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totaled:
Um I've noticed too your aural skills have to be top notch, I've seen a lot of very very good piano players get full marks in their recital, and only getting 43-45. I'm not sure how they went in their written/aural, but be aware that the piano bit is only 50% of it, and spread of marking for the top students may not be very high

BubbleWrapMan:

--- Quote from: ninwa on February 11, 2011, 04:03:35 am ---Yeah, what I meant was to choose pieces for how well you play them, not for their difficulty. That's the mistake I've seen a lot of people (and teachers!) make. Obviously if you can play hard pieces well then choose them!

I hear Auralia is pretty good.

Haha, I had 3 people in my music class... :( I'm lucky they even chose to run it that year.

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Hm yeah I'll think about that. Once I get a feel for my pieces I should know whether I can pull them off.

What score did you get out of curiosity?


--- Quote from: totaled on February 11, 2011, 07:57:38 am ---Um I've noticed too your aural skills have to be top notch, I've seen a lot of very very good piano players get full marks in their recital, and only getting 43-45. I'm not sure how they went in their written/aural, but be aware that the piano bit is only 50% of it, and spread of marking for the top students may not be very high

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Will work on it for sure. I'm decent at it, can work from there.

ninwa:
Advice: choose some easier backup pieces in case the harder ones don't work out. You DON'T wanna get to 2 weeks before your performance exam and realise that you're going to have to speed-learn a new piece because the old one didn't work out.

Do you have perfect pitch?

I did get 50, but it was back in 2005 (I'm not that old!!! I just did music early!!!!), so can't help you out much with specifics regarding the syllabus because I think it's changed like, twice since then :P

ninwa:
Perfect pitch is pretty much how to cheat your way through the listening part of the exam. But that doesn't mean it is necessary to get a good score. Sounds like your friend got cocky and didn't work hard enough at the theory...

Also, the performance exam (like any performance) is at least 20% luck.

BubbleWrapMan:

--- Quote from: ninwa on February 11, 2011, 11:25:48 pm ---Advice: choose some easier backup pieces in case the harder ones don't work out. You DON'T wanna get to 2 weeks before your performance exam and realise that you're going to have to speed-learn a new piece because the old one didn't work out.
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I'll be able to work it out pretty soon, as in the next month, I don't expect to change 2 weeks prior.


--- Quote ---Do you have perfect pitch?
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I wish. :P I'm fairly good at interval recognition, which I guess is enough, if I refine it.


--- Quote ---I did get 50, but it was back in 2005 (I'm not that old!!! I just did music early!!!!), so can't help you out much with specifics regarding the syllabus because I think it's changed like, twice since then :P

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Hasn't really changed that much, a 50 is a 50. What was your SAC ranking like?

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