Tuesday, September 22, 2009 /10:41 PM
It's finally over! Piano examination for Grade 5 Practical is finally over.... woot~
Practice in the morning was poor... I could hear all my mistakes and scales wasn't great too...
At that moment I felt all tensed up... that could be one of the reason...
Another thing should be the bad air around me... my dad was smoking upstairs and gosh it choked my windpipes and throat...
Took a rest after that, facebook and stuff... watched a few youtube videos... mostly classcial ones.
Had to at least get an idea what Baroque period, Classical period, Romantic period and Modern period music are like...
Made lunch for my Dad, Sister and myself >.<
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Okay here's my best detailed description on what had happened in the exam room...
It was super sound proof! It had two doors! Didn't expect that a small Art/Music school could do better than schools like RMC -_-''
The examiner was super nice ^^ in fact every piano examiner I had before are all nice.
I started with scales first, Major scales were good, screw up my D minor scale at first but had a second try... it went well...
2nd Minor scale was not great but passable, Chromatic scales was okay... and Arpeggios was slightly poor... gotten slightly nervous at that time because of the mistakes I made...
Told myself that everything would be alright... My last Eflat arpeggios went smoothly ^^
Next my pieces, Giga was acceptable ^^ I think I've shown what I had been practicing for months and I hope it was pleasant to the examiner's ears...
Shuman was better than what I've played 2 weeks ago... as for the pedal, I felt that it was clean all the way...
Lastly my Jazz piece, I believed that I had some bad timings at the same old spot... but it seems to be better when that part was played the second time...
Aural test was next...
The first singing part was like shit... okay not all that bad but I forgot the last few parts and my singing is the last thing on earth that you would wanna hear.... -_-
What was next? er... oh
The second singing test was the do, ray, mi, fa and so on....
The very first note was ray and I sang it as do -_-
I got to realize it only when I sang the third note...
It was just okay I guess.... The notes were all low... so it was a relief ^^
Clapping to the music was like my first singing test...
Lastly for the answering to the short piece that the examiner played was quite okay...
I'm not too sure whether my answers were correct but it was enough to get me a pass?
As for the last test, Sight-Seeing test, it was okay... I'm never fantastic in it but I manage to play all notes right with just a few mistakes but re-played it... and I think I manage to keep up with the crescendo and forte parts...
Overall, this examination is so much better than last year's one... Last year's grade was screwed up... BIG TIME... it was a rush... amazing my Aural test pulled my grades up... o_O the weird thing is that my aural test pulling up my grades...?
Went to Northpoint for awhile (Mum suggested)
I needed to get a dress for this Saturday, will be attending my uncle's wedding dinner...
Went to a few shops and tried on a few dresses...
The first dress had a very nice side view but the front was... er nvm
The second one was not really to my liking when it was on me.... but my mum and sis liked it.
The third was like hell... I looked like I was my mum's grandmother! 0_o
The fourth dress was pretty but it is like something I had never wear in my entire life...
It cute at the front and at the back it has bare-back low cutting.... and the material of the dress is fitting.... o_O
Totally something I wouldn't dare to wear a few years back...
Well there wasn't much of a choice though... my mum didn't want to buy it at first because it "skimpy to her" well not actually... because I'll be wearing a tube inside... I'm not that crazy...
The dress cost $39.95 only.... pretty good price ^^
It was from cotton-on (Had a bad time breathing there too)
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