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Summer term 2019 music

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thirdfiddle · 01/04/2019 14:50

A new installment of the long running music parent threads. Everyone is welcome from complete beginners to grade 8 and beyond. Thanks as ever to the lovely waffle for starting the threads up and looking after them for years. What are your plans for the coming term? Any exams, auditions, festivals, new instruments? Please come and chat.

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SwayingInTime · 01/04/2019 15:43

We do have a slight problem of not being able to afford a full size cello for her so will be investigating loans etc over the next few months. We sent her to a audition class with a very successful teacher who let her play her cello so she has high standards now! I was thinking to approach benislow - does anyone have any experience?

cocopops · 01/04/2019 15:39

Hello. I don't post often (usually when there's a crisis!) but mum to DD, 15 who does piano, oboe and voice. She's just sat grade 6 singing exam and anxiously waiting on the results of that and of a JD audition she did last week for piano and oboe. Audition seemed to go well but I'm so conscious that its so very competitive, particularly for piano so am not holding out much hope. (but I'm the one feeling very anxious about it!) Results not expected until May :(

Grade 5 oboe is next in line in June. She's not ready for Grade 8 piano so that's likely to be November. Anyhoo, I want her to change singing teacher as she gets lessons at school and the teacher is always changing her lesson time. She is about to sit Nat 5's next year so I also no longer want her to miss lessons for other subjects for singing. I am getting a bit of resistance from her- watch this space!

SwayingInTime · 01/04/2019 15:33

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SwayingInTime · 01/04/2019 15:33

Thank you for starting a new thread, I'm a serial name changer who's not posted much since the trolls (I do think there's still one that pops up occasionally, if it sounds unlikely, it usually is!).

Your dd sounds very keen and sing orchestra sounds very cute! I am embarrassed to say that I've been largely put off pushing music to my little ones due to my eldest DD having it become pretty all encompassing but now I feel a bit guilty. They wouldn't even put in 10 mins accompanied and cajoled practise a day so I stopped their lessons but plan to start in September again with flute for the 11 year old if she likes and piano for the 8 year old.

My DD1 is a chorister and from September will be a specialist musician in the same school. As a non musician this thread has been absolutely invaluable and demystified so much for me.

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thirdfiddle · 01/04/2019 14:58

And just to introduce me and my minis:

DS is rising 10 and doesn't believe in practice much but enjoys a good play through whatever he's learning. He plays piano and horn and has recently done grade 2 on both.
DD is 7 and rather more enthusiastic, she plays violin and piano. She plays in a little string orchestra which she adores. She has done grade 1 on piano and working on Suzuki book 3 for violin where we're avoiding exams so far (hooray!).
I am a keen amateur violin/viola player, and hack at piano well enough to mostly manage kids' accompaniments so far.

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