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September Music and Musicians Thread

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Wafflenose · 02/09/2016 20:18

Hello to all musicians and parents of musicians, both old and new, beginners and advanced! Feel free to share whatever you like, and ask away about anything to do with music, exams, concerts, repertoire, practice, etc.

We are all heading back to school and work this coming Monday. My daughters Goo (10) and Rara (8) will be going into Year 6 and Year 4 respectively. Goo plays the recorder, flute and piano (just took up piano in April) and I have slapped a ban on exams for about a year - she has been doing too many. Rara plays the recorder and cello, and will be doing whole class brass lessons during Year 4. She's taking Grade 3 Recorder this term, and is about two-thirds of the way through the Grade 1 Theory book, doing it in her own sweet time and bloody annoying unique way. Goo's main project will be NCO and county auditions... not that she's busting a gut currently!

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Musicmom1 · 03/09/2016 08:15

Oh and starts JD this term so various auditions for seats in first few weeks which should be interesting given the age range.

Musicmom1 · 03/09/2016 08:13

Thank you Waffle; DD (10) plays clarinet and cello; big tasks this term are secondary school entrance exams and auditions, and NCO audition. G6 clarinet planned for spring, and cello g8 at some distant and happily undefined point!

TheSecondOfHerName · 02/09/2016 22:33

Thank you all for your support last term in getting an exhausted DD through her G3 flute. It turns out that she had an undiagnosed ear infection that required two rounds of antibiotics. She is not doing any flute exams this term, but now she has her G3, she can join the junior orchestra at school. She also had a couple of singing lessons over the summer (to increase confidence rather than to work towards exams).

DS2 will be doing Grade 5 theory in November and Grade 5 clarinet in December.