May/ June Music and Musicians Thread

Huge well done to second's DD!
DD is looking to take her G5 theory in December and her Grade 6 at some point early next year, but I think her confidence will need work before then after her G5 exam

Second what a fantastic result for DD! I love a happy ending - well done to her!
Green so pleased to see you on here again - don't leave us.
Prada - wishing DD a rapid recovery and hope she is OK.
Two concerts for us tomorrow afternoon/evening. rather expensive but a good cause (local music hub).
Musicmom Cornet sounds like a great idea! You'll be in a band in no time!

Thanks all , music auditions depend upon passing the academic tests first, but yes 3/4 likely. A lot of work but some awards can last the full 7 yrs so worth it, not to mention she is keen to be a music scholar. Hopefully she'll pass the piano 18/19th

Second - well done to DD😀

Prada - are what a pity - hope I quick recovery! How many scho,airship udition S do you have planned? Think DD will be trying for three or four......dreading the theory papers! As has been no where near it since her theory exam.....

So am thinking cornet..?

TheSecondOfHerName: wow, many congrats.
Prada: oh dear, hope she is ok and can still have a little practice everyday the next two weeks

SuspendedinGaffa thank you for your wishes!

Thank you all! Now that she has grade 3 she is eligible to play in the junior orchestra at school, which is an added bonus.

DS2 wants to take his Grade 5 theory in November and his Grade 5 clarinet in December, so I may see some of you on the Autumn Term thread.

Well done second's DD. :)

So many of DS1's friends have some sporting injury or other! I fear (or am glad) that DS1 is like me and would run away from anything coming at us at any speed.

Grrrrr the dreaded PE and Games! Hope she's better by then, Prada.

Ps in other news.... PE injury here so miniprada's G5 piano moved back to 18/19 July.... Definitely getting cotton wool wraps for September and music audition term!!

Green - chin up, you'll be missed if you are not on here

Well done second's DD! Fabulous result

TheSecondOfHerName , this is great news-HUGE congratulation! She is a star And I do think a big deal :))

thesecond YES!!! Surely after that result you can now correct
low self-confidence

I'm back with an update about DD. (End of Year 7, developmental delay / mild learning difficulties, low self-confidence, did Grade 3 flute but we were fairly sure she'd failed it.)

She got a MERIT !!!!!!

Not a big deal for many musicians, but HUGE for her.

All, thank you for your kind word and your kind messages. I am still thinking, I dont want to create another Greenleave, its me and myself and my stories and I dont see a point why I have to change it for any reason.
I am annoyed with the lie ( about she hadnt recognised me before and unkind that secretly watching and in real life pretended that she didnt know about all this happening with my daughter's music work, the friendship is ended- I never take these decisions easy and I value my friends however at the sametime I feel like I have to distant from certain "not so much of a friend".
So everything mentioned here is 100% correct in real life, even so much more as I am not so much of a person on FB and only using it to update my children's miles stones mainly for distant friends and family back in my home country. I am very aware of the silent competition among us(friends coming from the same home country living in UK)in terms of who's doing better than anyone else with some people and I hate it and dont want to be part of it. I still want them to be my friends so manytimes I choose to ignore them, not comment on their posts and/or not share any "sensitive info which might trigger jealousy, comparison".

So I am still thinking as I know they will be now watching me on here enjoying my posts, knowing what is happening and ...know me in real life.

So what has been happening to us: my teacher told us that we need to work on aural/musicianship, so the last lesson and the summer lesson will be on the aural/musianship in general. We have a concert night this week. We also come back to piano usual lesson and now working on etudes, I was told this week is on number 1,2 and 5,6 on a book. Will have a look tonight at what book. We dont have any plan for next term for piano. Violin is now on a break until we have the result, hopefully might be in 1 week time as we took the test last week.

I'm FB friends with most of my colleagues. But they don't go on MN. They think we swear too much.

I'm mainly careful because I have a public facing job. IMO social media and professional life shouldn't mix at all unless you are using social media for professional purposes - which I don't. I have a strict "no colleagues" rule on FB and Twitter (and they would never find me anyway).

Thanks for the thoughts about lessons. I might get DD to ask her teacher if she can recommend a private teacher locally.

Misti I started to learn to play piano properly in my 40s having grown up watching my Dad. I then taught the DDs but got them a teacher for grade 5. If I had time and made myself practice my DD1 is capable of teaching me and takes great pleasure in getting her own back.

I get really frustrated because the DDs do find it much easier to pick up and retain new things but other than incentivising my practice I am not sure a teacher would help.

On the whole anonymity thing I have come to the conclusion that the more private you are the more people are inclined to make up their own things and "those that mind don't matter while those that matter don't mind". I do try not to be any more obnoxious online than I am in RL however .

I didn't get a teacher when I (re)started playing either, until the point when I couldn't make the music sound like how I wanted it to sound. Then I found a teacher. Now I can get some of the music to sound how I want it to sound. It makes me so happy.