music outside of school during yr12

[AzureBlue]

hahaa yeah, sometimes if i can't turn the page, i'd turn it a few bars in advance or just memorise a little behind.
what's more annoying is the flip/woosh sound when you turn the page
and sometimes if i listen to the recording too many times, i get more sick of it haha! not to mention i wasn't sick of the piece to begin with.

Yeah, that's what I do too... I memorised most of my pieces, but when pieces have parts (like the Romanian Folk Dances) the page turns weren't much of a problem, because there's meant to be a slight break between each dance anyway. In my lower grades, I stuck a photocopied version of each page I needed to the actual book so I ended up having to not turn pages but there was a long line of sheets!

[ninwa]

lol, that must be wayy embarrassing but you can't afford to make a slip in a dip exam xD
i'm sure i can improvise my way out, but the examiner would have the music with him right?

I can't actually remember if I brought in a copy of music for the examiners, I don't think I did, but people who examine diploma exams are pretty pro and will know most of the syllabus anyway (unless you're playing something obscure/20th century).

My teacher's an examiner and they don't care so much about slips, if they are small ones and you recover in a professional way. At that level they care more about musicality and performance skills. He's passed plenty of people who've had minor memory lapses...

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Yeah, that's what I do too... I memorised most of my pieces, but when pieces have parts (like the Romanian Folk Dances) the page turns weren't much of a problem, because there's meant to be a slight break between each dance anyway. In my lower grades, I stuck a photocopied version of each page I needed to the actual book so I ended up having to not turn pages but there was a long line of sheets!

Oh yeah, I used to do that too
when I was in lower grades there would be a max of 4 pages on the piano stand

[|ll|lll|]

lol, that must be wayy embarrassing but you can't afford to make a slip in a dip exam xD
i'm sure i can improvise my way out, but the examiner would have the music with him right?

I can't actually remember if I brought in a copy of music for the examiners, I don't think I did, but people who examine diploma exams are pretty pro and will know most of the syllabus anyway (unless you're playing something obscure/20th century).

My teacher's an examiner and they don't care so much about slips, if they are small ones and you recover in a professional way. At that level they care more about musicality and performance skills. He's passed plenty of people who've had minor memory lapses...

i'm playing rach for my 20th cent piece, haha but i might be changing to bartok/debussy or something :/
when i mentioned slip, i mean slip as in, a sudden blanking out and pausing for a moment and then only playing again after you remembered the parts after where you stopped. will be really awkward and ruins the quality of the performance :S

[AzureBlue]

Oh yeah, I used to do that too
when I was in lower grades there would be a max of 4 pages on the piano stand

Yeah, and when I got to higher grades, there'd be 10 + pages on the stand and it'd start looking funny and falling off so I gave up and started using display folders and books

[AzureBlue]

lol, that must be wayy embarrassing but you can't afford to make a slip in a dip exam xD
i'm sure i can improvise my way out, but the examiner would have the music with him right?

I can't actually remember if I brought in a copy of music for the examiners, I don't think I did, but people who examine diploma exams are pretty pro and will know most of the syllabus anyway (unless you're playing something obscure/20th century).
My teacher's an examiner and they don't care so much about slips, if they are small ones and you recover in a professional way. At that level they care more about musicality and performance skills. He's passed plenty of people who've had minor memory lapses...

i'm playing rach for my 20th cent piece, haha but i might be changing to bartok/debussy or something :/
when i mentioned slip, i mean slip as in, a sudden blanking out and pausing for a moment and then only playing again after you remembered the parts after where you stopped. will be really awkward and ruins the quality of the performance :S

Yeah, my teacher (when I was learning piano) was an examiner too. They know their stuff well
You don't pause with memory lapses, it's best to just skip forward a few bars and continue playing (good recovery).

[the.watchman]

Oh yeah, I used to do that too
when I was in lower grades there would be a max of 4 pages on the piano stand

Yeah, and when I got to higher grades, there'd be 10 + pages on the stand and it'd start looking funny and falling off so I gave up and started using display folders and books

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

[AzureBlue]

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

[the.watchman]

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

I'm not a believer of scrapbooks, too fiddly
Now I use my computer a lot as well, although scrolling is a nuisance

[AzureBlue]

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

I'm not a believer of scrapbooks, too fiddly
Now I use my computer a lot as well, although scrolling is a nuisance

How can you use your computer to view the manuscript when you're playing any instrument... don't you use a stand?

[ninwa]

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

OMG I thought my teacher was the only one who highlights all over the music!

By the time I've worked on a piece for a while, every lesson 5 minutes is spent on trying to find a colour he hasn't used before *sigh* and I swear he has a highlighter factory, they're all over the floor, in boxes, on the piano, in the piano...

[|ll|lll|]

i thought that using highlighters would make it too "outstanding"...

i never believed in scrapbooks too - too much of a hassle D: i use display folders but i have a random stack of piano music probably about 8cm thick.
as for orch scores, i file them neatly after the programme, probably 'cause i doubt i would ever practise them again unless being asked to do so

if i'm lazy to print out scores, using the com's good too!

[TrueTears]

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

heh ive never ever highlighted on any of my sheets hahaah

[the.watchman]

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

I'm not a believer of scrapbooks, too fiddly
Now I use my computer a lot as well, although scrolling is a nuisance

How can you use your computer to view the manuscript when you're playing any instrument... don't you use a stand?

I do, for sheet music
If you angle the stand down a bit, you can put a laptop on it
Or I use the desktop computer sometimes

Lol, I always used to use display books, but since my LMus, I've been lazy
Now I use loose sheets, and my practice room is covered with sheets of music, solo stuff here, orch stuff there...

Lots of people also stick their music on scrapbooks - easier to scribble/highlight on. By the time my exam came around, you could barely see any white on my Chopin piece - so much highlighting!!

heh ive never ever highlighted on any of my sheets hahaah

Neither, I don't see the point of it
Although at orchestra, I sometimes wish I had a highlighter...

[AzureBlue]

I do, for sheet music
If you angle the stand down a bit, you can put a laptop on it
Or I use the desktop computer sometimes

Neither, I don't see the point of it
Although at orchestra, I sometimes wish I had a highlighter...

LOL if you even try to put a laptop on my flimsy stand, it would most likely fall off, and the stand would probably fall from unbalance too.
Highlighters are good - they really catch your eye, and doesn't a piece covered with a plethora of all the colours of the rainbow make you want to practice it?