Music Practicals 2009

truedoom

hey guys and gals,

what are ye all playing for your practicals this year? also when are your practicals being held? hopefully your not as unlucky as i am, my practicals are on the same week as my french oral, and then my irish oral the week after it makes me sad.... but sure thats life.

I'm a guitarist, i will be playin 6 pieces:
(i have a bit of a running theme going: The evolution of Guitar! )

50's - Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (with my own jamming thrown in)
60's - Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
80's - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Blitzkrieg
80's - Yngwie J. malmsteen - Rising Force
80's/90's - Gary Moore - Out in the Fields
90's - Gary Moore still got the Blues

And there is an interchangeable song (which i might switch for a malmsteen piece)

90's - Eric Johnson - Cliffs Of Dover



So that is my easy songs (first two), My complex songs (Malmsteen and Johnson), and my blues songs (gary moore)

what are ye doin!?

Piste

Mine's on the 31st- very last day!


I'm singing 6 pieces:

Sei tu m'ami - Perlogesi
Gaiete and Orior- Michael Head
Think of Me- Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Phantom of the Opera
Oh Breathe Not His Name- Thomas Moore
The Fairy Tree- Vincent O'Brien
Seligheit- ????

-ME-

Mine's on 2nd April. I'm playing six pieces on the piano

Mongoose Crawl
Gymnopodie
Danny Boy
Bagatelle (Can't remember the full title)- Beethoven
Unchained Melody
Lorca's Last Walk

They're not ready though I have a music- filled month ahead..

sofa kingcool

how long have you been playing truedoom?

they are very technical pieces ..im doing songs similar to you

malmsteen for example!

GA361

Piano:
Mongoose crawl
We are the Champions
A Beethoven piece
A JS Bach piece. . . . BWV 999 or somethin

mardybumbum

Truedoom......Hmmmmm, that sounds like a youtuber I know!
You wouldnt happen to be a fellow castlebar guitarist by any chance? :pac:

truedoom

sofa kingcool wrote: »

how long have you been playing truedoom?

they are very technical pieces ..im doing songs similar to you

malmsteen for example!

amm i've been playin a little over 3 years. go malmsteen. what pieces are you playing?

mardybumbum wrote: »

Truedoom......Hmmmmm, that sounds like a youtuber I know!
You wouldnt happen to be a fellow castlebar guitarist by any chance? :pac:

howdy aaron :P hows the search for the black/white board goin? :P



theres another lad in my year playing mongoose crawl...must be a popular piano piece?

tootyflutty

Am going with the six aswell, no Sibelius for me :P Am the only one in my class though!
Mozart - Flute Concert in G major
Gossec - Tambourin
Trad - Lonesome Boatsman
Trad - Sailor's Hornpipe
Tim Rice - Can You feel the Love Tonight?
Handel - Some Sonata or other :P

Been practicing these stupid sight tests too. euch . .

mardybumbum

truedoom wrote: »

amm i've been playin a little over 3 years. go malmsteen. what pieces are you playing?




howdy aaron :P hows the search for the black/white board goin? :P

Ugh.....I gave up on the maths grinds. This medicine lark is taking up all my time!

Anyway, on a more serious note, If I was examining a student who could play those pieces I would be extremely impressed as I am learned in the ways of the guitar.
However, your examiner may not have a clue as to the skill involved in sweep picking, tapping, blah, blah, blah...........
He/she may feel like they have been ear raped after Yngwie. :eek:

How about a nice tune like this???
I have an excellent backing track for it!

Dante

Singing (badly);
The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Oasis - Wonderwall
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
I don't have a 4th yet and I have nothing prepared! Me is gonna fail!

truedoom

mardybumbum wrote: »

However, your examiner may not have a clue as to the skill involved in sweep picking, tapping, blah, blah, blah...........
He/she may feel like they have been ear raped after Yngwie. :eek:

How about a nice tune like this???
I have an excellent backing track for it!

haha i knew it would be black magic woman before i clicked on it. i heard good things about you when you played that for the leaving.

cheers anyways not really into santana tho.

about the yngwie ear rape, this is quite true, which is why i'll probably swap one for cliffs of dover :L a much nicer song to listen to!

xOxSinéadxOx

I don't really know yet

QUESTION:

would it be better to play just recorder or recorder and piano even though my piano wouldn't be perfect?

tootyflutty

They expect a lower standard if you play two instruments, and you could probably impress them more with piano and recorder. I'd go with both, tis less stress that way in my opinion.

xOxSinéadxOx

I'd say I'd definitely make mistakes in the piano whereas I can play the recorder perfectly. but I feel like a dunce playing just recorder :pac:

irishmonkey

4 pieces on Piano & Music tech

-Some Bach piece
-To a Wild Rose
-Schorzando
-September song

Also, anyone else doing syllibus/finale notepad?
I have one song, but as it happens, the other one is To a Wild Rose, but i cant do the same song twice =/
So... does someone want to send me a song

Niamh-17

To those doing Mongoose crawl, are you playing it once through or repeating it? When i play it it comes to about 50secs, which is fairly short for one piece?

mardybumbum

truedoom wrote: »

about the yngwie ear rape, this is quite true, which is why i'll probably swap one for cliffs of dover :L a much nicer song to listen to!

I have a backing track for that too on CD. Ill get it to ya as soon as I can!

GA361

Niamh-17 wrote: »

To those doing Mongoose crawl, are you playing it once through or repeating it? When i play it it comes to about 50secs, which is fairly short for one piece?

If you play whats written at the right pace it should come out at about1:10

LivingDeadGirl

Doing 4 violin duets with my violin teacher and the computer option

truedoom

mardybumbum wrote: »

I have a backing track for that too on CD. Ill get it to ya as soon as I can!

ooooh aactually that'd be sweet! cheers dude!