Q. Is anyone doing their grade 8 piano this year? if so, what pieces are you playing? have you learnt all the scales yet? are your pieces bad/good/excellent? how is your aural?
i'm sooooooooo scared =S x
A. I did it last winter, I did pretty well. My pieces were: sonata in D minor by cimarosa, Sonata in E by beethoven, and Prelude in C sharp minor by Chopin, I got 29/30, 28/30, and 30/30 for my pieces. Aural was terrible, I guessed my chords, but others were great, I ended up with 14/18. Scales- knowing them weren't a concern, I was able to play them fluently. I had a few slips in my arpeggios and that was it, 19/21. Sight-reading was extremely easy (in my opinion) i got 20/21.. I don't know where he took off the one mark.. maybe my dynamics were a little off. So I wound up with 140/150.
You really shouldn't be scared, I thought I was going to get just a pass until I knew my result. Don't sound too confident in your aural answers-they hate that! Try to be conservative. When you know that you don't know, don't guess-- say you don't know, they take off less marks (my teacher was a chief examiner)
Good luck on your exam!
rate these piano songs, easiest to hardest?
Q. La Campanella, Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement, Winter wind Etude, revolutionary etude, fantasie impromptu, rachmaninoff g-minor prelude
A. Ascending difficulty
Fantasie Impromptu, easily played by a Grade 7-8 student
Moonlight 3 - As above, but a little more difficult because of the length
Revolutionary - This is a huge step up from the last two, in my eyes
G Minor Prelude, this is just a monster, with huge jumps into huge chords
Winter Wind, it hurts to even think about playing this.
La Campanella contains double octave jumps extremely fast runs and requires an extremely soft touch to be played well, and the difficulty in this piece, I think, is the temptation to play this too fast.
Where can I look for piano pieces on the i-net, and guaranteed a reliable source?
Q. Well you know there are guitar chords of different songs online. Guitar tabs blahblah blah. Its easy to translate that to piano since i can play all 4 stringed and 6 stringed instruments plus the piano. But piano piece books are like too flooding and it makes me drowzy. I usually get them photocopied and enlarged. But of course i look for more songs, and i have never seen a piano piece available just how the ultimateguitartabs.com provides for tabs and chords. Oh come on, yeah i could translate em, but looking for "winter sonata" is a hard job, I swear i have never seen one online. PLEASE HELP ME
FYI I DONT NEED MUSIC TUTORIALS SO YOU DONT HAVE TO TELL ME GO TO THIS AND GET AN ONLINE MUSIC TUTORIAL. I MUST SAY I AM NOT A VIRTUOSO BUT I PLAY GOOD ON BUNCHES OF INSTRUMENTS.
All i need are some interesting pieces. fur elise and winter sonata, symphony 9, 10, and 14 [beethoven]... and some more random ones that sound tragic but dramatic. Piano piece books ARE EXPENSIVE, i bought like 3 of them but i'm not satisfied with the songs.
A. If you don't want to go the midi way try these
http://allpianoscores.com/
http://www.chopinmusic.net/en/home/
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/piece-list.html
http://kylesproject.com/bindex.php
http://www.icking-music-archive.org/index.php
http://classicaland.com/
http://sharemusicsheet.blogspot.com/2008/04/jazz-blues-swing-free-dowload-music.html
http://www.freesheetmusicguide.com/classical.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Sheet_Music_Project
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