Music Practicals.

yourpetzombie

So, what will you be doing for the practicals?
I'm doing two group singing, and two solo. We're working on a bunch of songs for the group, and I'm thinking of doing 'An Mhaighdean Mhara' by myself. I can't decide what else to do though, maybe 'Labhair an Teanga Gaeilge Liom'. Suggestions are appreciated! I have a pretty high voice.

I just know someone in my class will sing 'Hopelessly Devoted To You'. Badly. The mortifying shame of it all.

WexCan

Labhair and Teanga Gaeilge Liom? That means I speak Irish, no? There's a song called I speak Irish?!

How confident are you with your voice? There's loadsa songs out there...

PurpleFistMixer

It means Speak Irish to Me, as far as I know.

WexCan

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

It means Speak Irish to Me, as far as I know.

Ah righty

madbabe(",)

i'm doing 2 solo songs-the rose,Eva Cassidys version of fields of gold or torn and i'm doing 2 piano pieces! I'm also helping my friend out in a group singing!

lilmissprincess

I'm doing "Hallelujah" ( Jeff Buckley) and "Don't Speak" ( No doubt), and a polka and "Scherzino" on reorder. I love the Rose, its my song for every talent show type thing....

madbabe(",)

Is hallelujah the "an from your lips he drew the hallelujah" song? I love that song!

WexCan

I heard there was a secret chord... la la la. Nice song.

lilmissprincess

Yep thats it. The girl whos playing it on guitar with me never brings in her guitar to practice though, so I dunno...I may be better doing the guitar myself and letting her mime along ( nearly got it off by heart!)

singingstranger

Folks, just as a word of comfort - they're honestly not worth being all that worried about, and I hope that none of you guys are getting unduly stressed about it. They don't expect an amazing standard and frankly you get a better result playing something simple well, rather than taking on something really challenging and doing an OK job. And while I can't remember if you guys still have to declare what you're performing, it's really not an issue to change it at a few seconds notice.

Long story short, take deep breaths, don't try to be too flashy and you'll do great!

- LC student 2004, A1 in Music

yourpetzombie

We've decided on 'Ndi Jesu Chete' (five part) and 'I'll Fly Away' (three part) for the group songs. So far they sound great. Our music teacher is brilliant though.

singingstranger - My sister told me the same thing. Great minds think alike?

One of the girls wants to do a song from Les Miserables - can't remember which one - she's a good singer, but I don't see the point in stressing yourself out trying to perfect a difficult song and then not do as well. Silly billes...

lilmissprincess

By any chance is it Castle on A cloud?? Wanted to do it, but its not a guitar song and my solo is already taken by recorder. Dagnammit...

sweetie candy

<An Mhaighdean Mhara> is a really good choice~~~

may be <dancing queen> or < fields of gold> -.- let me think....

tell u wot , watch "American idol" ITV 1,or 2 , 8:30 friday

, u mingt find sum good songs inside that~

i m doin 2 on keyboard and 2 on tin whistle

i m also involved in group singing as well~:)

philologos

I did vocals for my JC last year, 4 solo songs mixture of Frank Sinatra and other things. The examiners that came to my school were really nice and they will be interested in what you can do, theres no need to worry that much

lilmissprincess

What Sinatra did you do??? My teacher got me to practice all my pieces at lunchtime, since I had no exam in the afternoon...yeesh I never want to hear about sticato on recorder again!!!!! I had to sing the duets with no accompaniment on myh own since the other girl legged it home...

Piste

I think I'm doing

On piano:
Prelude no1 (accompaniment to Ave Maria) by Bach
Cha-Cha by Siegfried Merath

Singing:
I still havent made a *final* decision, which has meant so practising >.< but I'm thinking "wishing you were somehow here again" from Phantom of the Opera and "Arms of the angel" by Sarah mcLachlan or maybe Panis Angelicus.

lilmissprincess

Panis Angelus????? Thats in the book yeah? Urgh...
Me and the guitar girl changed our songs so many times the teacher threatened to murder us with a recorder....

Victor

lilmissprincess wrote:

Panis Angelus????? Thats in the book yeah? Urgh...
Me and the guitar girl changed our songs so many times the teacher threatened to murder us with a recorder....

