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Kazuni wrote on 2010-07-07 06:29
I just got my exam result back from my grade 10 piano and I got 74. Friggin' 74, and I need 75 to take ARCT. Sure, I don't exactly go crazy for piano and practice 5 hours a day like one of my friends, but I thought I did pretty well at the exam.
Now, I get home at around 4:30 because I have to take the bus for an hour, provided that the bus arrives on time, and gets to the skytrain station without traffic. Then after I take the skytrain and walk home, basically I have to practice piano for at least an hour and a half. If you add dinner time, plus a break in between, and just stalling in general because 90 minutes of practice is really boring, that drags on to about 7~7:30. Then I have to do homework etc then sleep because I have to get up at 6:30 every morning.
My piano teacher is moving to the states permanently in a couple of weeks, and I thought that I might as well just screw it.
I could take the supplementary exam or whatever if I got 75+ on the repertoire section, but I don't know what I got because the exam sheet isn't scanned yet. But then you have to pay extra money and for one point? That's not even worth it.
If you're going to ask me whether I like piano, sure, it's relaxing sometimes, but it hogs up a lot of time and effort, and basically makes me cranky at the end of every school day because practice is looming over my head.
I've been playing piano since I was 4, so that's over 10 years now, and I'm not much of a quitter, but that mark just basically killed me over, and I don't really see the point anymore.
tl;dr, should I quit?
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MiniSoda wrote on 2010-07-07 06:44
I don't think you should quit, since you could use those skill to bring some money into your pocket. Play at a restaurant or something, iunno xD
Just keep practicing?
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-07-07 06:45
Easier said than done...
90 minutes a day...
And I have to go find a new teacher, too.
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Finnea wrote on 2010-07-07 06:51
A bad mark isn't the end of the world. Noone's perfect and I definitely must tell you not to quit. I do have a sob story if you care enough to hear it. You're at the level where they judge you way more strictly and it's not about playing the music, but rather it's about living it. Anyone can train well enough after 10 years to play what's on the page, but to really understand it is hard. I'd reccomend putting stories to songs to add little expressions, and reading up about the nature of the composers. What'd you play for your exam btw? curious.
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-07-07 06:54
Quote from Finnea;84211:
A bad mark isn't the end of the world. Noone's perfect and I definitely must tell you not to quit. I do have a sob story if you care enough to hear it. You're at the level where they judge you way more strictly and it's not about playing the music, but rather it's about living it. Anyone can train well enough after 10 years to play what's on the page, but to really understand it is hard. I'd reccomend putting stories to songs to add little expressions, and reading up about the nature of the composers. What'd you play for your exam btw? curious.
I played:
Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Ab+ (4 voice fugue, ick)
Haydn - Sonata something or other.. yeah I can't remember the hoboken # or whatever.
Grieg - Wedding Day in Troldhaugen
Debussy - Arabesque (no.2, I think)
Bartok - Rondo something something...
Studies : Serenade (Haberbier), Study in Ab+ (...someone)
Too lazy to turn around to check my binder...
And it's not just the bad mark. I've been considering quitting for some time now, but I thought I'd suck it up until the grade 10 exam, since I've been working on that for 2 years now... So I thought I'd decide then.
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Syrion wrote on 2010-07-07 06:55
i quit piano, and i wish i didnt. If you think you might regret quitting, then dont.
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-07-07 07:00
Quote from Syrion;84215:
i quit piano, and i wish i didnt. If you think you might regret quitting, then dont.
I'm don't really know at this point...
I mean, I'm not going to pursue a career in it or anything... I only learned piano because the music school back from when I was 4 said I was too young for violin. It's just something for school applications...
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Finnea wrote on 2010-07-07 07:00
Quote from Kazuni;84213:
I played:
Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Ab+ (4 voice fugue, ick)
Haydn - Sonata something or other.. yeah I can't remember the hoboken # or whatever.
Grieg - Wedding Day in Troldhaugen
Debussy - Arabesque (no.2, I think)
Bartok - Rondo something something...
Studies : Serenade (Haberbier), Study in Ab+ (...someone)
Too lazy to turn around to check my binder...
And it's not just the bad mark. I've been considering quitting for some time now, but I thought I'd suck it up until the grade 10 exam, since I've been working on that for 2 years now... So I thought I'd decide then.
O.o.. Baroque and Impressionism.. harsh. Ama always just plays Chopin, Ravel, and Debussy. Maybe some Bach but there isn't much expression to baroque music.
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-07-07 07:01
Quote from Finnea;84219:
O.o.. Baroque and Impressionism.. harsh. Ama always just plays Chopin, Ravel, and Debussy. Maybe some Bach but there isn't much expression to baroque music.
The Haydn sonata is 16 pages or so long.. and it's the one worth the most marks, and it's so simple it's impossible to put expression behind it.
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Finnea wrote on 2010-07-07 07:01
Quote from Kazuni;84218:
I'm don't really know at this point...
I mean, I'm not going to pursue a career in it or anything... I only learned piano because the music school back from when I was 4 said I was too young for violin. It's just something for school applications...
Excuse the double post. I was forced to start Piano//Cello when I was 4.
Baroque music is simple. Hard. Was that an assigned piece to be memorized an' such?
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-07-07 07:02
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Excuse the double post. I was forced to start Piano//Cello when I was 4.
Ya got ninja'd.
And my school wasn't that epic anyways...
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Finnea wrote on 2010-07-07 07:05
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Ya got ninja'd.
And my school wasn't that epic anyways...
Actually I was orginally just thrown into a room and told to "figure it out" started schooling at 5.
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Rose wrote on 2010-07-07 07:32
Guys dig piano players, So charming and coordinated¬
Keep it up, Yo!
~Crook
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MiniSoda wrote on 2010-07-07 07:37
@Crook, Kazuni is a girl o3o
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Rose wrote on 2010-07-07 08:33
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@Crook, Kazuni is a girl o3o
Les- Okay ill edit it.
~Crook