Jul
09
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On This Day
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Piano
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Piano Exam
...that I should take time in reading a Joseph Heller book. Although I have only read one book of his so far. Anyway, I still think I should take my own sweet time reading "Something Happened".
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Finally attended piano class officially at the new place my music school moved to.
Okay whoa... that's so looong ago. I kind of took a break from that music school later (it's in 2013 that my teacher wanted to stop teaching at that school). Then I started going to my teacher's house for piano lessons until end of 2018 [2021-07-11 edit: I totally forgot that by the end, it was the other way round where she went to my house to teach]. Around the time I quit my job, she also stopped teaching piano (for good this time) - ah.. I think that kind of added a bit to making my 2019 year more depressing.
... anyway, on the next class, I'm going to start on Grade 4's music theory... and maybe start playing Grade 6's pieces...? Ah, but the new editions of exam pieces haven't arrived (I think.. forgot to check the books section :P)... and.... *hopefully I'll pass my G5 exam!*
This is a really good post to revisit because there are so many things to update.
- I took the ABRSM music theory exam for Grade 5 in 2014 and passed with distinction (barely).
- Last practical exam I did was for G7 and it didn't went well. But I passed barely with a score of 100. I was so sure that I would fail.
- I was still struggling with G8 pieces when my teacher retired from teaching (she didn't use that term but I think that's the best term to describe it now). She was hoping that I'll return to the music school but since I was in an "unstable" state in 2019, I didn't do anything about that.
- Regarding piano practice... I've been slacking off 2019-present... Tried playing more recently but it's kind of hard when you have family members doing work from home. So there's that. (But surely, if I want something, I would do anything to get it so... I'm not blameless in that aspect).
- Neighbours will have to bear with my clunky clearly-out-of-practice (lol) piano playing temporarily until I get my - that thing - back. (My muse? My groove?)
- In the very far future, I want to learn more about composing, transcribing to piano and maybe learn to play jazz?
Must spend my day tomorrow mastering all those scales and arpeggios
If you know me as well as my ex-piano teacher, you'll know that scales are among my weaknesses haha. But lately, since I dread piano practice, I thought it might be a good idea to just play these scales and anything related as piano practice. Like I don't need to play any pieces or modern songs, just do the technical stuff.
I haven't started doing that yet but might be good to do it now that I've mentioned it here...
