Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Just arrived home from piano exam. I so blew it lah! First I played scales. Some of it was major but I heard it as minor, some of it was minor and I heard as major. B flat major fingering went a bit off.Next was my pieces. Sad to say, all of them had some parts I played wrong.
A3: one of the bars notes all wrong
B3: one part I press the pedal at wrong time, stuck at some other bar
C1: some chord towards the end play wrong
All these mistakes were caused by shivering hands...
Sight-reading was quite easy. That I have some confidence.
Aural's kinda half half. The first bit was fine. Then the singing with accompaniment was the worse bit ever. From the start to the end was all wrong. Teacher calls me to sing the notes by name, but in this case it starts on "la" so I got confused and wasn't sure whether to sing "la" all the way or sing the note name. The tune wasn't right anyway so... makes no difference. I also wasn't sure whether the song was perfect or imperfect cadence. The questions part was also quite weird. What's the difference in texture between the loud and soft parts? Which period was the song written in? I HAVE NO IDEA!!
Overall, the exam sucked. Teacher calls me to pray that I pass. She says that I will still upgrade me to Grade 7 evern if I fail, then just take the Grade 6 exam again next March. Seriously seriously seriously pray that I can pass. It seems to be hanging on a fine thread now. The results are unknown. It is not even predictable what my results are.