Music in a day?

stepheno

Hypothetically, what would be the best way to study music in a day if one had done no work for the whole year but has a good natural ability?

I'm hoping to just listen to the set works constantly, do about 10 of each composition question, and learn off about 5 Irish essays.

Thoughts?

porn_star

meh, i'm gonna learn it in a day aswell.
I haven't had time to look at it all year.
but I think it's possible
music is the easiest subject I think...or maybe thats just me...

L.W

i havent opened a book(or score)and havent really done anything all year and havent really got much natural ability so im rather fooked! im gonna be answer qs on the set works like ive never heard them b4!and now im on here with less than 20hrs to go so way hey i think im gonna be goin down from the mocks but thank god for that 50% we've already done!

Rockerette

theres not much point in just listening to the works.. we all know why they sound like by now, regardless of ones "natural ability.."

just look at the main points for each section, use the score when youre listening (assuming you have your score marked up with notes..) and look at past questions i'd say



if you cant do a decent harmony or melody question by now i'd say youre bolloxed, so hopefully we're all grand for that..!

and irish music, i dunno.. make sure you know your jigs from your reels
and a few topics for the written bit of course








it cant go worse than the mocks for me really... *has recollections of getting about 7/25 marks on Tchaikovsky...* hehe.
and something like 55% in my composing, but thats cos my teacher is a spa... and deducted 1/2 marks on my melody straight away for a stupid reason.. and even though my harmony had nothing wrong with it that she could point out, she still deducted 10 marks.
gob****e.

sorry. i have issues with her

Particle-Boy

Rockerette wrote:

theres not much point in just listening to the works.. we all know why they sound like by now, regardless of ones "natural ability.."

just look at the main points for each section, use the score when youre listening (assuming you have your score marked up with notes..) and look at past questions i'd say



if you cant do a decent harmony or melody question by now i'd say youre bolloxed, so hopefully we're all grand for that..!

and irish music, i dunno.. make sure you know your jigs from your reels
and a few topics for the written bit of course







it cant go worse than the mocks for me really... *has recollections of getting about 7/25 marks on Tchaikovsky...* hehe.
and something like 55% in my composing, but thats cos my teacher is a spa... and deducted 1/2 marks on my melody straight away for a stupid reason.. and even though my harmony had nothing wrong with it that she could point out, she still deducted 10 marks.
gob****e.

sorry. i have issues with her

Ack. Don't me started on the composition. It's all a matter of luck for me on that paper. Sometimes if I'm having a good day then I fly it and I produce a nifty piece of music.. other times I make severe ****ups. Like in the mocks I forgot about the modulation and my teacher (for some reason) came up to me in the middle of the exam and pointed it out!! That was scary...and it had better not happen again.

You modulate to the dominant, right? So if it was say.. in C major (I wish!) then at the 7th bar you would go from...f to g in the next bar...?

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Particle-Boy wrote:

You modulate to the dominant, right? So if it was say.. in C major (I wish!) then at the 7th bar you would go from...f to g in the next bar...?

in bar 7 you go from a #4 to a 5 in bar 8, then i usually go back to a natural 4.



You'll have no problem learning music in a day its a piece of piss, even if you dont do well in the set works you still get half the answers on the page. You can get quite a good mark as long as your practical was ok. you'll be fine:D
Speaking of which i should probably go start studying for this now ...

Particle-Boy

blah blah blah wrote:

in bar 7 you go from a #4 to a 5 in bar 8, then i usually go back to a natural 4.



You'll have no problem learning music in a day its a piece of piss, even if you dont do well in the set works you still get half the answers on the page. You can get quite a good mark as long as your practical was ok. you'll be fine:D
Speaking of which i should probably go start studying for this now ...

Mmm. I have a new-found love for Tchaikovsky. Pity it hadn't popped up this time last year. I've always loved the Bach though. And Queen goes without saying...
I never took a liking to Barry though. Work of musical "genius" as it may be... I still find it painful to listen to... I just hope to god that doesn't come up as the main work. Ironically I did best in that question during my mock... Which was.. odd.

And all I can do is hope for the best in the Irish Listening. As long as I remember "Chewing-gum chewing-gum chewing-gum" for the Jig rhythm. Or is it the Reel... bugger...

