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Leaving cert music

  • 27-09-2003 9:37pm
    #1
    Mutant_Fruit
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    I am sitting my leaving cert next june, and am taking music as a subject. I took up guitar back in transition year (about 2 years ago). I'm now being told i really should be graded when i go into my leaving cert, and i should be at least grade 6 standard.

    So now i'm taking a grade 6 exam, probably in early march/late february. The problem is i can't read classical guitar sheet music.

    I know how to read the stave, as i played piano for a few years. However beside each note there is a number. This i can;t fully figure out what it means.

    So far i've decided it can either mean the finger i'm supposed to use (very doubtful) or its referring to the octave of the note i'm supposed to play. e.g. an "A" note with a 3 beside it means i play the 3rd occurance of A on the guitars neck. BUT, this makes no sense, as the numbers that appear are between 0 and 4.

    Could anyone help me with this? I've posted a fuzzy picture of what i mean.

    The first 3 numbers (going from top to bottem are 2 3 1.


Comments

  • #2
    PrecariousNuts
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    Tried playing the pic you attached and I must say those fingerings are extremely arkward. Looking at the sharps though what lines are they on, I can't tell from the pic.


  • #3
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    the sharps are on the two spaces, c and e.


  • #4
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    looks to me like fingering directions. you don't necessarily HAVE to obey they; they're just what whoever arranged the piece recommended.

    And a word on leaving Cert music: EASY!

    any pieces yu play should be grade 5 standard (I played 4 grade 5 at mine and got an a2 in performance)

    How many instruments are you playing? the rules are that if you're playing 1 instrument then you've to play 6 pieces, But if you're playing 2 instruments than you have to play 4 pieces on each..


  • #5
    alfonso*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭alfonso*


    just a copy/paste job from my post on the instruments forums:



    as far as our music teacher told us grades arent essential

    tho i find having done upto grade 6 that it makes the course alot easier

    this isnt really an ideal time to start learning to read music if you got your practical in a few months and the work in other subjects gonna start piling in so if i where you id just ask your guitar teacher or a friend to tab out a suitable piece and possibly record it so you could imitate it


    personally i dunno what pieces to do as we where told we would only get 12 mins even if we did 8 pieces which seems crazy.my plan was to do 4 classical and 4 electric pieces tho im not so sure on what electric pieces as stairway = 8 mins so possibly black dog or all along the watchtower

    any ideas towards this would be appreciated


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