in tears yesterday). I'm just wondering what other people think of this.
I think from my experience it's just very very bad preparation for A Level or beyond.
Don't despair!! I can help you I was only 1 of 2 people to get A* at my school for Music this year.
I was only 1 of 2 people to get A* at my school for Music this year.
So basically, if I don't get an A* (which I won't!), then no point in doing the A level........
Noooo!!! You don't have to get an A* to do A Level!! I am the only one in my group who is doing A Level who got an A*.
Thanks, Nicki It's just that music is my weakest subject..... I really want to get an A* but can't see how.
My compositions are either technically perfect but don't have anything of 'me' in them or really personal and technically poor......... I just can't win!
It's just that music is my weakest subject..... I really want to get an A* but can't see how.My compositions are either technically perfect but don't have anything of 'me' in them or really personal and technically poor......... I just can't win!
Nope, not at all, the mark you get wouldn't to be honest make me say you should or shouldn't do A Level. (I got an A for GCSE and went on to get a B at A level)
The point is it's not geared (in my experience of A Level and GCSE) to the same things that A Level is. A Level required us to have good performance skills, be able to compose and do it well, stylistically right and in accordance with good harmony ie which bits of chords we could double/no consecutive 5ths etc, for the listening exam we had to write about music, spot and correct errors in music in parts and atonal music... um *thinks* we also had to do short paragraphs and essays about history of music - in our case we did Verdi's operas and classical symphonies....
None of this was anything like anything we had done before, and GCSE didn't prepare us for it. There were people in my class who'd done GCSE and found it reasonably OK and then found themselves over their heads at A Level. Everything is completely different.
I would imagine you will be fine, you have performance skills that will serve you well, and you seem to have good general knowledge of music and more importantly the basic understanding which will enable it all to make sense.... ie there were people for whom the harmony/counterpoint stuff we did was like gibberish to them because they had only reasonable practical skills and the ability to cobble together reasonable compositions and waffle in the listening paper - that may sound harsh but its true. You have the background theory so that when you learn the harmony stuff for example you have the theory to "hang it on" for it to make sense - they didn't. You can to a certain extent get away with bluffing and "managing" at GCSE, it's far harder at A level unless it's changed a great deal since I did it.
The point is it's not geared (in my experience of A Level and GCSE) to the same things that A Level is. A Level required us to have good performance skills, be able to compose and do it well, stylistically right and in accordance with good harmony ie which bits of chords we could double/no consecutive 5ths etc, for the listening exam we had to write about music, spot and correct errors in music in parts and atonal music... um *thinks* we also had to do short paragraphs and essays about history of music - in our case we did Verdi's operas and classical symphonies....
None of this was anything like anything we had done before, and GCSE didn't prepare us for it. There were people in my class who'd done GCSE and found it reasonably OK and then found themselves over their heads at A Level. Everything is completely different.
I would imagine you will be fine, you have performance skills that will serve you well, and you seem to have good general knowledge of music and more importantly the basic understanding which will enable it all to make sense.... ie there were people for whom the harmony/counterpoint stuff we did was like gibberish to them because they had only reasonable practical skills and the ability to cobble together reasonable compositions and waffle in the listening paper - that may sound harsh but its true. You have the background theory so that when you learn the harmony stuff for example you have the theory to "hang it on" for it to make sense - they didn't. You can to a certain extent get away with bluffing and "managing" at GCSE, it's far harder at A level unless it's changed a great deal since I did it.
When we did fast track in our first lesson the teacher said something like 'nobody doing this has ever gotton a B'...and come summer out of the 7 of us in the class 6 got A* and one girl got a B..ouch...
Ahhh, I see what you mean
I think I *might* be able to manage that...... my teacher always says 'save it for A level' when I come up with an idea for a huge composition! And I got the highest mark in my class when we had to write an essay about a piece of music of our own choice but i suspect that that was because half the class didn't do it........
I think I *might* be able to manage that...... my teacher always says 'save it for A level' when I come up with an idea for a huge composition! And I got the highest mark in my class when we had to write an essay about a piece of music of our own choice but i suspect that that was because half the class didn't do it........
