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Reply 1240

Indeed.

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I found out on Saturday that I passed Grade 8 Singing! :smile:

Reply 1241

Doublereedfreak

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Oh my God I got a distinction. :biggrin:

Eeeeeeee!
She was veryyyyy genrous with her marks for scales top be honest though.
So happy now!

Reply 1242

LostHorizons

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I'll be doing grade 5 theory and grade 6 piano next session but there isn't a thread for next year yet :frown:

I'm finding theory hellish at the moment. I've never done any theory before and I hadn't really anticipated how difficult it would be to throw myself in at grade 5 when I have no prior knowledge. I am enjoying it, in a masochistic way, and it feels great when I finally understand something, but it's so frustrating when I keep getting things muddled up and not being able to see where I'm going wrong. Just needed to rant a little :o:

Reply 1243

Angelil

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LH: grade 6 piano and you have no prior theory knowledge?! are you sure?!

I do know how you feel though (to an extent). I entered school in Year 7 not able to read music at all and only able to play the recorder a tiny bit. I carried on playing the recorder and messing around on the piano a bit, took some singing lessons and finally took my Grade 5 Theory in Year 13, having never taken any theory exams before and having only taken 2 formal music exams (Grade 3 and 5 Voice). So it was a bit overwhelming to start with the theory from scratch like that....remember writing out my cycle of fifths over and over again...!

Reply 1244

clarinetplayer92

Indeed.

I found out on Saturday that I passed Grade 8 Singing! :smile:

Congrats

Doublereedfreak

Oh my God I got a distinction.
Eeeeeeee!
She was veryyyyy genrous with her marks for scales top be honest though.
So happy now!

Wehay!!

Reply 1245

LostHorizons

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Angelil

LH: grade 6 piano and you have no prior theory knowledge?! are you sure?!

I do know how you feel though (to an extent). I entered school in Year 7 not able to read music at all and only able to play the recorder a tiny bit. I carried on playing the recorder and messing around on the piano a bit, took some singing lessons and finally took my Grade 5 Theory in Year 13, having never taken any theory exams before and having only taken 2 formal music exams (Grade 3 and 5 Voice). So it was a bit overwhelming to start with the theory from scratch like that....remember writing out my cycle of fifths over and over again...!

I'm not at all sure! I've done grade 3 and grade 5 piano, and don't feel toooo worried about taking grade 6 next summer (except for the sightreading, which I've failed hard at both times before), but theory is completely new grounds for me. Some of it I do find okay, since it's stuff I've sort of learned through reading sheet music and learning scales for grades, but a lot of it is completely new to me. I've got until November to learn it, and will hopefully be able to spend a lot of time on it since I'm basically on a gap year now and highly doubt I'll be lucky enough to find a job any time soon, but yeah. Still scary stuff. I just really, really want to do it now since I know I'm highly unlikely to bother carrying on with music grades at university, and it is something I want to learn...it's just really frustrating me at the moment, haha.

Reply 1246

Angelil

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You'll make it :smile:

Fear not! You have plenty of time on your hands to just get it done by the sounds of things :smile:

I took a year and a half to do mine, but I think that was on only one class a week in term time...

Reply 1247

LostHorizons

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Yeah, it'll be nice to be able to spend lots of time every day learning theory and learning things for the exam. I did quite badly in grade 5 piano since it fell in the same week as 2 other exams and I was more worried about A level work, and I reeeeally would like to get a better mark this time! Although I've just been into town today to buy the book of grade 6 pieces and they look scary. There is a biiig difference between grade 5 and grade 6 :s-smilie:

Reply 1248

meatball893

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I got a distinction at Grade 8 piano! I was really shocked as I was only half expecting to pass it, and hadn't dared to hope for anything more. It was only just a distinction, but I'm still euphoric! :biggrin:

LostHorizons

...there isn't a thread for next year yet :frown:

...

This thread has been going for years! 2003, if I remember correctly (which is highly unlikely but I'm not looking now).

Reply 1249

LostHorizons

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meatball893

I got a distinction at Grade 8 piano! I was really shocked as I was only half expecting to pass it, and hadn't dared to hope for anything more. It was only just a distinction, but I'm still euphoric! :biggrin:

This thread has been going for years! 2003, if I remember correctly (which is highly unlikely but I'm not looking now).

Ah, I just checked. 2006, haha. I just assumed it'd been made for the current session.

Well done on the distinction! The best mark I've ever managed is 4 marks off a distinction in grade 3 piano :o:

I am going to work myself into an early grave to get distinctions in grade 5 music theory and grade 6 piano next year!

Reply 1250

Witty Username

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meatball893

I got a distinction at Grade 8 piano! I was really shocked as I was only half expecting to pass it, and hadn't dared to hope for anything more. It was only just a distinction, but I'm still euphoric! :biggrin: