Lifeslittleadventuretomars: Grade 5. Just over half way.

If anyone has spoken to me recently or seen my tweets about nerves before The week started it was because of an exam i have ever half a year, only because of things going wrong i hadn't had one for a year.

Singing Exams.

Some might say "yeah i bet that's a piece of piss. All you do is sing songs don't you, that's easy? even i could do that" In fact people have said that to me. No its not just that.

1. Firstly yeah you do have to sings songs, but the amount of songs changes as you go up grades, you also must be able to sing well :)...With your songs you ave show a variety you cant have just all slow ballad ones, you also need an up tempo one, same as you cant have all up tempo. You need to show variation in your voice. for example one song might show your low range and another your high range. How you change the volume of your voice, they like it when you show variation in your voice one bit might be really loud and the other quite quiet. You also as you get higher grades starting id say grade 3 you have show improvisation within a song... you may have a long intro or a long instrumental, they like it when you hmm or oh something in tune anything that fits with that song.

2. Secondly You have to do some theory based part, this means you look a lot at repeat markings on sheet music, which get progressively harder as it goes on. You have to know the time signatures. You also have to know the Clefs obviously Clefs being a Treble Clef and a Bass Clef. You have to know all the correct names for everything, like Semi Quavers. Crotchets. Bars. etc. You also have to know about all the minors and majors and what key it would be in if it had a certain amount of flats or sharps :)

3. Thirdly you have to a lot of aural tests. For example Scales, Arpeggios, Arpeggios with the 5th sustained. Keeping in time with the song, identifying the time signature. La'ing a tune back to him, Singing different intervals. and more.

So for anyone that have said things like "I'm guessing that would be easy" id like to see you try to do all that, plus learn the songs and moves, and be in a room with just an examiner and you where all the day is stare. no smiling, no indication whether you got it right or wrong.

Whilst this is all going on to, try having to learn song learn dances learn monologues learn scenes write essays write log books record log books go to rehearsals and put on show.

You'd crack even i did and I've been doing all this for ages now. Everybody gets used to it in the end.

Any who.

Sunday 27th November 2011 -

I Had my grade singing exam, wow scary stuff. The man was nice really nice actually and my songs went really well but i kind of flopped on theory and did a few wrong from my aural tests.

Here are the songs i sung from my test.

Hope you Enjoy