Music Scholarship - any ideas?

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Hello,

My daughter is applying for a music scholarship, but she has been without a music teacher for four months! It isn't as mad as it sounds, as she has reached a grade 5 standard and the school only requires grade 3/4 to apply. We spoke to the school and explained the situation and they said they would still be keen to hear her play... She is practising his pieces, although not to music (can she play without a pianist because she won't have practised it?!), but I have no idea how she can do the other parts as I am not musical at all - it says aural tests (rhythmic responses, vocal pitching, keyboard harmony tasks and note recognition) and questions on music such as on style, genre, composer and performance directions and questions of interpretation. Has anyone got any suggestions on how I can help her prepare? Any help would be gratefully received - we would pay for music lessons online if we could if you have any recommendations - as we can't get any slots locally as they are full (and we are going to start lessons again at the new school)...

For piano accompaniment practice, you may be able to find the accompaniment published by someone on YouTube or can buy a recording online.

Lots of apps (eg ABRSM aural trainer) for aural and websites for theory, or ABRSM theory books. Probably work at Grade 5 standard.

Good luck

Perhaps see if ABRSM can help. Look at their online shop, lots of useful books or try searching for cheap but helpful music books on Amazon. Alternatively you can go to a local music shop and ask to see the theory of music books available.

There is a useful site called mymusictheory.com which I wholly and heartily recommend as a additional resource. Great useful online resource for those taking music theory exams. See if you can even find a few high quality music theory books in your local library or bookshop in addition.

Try E-Aural Trainer and Music Matters on YouTube for the aural stuff.

Where are you applying? Do you know the style of the listening? In our experience they were nothing like ABRSM ...

YOu could probably get an accompanist to record the accompaniment so that she could practise with it, even if it's a different person doing it on the day.

An online teacher would probably be able to help with the questions on aural and genre etc - there are various online theory courses and you could probably ask those teachers if they'd do something more individual like that. it can all be done via Zoom

Piano backing tracks for pieces in music exams (ABRSM, Trinity etc) for rehearsal purposes at

youronlinepianist.co.uk

I can’t see which instrument you are talking about, but my son’s music teacher teaches over zoom as well as in person. You may well be able to find someone who can do this. OH DS has never had an in-person lesson, and yet has made fantastic progress in his six months of virtual lessons. A music teacher should have a very good idea of how to help prepare for the audition too.

When is the audition/interview?

Thank you everyone! It's for violin/viola and will be second week on Jan - will try or the online resources you've mentioned. If anyone has any recommendations for online teachers with spaces I would love to know -I've emailed a few and they are all full!

There is a free app for the ABRSM aural tests, you can buy the sight reading book from Amazon, is this for year 7 entry or 9? for year 7 I would go through her favourite violinists, make some brief notes, if its year 9 then she may be expected to know more. If she only has one instrument she might have to sing a song, this can be anything so keep it simple and practise whenever she can, we did in the car on the way to school :-) as for being accompanied if you buy the piano part they will be able to accompany her but practise in advance with the digital download from ABRSM's website. My DD was offered music to two schools recently for violin of course it might be different for different schools but feel free to pm me if there is anything I might be able to help answer.