[quote Monkey2001]@orangecinnamon musical opportunities have been limited for everyone this year, normal will not apply. Has she done any singing exams? My DC did lots of music and were amused by how much easier singing was than anything else. DS1 did grade 8 violin and singing at the same time. Got a distinction for the singing for which he did almost zero practice and merit for violin after practicing an hour/day for 3 months. Piano and violin are the most work.
We are the other way round from you, DS2 did loads of music from the time he was 5 and will soon have 4 grade 8s, but he wishes he had done more rugby and did not consider music A level. We can't know what they will want when they are at primary school.
If she is looking at academic music, they will not be that bothered by music exams. If she is thinking about singing at conservatoire they charge you loads of money for auditions the tell you to come back when your vocal cords are more developed - they like singers to be in early 20s .[/quote]
Yes...she is a singer, hopefully doing grade 8 in June. The music thing kind of crept up on us ...we suddenly realised in year 9 how important music was to her. She has a natural ear her progression is quite funny really, she started off by auditioning in primary with a tin whistle and Ukulele, they let her in and lent her a flute. We bought her guitar and later a keyboard as birthday pressies...when she moved to secondary she begged for flute lessons as a late entrant there were non available so I booked her onto singing she had just been diagnosed with asthma thought it may help!
So the upshot is the only formal musical exams she has done are for singing and theory. The 'passion' for want of a better word is there..I never have to nag to prepare or practice, composes in spare time etc. I guess it is about how she can illustrate that in her personal statement.
Not considering conservatoire ...thank goodness.
Have you heard they may be reducing A level content ? .they talked about it for edexcel then there was some controversy and have not heard anything since !