LC Pieces

It wasn't me! · 20-09-2005 8:15pm #1

Any suggestions for LC guitar pieces? I'm thinking 'Round About Midnight by Wes Montgomery at the moment. Possibly Hide Away by Freddie King, though I'm worried that might be too simplistic. I'd like a good metal piece and a classical piece as well. All suggestions and hints are appreciated as well. Thanks,
Dave

jcoote · 20-09-2005 8:18pm

if u could manage la villa stangiato by rush thats rock and clasical together savage tune..but tis really complex tho

LundiMardi · 20-09-2005 8:32pm

no offence but it's only the leaving cert, Don't try and learn something beyond your capabilities.

Learn something easy and play it well..

I'd been playing a year or so when i did mine, i did higher level and played 6 fairly simple songs, i didn't do the written exam and i *think* the practical accounts for 50% and i still passed so......

jcoote · 20-09-2005 8:39pm

yeah thats good advice i suppose take it easy...i get carried away sometimes :rolleyes:...

It wasn't me! · 20-09-2005 8:40pm

I know what you mean, but I intend doing it at third level, so I want to do well at it, therefore I want to do songs of a good standard.

jcoote · 20-09-2005 8:43pm

but are u marked on the complexity of the piece or how well u execute it???

It wasn't me! · 20-09-2005 8:48pm

Well, you're expected to be of Grade 7 standard for an A, so the pieces have to be good. I want to really turn heads though, and I'm willing to work to do it.

It wasn't me! · 20-09-2005 9:03pm

I'm considering taking a whack at Satriani-Crushing Day. Kickass piece, but probably way beyond me...

fish-head · 20-09-2005 9:18pm

Hide Away, despite how ****ing brilliant a tune it is, is a bit too simple I reckon.
My guitar teacher started me on a piece called Romanza, he said it's garaunteed points. Plus it sounds cool. Cant quite get the classical fingerpicking thing down perfectly yet though.

And as far I know you only have to be at grade 4.

It wasn't me! · 20-09-2005 9:23pm

Grade 4 will pass. Grade 7 is an A. I want the A.

-=al=- · 20-09-2005 10:40pm

thats a hard thing to fail, just do 50% of the test in performances, u gota play 6 things, just play somethin your comfortable with! its not for a while so u got a while to play somethin u like and get playing it well,

It doesnt really matter how complex it is, its just how well u play it...... complex things look cooler :cool: i played 6 satch songs for mine last year weh hey!

But dont know about crushing day theres tons of gutiar harmonies in that although its a kick ass song theres alota chance for **** ups, i played - awmawy, love thing, swta, baroque, midnight and tears in the rain, went well got nearly full marks i made mistakes on the clap test thing

Civilian_Target · 20-09-2005 10:58pm

It wasn't me! wrote:

Grade 4 will pass. Grade 7 is an A. I want the A.

Varies from instrument to instrument. I got an A with pretty close to full marks in my practical playing the violin - did 3 grade 8's (Associated Board, not RIAM), a grade 7, a grade 6 and one I picked myself that was probably in and around grade 7 (not very complicated, but quite fast) .

My advice is to make sure, whatever standard you go for, that you pick a good variety of pieces - from the old to the new, the slow to the quick, that demand a good range of technique and musicianship. Don't come across as a one-horse-pony.

Of course, don't forget you can have any 1 component of the music exam count as 50%, so you can give 50% to practical, 25% to paper I and 25% to paper II or give 25% to the practical and 50% to one of the papers...

mickymg2003 · 21-09-2005 9:31am

if u play something that sounds good to the ear you will get marks because most of the time the examiner wont know anything about guitar so as long as you pick a nice sounding piece that doesnt repeat itself too much you will get good marks.A friend of mine went in an played 2 lizzy songs an he got lucky because the examiner said she liked thin lizzy!!!

kennier · 21-09-2005 9:50am

You can play guitar for the LC??!! Feck sake! Should have been an 80's kid

Still have that dream where the maths exam is in the morning but I haven't done any study but everyone else has...*shivers*

It wasn't me! · 21-09-2005 2:41pm

Heh. For Maths in the JC, I came in in a somewhat less than lucid state for paper two after the Pixies gig that weekend.

Got a B... I'm aiming to vary it as much as possible. Anyone want to suggest some useful pieces for me?

Mongo · 21-09-2005 3:54pm

I'm in the same boat but looking for Bass pieces.Tough to pick something impressive but actually within my grasp.

demanufactured · 21-09-2005 4:01pm

i did cryin as one of my JC songs

went down well

-=al=- · 21-09-2005 4:32pm

i failed maths

fish-head · 21-09-2005 5:34pm

The theme from the Deer hunter? Cant remember its name. Anything by John Williams I guess would be good. Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell. Some Django Reindhart choons maybe?

feylya · 21-09-2005 8:15pm

Malmsteen - Farewell.

mickymg2003 · 22-09-2005 6:44pm

Mongo wrote:

I'm in the same boat but looking for Bass pieces.Tough to pick something impressive but actually within my grasp.

Do pulling teeth(Bass Solo Thing) by metallica.Its reasonably easy an it never repeats an sounds good.Oh and some simple slap bass that sound good but u need the right bass for that-Jazz bass will do the job.

It wasn't me! · 22-09-2005 9:17pm

Thanks fey, have checked out farewell and will probably do it. Might it not be a bit short though?

Custom22 · 22-09-2005 9:28pm

Play absoutely anything and you'll do well. Do play a good variety though. I fecked up royally, well I thought I did, and I got an A2. So I must have actually nailed it. Its really simple. And keep the pieces short. One of mine was about 30 seconds.

Apparantly traditional music is an instant A1 provided you dont feck it up. I heard this from a reliable person.

It wasn't me! · 22-09-2005 9:51pm

I heard that before as well. I'll probably do one trad piece.

DamienH · 22-09-2005 10:01pm

Black rose by thin lizzy thats fairly good trad peice

It wasn't me! · 23-09-2005 8:30pm

Could be cool alright, though methinks it's usually better to do single guitar pieces that actually focus more on guitar. Then again, the technique in that song couldn't really be faulted...

Gileadi · 24-09-2005 1:07pm

ok i did the LC music course and got full marks in the practical this year and the thing to remember is not to play beyond your limits and to bear in mind that when your practising for the practical you have to practise for your irish + other language oral so you would want something you can get ontop of fairly fast

you wont be marked nearly as hard as a classical grade exam and the marks are there for your performance and i found abit of chit chat with the examiner between the songs will put you both at ease and maybe endere (sp?) the examiner to you a little

personally i did the 2 instrument option with 4 pieces each, 4 on a classical guitar and 4 on an electric guitar

i did a grade 7 piece ,2 grade 5 pieces and mason williams "Classical Gas" on classical and all went well

did jeff buckley "hallelujah", primal scream "damage", led zep "stairway" and lizzys "dancing in the moonlight" which by all accounts none of these are exceptionally hard songs to play but still managed to get max marks

basically play something you can play really well and dont worry about if its not up to some grade level(they are only guidelines), an easy song played well is better than a hard song played terribly

It wasn't me! · 24-09-2005 8:46pm

Thanks. I want to do something reasonably impressive, but I want to be able to do it well. Am I better off avoiding songs with riffs and stuff for ages and not much lead or anything?

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