Do you mean "Panus Angelicus" - my niece (then 7) once did that at a talent competition in the Canaries. It went completely over everyone's heads.

marshmallow

I'm doing 4 pieces on the piano.

No.6 from Six Little Preludes by Bach
Sonatina in F major by Beethoven
A Puzzle by Kargonov
By A River by Michael Holohan

The first 3 were grade pieces for the academy so I'd say a lot of people know them.

marshmallow

Has everyone got their dates for the practical?

Mine is the 4th of April. Can't wait 'til it's over! I prolly wont have nerves on the day because I'm used to performing on piano but it will be such a load off!

carpothepunk

Mines monday:eek:

Didnt.

Realise.

It.

Was.

That.

Close.

philologos

hmm usually happen in April but not this year apparently

marshmallow

carpothepunk wrote:

Mines monday:eek:

Didnt.

Realise.

It.

Was.

That.

Close.

Ouch, that sucks! You're on the first day!

philologos

the examiners are usually nice enough tho

yourpetzombie

Mines on Monday. Argh argh argh.
Argh.

I'm doing Heart Of Glass and All I Want Is You solo, and Ndi Jesu and I'll Fly Away group. I'm in seconds so I have to sing with five different groups and then switch to firsts for one round of Ndi Jesu. Bit blahhy but I'll survive.

Léan

I'm screwed. I've somehow ended up doing five accompaniment, and am still deciding on my two solo.
Oh joy.

carpothepunk

Im playing 16 songs altogether...im playing for everyone in my class...everyone:(

yourpetzombie

carpothepunk wrote:

Im playing 16 songs altogether...im playing for everyone in my class...everyone:(

You poor child!

Piste

I don't know when my practical is but I STILL don't have songs practised >.<

lilmissprincess

Ours is Thursday...eek....I seriously hop I don't catch the virusy crap going around, I won't be able to sing and I will fail...one girl is playing recorder for all four, but she has to get a med. cert cos she dislocated her two fingers...hehe...otherwise she'd have to play Mary had a little lamb or something equally as unchallenging..

yourpetzombie

Mine was today and I forgot my words for both of the solo songs. Argh! But I didn't stop, I just kinda filled in the blank spots with lines from other verses. It was grand overall though. The examiner was a dote though.

lilmissprincess

Mine was today!!!!!!! I screwed up with recorder a litle bit, but the songs went really really well!! Yer woman was nearly clapping...
Some of the girls cried cos they were so nervous, which didn't help my nerves either..I drank so much water in twenty minutes its not funny..

Piste

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no my practical's on the 7th April (that's tomorrow week) my piano pieces still aren't perfect enough. My friend ever so kindly offered to Accompany me on piano for Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again although we'll only have a day or two of practice together, Panis Angelicus should be ok a capella but I can't get my A if I screw up my practical

lilmissprincess

Aw....hope all goes well...good luck to everyone, and remember, it is only 25%, I know thats a lot, but its not like its the entire result. This will not fail you..be calm and whatevber you do don't cry!!!

Piste

but you need the 25% for an A


Yes that post needed to be in Bold.

PurpleFistMixer

Ah in fairness it's probably rather difficult to get 0% in the practical...

lilmissprincess

Yes I know you need the 25% for an A. But unless you get the meanest one in Ireland, you'll basically get most of the 25%.

chief executive

i did mine awhiiiile ago
i did two solo singing and two choir....my solo pieces were i dreamed a dream (from les miserables) and oh holy night
i hate the way they dont tell you your results because if you were planning to carry on to lc you can choose whether you want your practicals to be 25% or 5o%...

N90user

Did 2 TW and two Bodhran! Yippee went well for a nights practice!

Twinkle-star15

I did mine ages ago, but that doesn't diminish the fact that I sucked. I did 2 on piano, and 2 singing. My piano was only grade one, so I was like, eek! And I f*cked up my singing because I was so nervous (and tbh, the accompanyist for one of my songs was REALLY bad, and the other one changed the harp accompanyment THAT MORNING, so I didn't know it. Yeah, should stop slagging people off to make myself feel better.)

carpothepunk

I forgot about this thread,hehe.Pretty sure we got 25%,the examiner was really nice,and we were joking round with her and stuff saying "Well play one more for an extra 5%" and she said "I wish you could"

So yeah,all in all,uber:D