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Passive aggressive dominant sevenths

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Korg · 07/05/2018 18:00

Dc has grade 8 at the end of term. I reminded him that other candidates will be practising a couple of hours a day so ten minutes wouldn’t kill him.

He has now played the same scale 50 times. 🙄 waiting for maturity to kick in...

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Kutik73 · 08/05/2018 10:15

It's impressive he manages the amount of practice daily at secondary age (or am I being overly scared by the forthcoming school workload?? Grin). He is doing amazing, Trumpet. I think the journey to and from school is actually quite important. DS will prob spend 40-50 mins one way from September. If we lived 10-15 mins away from the school, he could practice half an hour or so in the morning (2nd study maybe?), then another half hour after school (1st study scales/skills) then he still has time for working on 1st study pieces and dealing with heavy homework and digital pleasure.

Trumpetboysmum · 08/05/2018 08:12

Ds is having to try and fit in that much at the minute and it's a nightmare . I find making as few comments/ suggestions as possible best otherwise it can often end in a big row . Difficult when you know your suggestions might actually help though . Ds is doing grade 8 next year I think - I am dreading having to be a scales nag Grin

Kutik73 · 07/05/2018 21:33

ONE scale x 50 times at one go? How long did it take for him to do that? That's seriously amazing. Envy When you have school/clubs/journey/homework, it wold be very hard to secure a couple of hours daily for most people...

DS has g8 next month. Let's hope ours do their best. Good luck!

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Korg · 07/05/2018 19:37

Yep, then he followed it up with Hot Cross Buns: a lesser known part of the Grade 8 repertoire. On the plus side, as you say, he really knows that scale now Smile

Perhaps it’s just too hot outside and I should back off and let him practice as little or as much as he wants, and experience the consequences of his decisions...

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Wellthatsit · 07/05/2018 18:24

Hahaha. Not a bad thing to practice a scale over and over!