QUOTE(Rainbow @ Oct 19 2005, 05:30 PM)
Thanks, Nicki It's just that music is my weakest subject..... I really want to get an A* but can't see how.
My compositions are either technically perfect but don't have anything of 'me' in them or really personal and technically poor......... I just can't win!
It's just that music is my weakest subject..... I really want to get an A* but can't see how.My compositions are either technically perfect but don't have anything of 'me' in them or really personal and technically poor......... I just can't win!
I like composition now because I don't have to defend my compositions to anyone...
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I think I *might* be able to manage that...... my teacher always says 'save it for A level' when I come up with an idea for a huge composition! And I got the highest mark in my class when we had to write an essay about a piece of music of our own choice but i suspect that that was because half the class didn't do it........
Ahhh then you're going to be fine. GCSE is just not the best training ground, even if it's really well taught - but you have had the necessaries from elsewhere. I found A Level quite hard work but far more interesting than GCSE
I know what you mean....... the sense of stupidity when people don't 'get' your composition!
Got to go now - piano lesson!
Got to go now - piano lesson!
Have a good lesson, and no, that feeling isn't just you if in doubt, compose what you have to for school and save things that are very personal for your own pleasure if the teacher looks askance at them
I have to go too!
if in doubt, compose what you have to for school and save things that are very personal for your own pleasure if the teacher looks askance at them I have to go too!
I have to agree, A Level is so different from GCSE!
GRRRRRRRRR..Its quite unlikely that anyone else was listening but I'm quite cross now! On Classic fm they have a daily playlist that they tend to stick to, i had a look yesterday and it said that at 19.14 today they would play 'Nefeli' by Einaudi...and i got quite excited..lol. Went to listen at 19.14 and they played 'Le Onde' instead...but i thought 'oh well at least its Einaudi, maybe they changed their minds or something'...but then at the end of the track they said 'And that was Ludovico Einaudi's NEFELI'!!!!!!!!!!!! 
QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Oct 19 2005, 07:30 PM)
GRRRRRRRRR..Its quite unlikely that anyone else was listening but I'm quite cross now! On Classic fm they have a daily playlist that they tend to stick to, i had a look yesterday and it said that at 19.14 today they would play 'Nefeli' by Einaudi...and i got quite excited..lol. Went to listen at 19.14 and they played 'Le Onde' instead...but i thought 'oh well at least its Einaudi, maybe they changed their minds or something'...but then at the end of the track they said 'And that was Ludovico Einaudi's NEFELI'!!!!!!!!!!!!
Didn't hear the announcement but it WAS definitely Le Onde!! Must have played the wrong track...the idiots!
You would have thought that being musicky people, even if they DID play the wrong track they'd at least name it correctly!!
</cough> ClassicFM </cough>
*Not* Radio 3.
Can't expect them to realise (Soz CFM fanz)
*Not* Radio 3.
Can't expect them to realise (Soz CFM fanz)
QUOTE(janexxx @ Oct 19 2005, 07:36 PM)
</cough> ClassicFM </cough>
*Not* Radio 3.
Can't expect them to realise (Soz CFM fanz)
*Not* Radio 3.
Can't expect them to realise (Soz CFM fanz)
huh?
Well..not really CFM fan anyone..just indignant Einaudi fan!!
I get annoyed by C. FM but can't seem to find Radio 3 that appealing!
QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Oct 19 2005, 07:40 PM)
I get annoyed by C. FM but can't seem to find Radio 3 that appealing!
Same....got annoyed the other day as well when they said they would play the Schindler's List theme at 8 in the morning and i even set my alarm...but they didnt play it.
Hello! Thought that I'd just pop in, still quite busy so I'm off now.
Anyone for some Earl Grey? I haven't toasted any teacakes for pages either, anyone want one of those?
In my day A* for GCSE didn't exist <feels old>.