Rockerette

twould be the jig..



black & decker for the reels for me.. hehe

Pez

got a question lol
u know in minor melodys, wen u using the solfa. in a minor isnt doh really lah? as in doh in the major is lah in the minor? and do you have to use the solfa of the major key or the minor key? or does it matter?

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you were right the first time


lah ti doh re me fi si la (thats the way up on the melodic)

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Particle-Boy wrote:

I never took a liking to Barry though. Work of musical "genius" as it may be... I still find it painful to listen to... I just hope to god that doesn't come up as the main work. Ironically I did best in that question during my mock... Which was.. odd.QUOTE]

i went to a revision course for music a while back and to fill up space in the barry section they decided to tell us this little ditty :

"Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 G maj Mov 3 Allegro

(this recording was made in 1968 and was one of the first recordings using the Moog Synthesiser. Walter Carlos, the performer on this recording, saw the exciting possibilities for recording polyphonic textures using multi-track technology. Walter is now Wendy following a gender change)

Particle-Boy

blah blah blah wrote:

Particle-Boy wrote:

I never took a liking to Barry though. Work of musical "genius" as it may be... I still find it painful to listen to... I just hope to god that doesn't come up as the main work. Ironically I did best in that question during my mock... Which was.. odd.QUOTE]

i went to a revision course for music a while back and to fill up space in the barry section they decided to tell us this little ditty :

"Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 G maj Mov 3 Allegro

(this recording was made in 1968 and was one of the first recordings using the Moog Synthesiser. Walter Carlos, the performer on this recording, saw the exciting possibilities for recording polyphonic textures using multi-track technology. Walter is now Wendy following a gender change)

Holy cow!! I was at that exact revision course! Were you at the one in LIT here in Limerick..???
I remember reading that and I was like.. wtf...? Hahaha .. it was so random and irrelevant! Although, in the world of Barry and co I guess anything is possible...

Pez

blah blah blah wrote:

you were right the first time


lah ti doh re me fi si la (thats the way up on the melodic)

thanks:D

jimi_t

Simple bits and pieces for identifying irish music forms

Reel - 2/4 - You should kinda know this by now !

Hornpipe - 4/4 - REPEATED NOTES @ END OF BAR i.e. - didily-dee da-da Think of someone dancing a hornpipe and kicking out twice or stamping their feet twice.

Jig - 6/8 - If you can say "rashers and sausages" with it, it's a jig

Slip Jig - 9/8 - If it's complicated and you haven't a clue whats going on it's probably this.

Waltz - 6/8 - Very slow Jig. Will sound germanic, prolly melodeon thrown in there

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Particle-Boy wrote:

blah blah blah wrote:

Holy cow!! I was at that exact revision course! Were you at the one in LIT here in Limerick..???
I remember reading that and I was like.. wtf...? Hahaha .. it was so random and irrelevant! Although, in the world of Barry and co I guess anything is possible...

nope i was at the dublin one...it was....actually i only stayed for the first half of both days. I spent the rest of it bumming around town with my boyfriend :rolleyes:

exiot

Particle-Boy wrote:

blah blah blah wrote:

Holy cow!! I was at that exact revision course! Were you at the one in LIT here in Limerick..???
I remember reading that and I was like.. wtf...? Hahaha .. it was so random and irrelevant! Although, in the world of Barry and co I guess anything is possible...

I was at the one in LIT, what a waste of time. I didnt even bother going to the second one, the women at the first one seemed as if they didnt know what they were talking about half the time..

Ballerina

blah blah blah wrote:

"Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 G maj Mov 3 Allegro

(this recording was made in 1968 and was one of the first recordings using the Moog Synthesiser. Walter Carlos, the performer on this recording, saw the exciting possibilities for recording polyphonic textures using multi-track technology. Walter is now Wendy following a gender change)

whats that even got to do with barry though??!!!

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i have NO idea!!!!!

Particle-Boy

exiot wrote:

Particle-Boy wrote:

I was at the one in LIT, what a waste of time. I didnt even bother going to the second one, the women at the first one seemed as if they didnt know what they were talking about half the time..

Yeah! She want all crazy when she was talking about the Queen one. I couldn't stop laughin!!