Musically talented anyone?

[Blonde Logic]

I so admire people who can just sit down and play!! I used to be able to memorise but find my memory is not what it used to be!!

Learing to play the Cello is on my "must do before it's too late" list. You are very lucky to be so musically talented!

 

[KD]

You are very lucky to be so musically talented!

I'm not really that 'musically talented'. Musical...yes, but I found I loved teaching and 'fell' into teaching piano, then other instruments and music theory. I learnt on the job

I do have some fab students though. Very talented.....and some not quite so talented

 

[Kitteh]

i learnt by ear.. its weird.. but with my flute i can sight read perfectly.. but on the piano.. its a bit harder.. even though for my exams i had to do it.. i just had to.. "try".. lol.. never scored very well on it.. but play me a song.. and in five mins i could probs have figured it out..
I heart music..
x x x

 

[KD]

i learnt by ear.. its weird.. but with my flute i can sight read perfectly.. but on the piano.. its a bit harder.. even though for my exams i had to do it.. i just had to.. "try".. lol.. never scored very well on it..

The sight reading requirements for piano exams are awful. They're changing them next year thank goodness.

 

[Kitteh]

ooh really? how?
x x

 

[KD]

ooh really? how?
x x

They are going to be making them more 'attractive', so they actually sound like tunes

The lower grades will be shorter, and although grade 2 will have hands together (unlike now), it will stay in a 5 finger position :clap:

The pieces will have titles to help the student understand the style of the piece. I don't think they are necessarily going to be easier, just will have a better flow. Nothing too radical (it is the Assoc. Board after all), but just making the pieces more tuneful will help a lot.

They're changing the scale requirements next year too. Less staccato for grade 6. B minor being scraped at grade 2 and G minor being added :clap: Grade 2 having broken chords (which makes sense), but I'm hoping to goodness that they don't bring the Grade 3 broken chords down to the grade 2 requirements. It used to be the case, (grade 3 bchords were required at grade 2) and I was so pleased when they raised it to grade 3. The grade 1 ones are fine, but the current grade 3 ones were a nightmare to teach at grade 2.

 

[sparklyangel]

I play the oboe and classical guitar

 

[Taronga Leela]

Lots of moosical people on here!

I play electric, bass, acoustic and electroacoustic guitar (which I assure you are all very different )

I heart guitars!!

 

[Angela1]

Cello teacher me.

 

[GTPeach]

I'm a vocalist. 1st soprano to 2nd alto. My choir directors used to dread range tests with me because they'd run out of high notes on the keyboard well before I finished singing as high as I could go. Classically trained, and have learned other genres over time. Now, I can sing just about anything.

 

[Austineer]

I play the piano - but can't get mine into my third and fourth floor home :cry:so it's in my parents' music room for the foreseeable future. I miss my piano!

I used to play a few brass instruments - tenor horn, baritone and French horn but haven't been active with them for a couple of years.

 

[Angela1]

Quite a few cello players then.

 

[Shadaca]

I play anything flute shaped, and sax shaped - passable at piano but not so good.

Can anyone teach me how to play irish whistles? love the sound of the low d whistle.

 

[GTPeach]

I just bought a guitar - old, like from the 60s. And I've been teaching myself to play. I figure... I sing and I play piano by ear, so why not learn guitar. Flexible, useful, portable!

I can play a lot by ear, too. Like, the bagpipes. I just picked up my grandmother's pipes and started to play.

 

[spooky]

I learnt to play Tenor Horn in school from age 8. I kept it up till I left school. I was in the South Yorkshire Youth Brass band at one point my claim to fame LOL
Haven't touched a musical instrument in years but weirdly have been contemplating it!

 

[Anna_B]

I played the tuba & clarinet at school but never really learnt to read music, I just had a good memory so learnt more by trial, error & luck! I doubt I'd remember any of it now.

I heard a young man playing the piano earlier, wonderful! I'm very envious of his ability but lack the necessary commitment to ever be really good at any instrument myself.

 

[KD]

I heard a young man playing the piano earlier, wonderful!

Okay...got to fess up now. Can't let this pass. The young man was one of my piano students

So glad you enjoyed hearing him Anna. I'm so proud of him as I am all my lubberly students

 

[KD]

Of course, I know you knew that Anna, but just letting anyone else reading know

 

[Anna_B]

Of course, I know you knew that Anna, but just letting anyone else reading know

LOL

Do tell him I'm sorry I interrupted his lesson but it was an absolute pleasure to hear him play, wonderful!

 

[KD]

He didn't mind at all. I'll pass your message on anyway. He's a smashing kid. Taking Grade 8 in the spring . Was supposed to take it this summer, but it clashed with something else, and prefered the new syllabus. No rush...he's still relatively young to take G8 anyway