Radio 3 isn't immune from making mistakes, but Classic FM really specialises. I didn't hear it myself, but they played Dawn from the Four Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten), and then said... wait for it... Thank goodness she wasn't called Tracey
In my day A* for GCSE didn't exist <feels old>.
Radio 3 isn't immune from making mistakes, but Classic FM really specialises. I didn't hear it myself, but they played Dawn from the Four Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten), and then said... wait for it... Thank goodness she wasn't called Tracey
Rello all...and noodelz! I listen to classic FM in the morning in the car on the way to school and then when I get home I listen to the local radio station... I think Classic FM is better than Radio 3 (definitely) but they don't play the songs they say they're going to play! (I've got a spanish test tomorrow so sorry if I type randomly in spanish...)
I've got a Geography test tomorrow!
Car Expert
Car Expert
Oh dear. Good luck with the revision. How did your guitar lesson go?
QUOTE(Deborah @ Oct 19 2005, 08:50 PM)
Anyone for some Earl Grey? I haven't toasted any teacakes for pages either, anyone want one of those?
In my day A* for GCSE didn't exist <feels old>.
In my day A* for GCSE didn't exist <feels old>.
I'd love some Earl Grey, Deborah.
In my day GCSEs didn't exist, and my 'O'levels (Cambridge board) were 1-6 for a pass, 7-9 for a fail.
My lesson is at possibly the worst time I could have: Tuesday at 10:20.
Reasons:
- Day where I carry the most things; Graphics folder; P.E. kit; Science revision guides
- Middle of lesson (ICT)
Anyway, the lesson went well. I even had a try at plucking the strings! Unfortunately, I have to wait three weeks for my next lesson because next week is half-term and the week after on Tuesday is target-setting day!
Car Expert
Reasons:
- Day where I carry the most things; Graphics folder; P.E. kit; Science revision guides
- Middle of lesson (ICT)
Anyway, the lesson went well. I even had a try at plucking the strings! Unfortunately, I have to wait three weeks for my next lesson because next week is half-term and the week after on Tuesday is target-setting day!
Car Expert
Three weeks - plenty of time to practice then! Soon you'll be a guitar expert!
I haven't got the guitar yet!
Car Expert
Car Expert
That might be a slight problem. When are you getting it?
In my first lesson.
Car Expert
Car Expert
Lol sounds like you're already a professional CE...have fun learning it! I wish I learnt the guitar now...or the sax...but the violin is still groovy I suppose...
does bob look kind of like that when he's playing the guitar now?
does bob look kind of like that when he's playing the guitar now?
I can't wait! (as in I want to start learning now!!!)
Car Expert
Car Expert
QUOTE(CrazyDudette22 @ Oct 19 2005, 09:10 PM)
does bob look kind of like that when he's playing the guitar now?
QUOTE(Bob the Penguin)
No, but I must act like her soon!
She looks cute!
She looks cute! Bob
QUOTE(CrazyDudette22 @ Oct 19 2005, 08:50 PM)
I listen to the local radio station...
What, Trent? I used to too but they're rubbish compared to Radio 1 (for rock) and CFM (for classical)!
QUOTE(CrazyDudette22 @ Oct 19 2005, 09:10 PM)
I wish I learnt the guitar now...or the sex...but the violin is still groovy I suppose...
*cough* You might want to edit that...
QUOTE(Car Expert @ Oct 19 2005, 09:09 PM)
In my first lesson.
Car Expert
Car Expert
Did you not have a lesson today?
LOL! I always mistype something... *post edited*
Trent FM are good but I cant get a good reception for Radio 1...or classic fm...
*post edited*Trent FM are good but I cant get a good reception for Radio 1...or classic fm...
whoops, good typo!
QUOTE(noodle @ Oct 19 2005, 09:19 PM)
QUOTE(Car Expert @ Oct 19 2005, 09:09 PM)
In my first lesson.
Car Expert
Car Expert
Did you not have a lesson today?
Yes, I met the guitar teacher today and he told me what would usually happen during a lesson. He even showed me the new book which I will use. He said learning the piano is an advantage because you know about the different notes.
Car Expert
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