Post here if you're feeling GOOD.


Come on guys, time to shine.

Taking theory on the 16th but I am not sure I am feeling GOOD. Good luck, Jaunty.

You gotta be positive man, believe in yourself. I believe in you.

odd. my exam is on june the 9th.

but im good, yea.

I'm feeling ok about my theory on the 16th...its just the practical I'm dreading in 2 days time

Yep, doing grade 7 on the 16th. Fairly sure of a pass, anything more would be jammy. I've got it SORTED!

I'm doing grade 6 on the 16th...arrhhhh!!! only a week and a day to go!! I might pass. I hope so! I've just got to make sure i check really hard (esp. for consecutives ) and don't miss anything obvious and try my best. If i do that, i won't have let anyone down!

Good luck to everyone taking an exam soon, especially on the 16th!

I'm taking G5 on the 16th, for fun (I must have been in a masochistic mood on entry day ). The last time I took a written music exam was in 2001 (A level), so it will be a bit strange, plus I'll probably be considerably older than most of the other candidates!

i am doing grade 5 theory on the 16th and am so unprepared! i just cant get myself motivated to do it!! i hate theory but am currenty bored playin piano and cornet as im around grade 6 on both!! arghh!

I've been trying to do as much work as possible. Good luck to you all on the 16th. Because not many people do theory after grade 5, in the school where I am doing my g6 exam I could be the only person left there for an hour with the invigilator. What a scary thought. Has that ever happened to anyone?

I'm taking grade 5 on the 16th. And I just discovered i don't know how minor scales go.....

Grade 5 theory on the 16th Good Luck to everyone xxxxxxxx

You can all achieve great things.

Good luck guys! Persevere!

sidetrack.. new emoticons! I must have been out of this forum for too long! haha

good luck to everyone taking theory on the 16th. I'm taking gr 5 theory and i'm actually looking forward to it. For some reason i've really enjoyed learning theory. Just hope i can find my way to the exam and hopefully pass

I'm taking grade 8 on the 16th... Argh!! Cant wait to get it over and done with though. Good luck to everyone doing theory exams!!

Hey me too! I'm actually considering taking Grade 6!

Excuse me if I say that I FEEL GOOD also, although I am a teacher and not taking my Theory Exam on Saturday. I only have one candidate (Grade 5) this time, and in her last test paper she got 100% - so I feel quite good.

The very best of luck to everyone doing theory grades tomorrow.

Thank you so much everyone. I certainly need it. Good luck to everyone else tomorrow. What am I doing in here? I should be doing last-minute revision.

Good luck, folks

Good luck, everyone

Argh!!! Getting quite nervous now!!

*trying to remember the difference between a german and a french augmented 6th chord*

Me too, Malone; getting nervous that is. I am sorry I can't help you. On the grade 6 paper, question 2, does the leading note always have to go to the tonic. Please can someone remind me about what the falling 7th is and the rule. Thanks

My teacher says that at the cadence at the end, always have the leading note to the tonic. Falling 7th and rule?? uhoh, is there something important i've missed?? I'm getting nervous, too. In theory (excuse the pun) i should also be revising, but i'm not sure how much cramming i can really do.

Good luck to everyone!

Thanks, Piello. Are you doing grade 6 as well? I did a few 1a questions just now. I am now working on doing a few no. 2 questions and then I will look at the melodies my teacher has marked. Oh and I had better remind myself about how to write out ornaments in full.

Good luck to all doing the exams!

Yes... leading note to tonic and make sure it's in the same part/voice.

Never heard of a falling 7th rule and I got grade 8 distinction.

Thanks Sbhoa. I'll forget about what falling seventh refers to. Must have got myself confused with something else.

Thank you all for the best wishes. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE IN WHATEVER EXAMS YOU ARE DOING. IT'S BED TIME NOW. XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Leading note - 7th of the scale, rises, but the 7th of a CHORD falls.

Now that makes sense.... I tend to think of it as 'resolves downwards'.

Best of luck everyone !

Thank you!
I think its probably to late now to be doing last minute cramming!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! Uh oh shouldnt be up... must get sleep...

give it your best shot, everyone!

cheers,
Ifsy

Good luck to all!

Thanks for all the good wishes (and the help on intervals )!

Has everybody had a final read of DJONES' advice pinned at the top of the Theory forum!

Oh, thanks Skylark - i'll do that in a sec!
Good Luck again, guys! We'll all do fine, i'm sure...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!


Good luck everyone. We can do this!


See you back here afterwards......

Good luck everyone, and thanks for the support. Exam in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Bye xxxxxxx

Ditto...


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Three hours of theory... See you later!

Well 3 of my children are sitting their exams now. 2 x gr 5 and 1 x gr 6.

Unfortunately the gr 6 past papers that were getting marked by someone other than me, got lost in the post on their way back to us - so he never did find out what someone official thought of his work !

And yes, they all read the DJONES theory check list that was blutacked to the front door as they left.....

Now comes the big wait till Sept when the exam marks make their way over to Europe.

everyone taking theory today!

My grade five theory pupil just called in to say that he thought that it was all very straight-forward. I hope that is a good sign. How did you all get on?

I found the grade 6 paper a lot more difficult than the past papers that I've been doing!! Eeeek!

There were three "melodic intervals" in the pieces which I just couldn't find. I spent about half and hour looking for them before giving up completely and just guessing. Realising figured bass was also trickier than usual, a couple of chords just wouldn't fit and I ended up given some of the parts lines that I didn't like!

Still... I hope I've scraped a pass!

NM

I didn't think it was too, bad actually; but it did take me a while to find those intervals! Also, on Q5, I couldn't figure what chord is D# F# A# B# in the key of C# minor. Any ideas?
But i'm just hoping for a pass....we'll wait and see

Just back from doing grade 8 paper....

Wasn't all bad. I was quite confident with my trio sonata, piano writing and melody writing questions, which are the three I usually find I spend the most time on, but then it came to the two analysis questions and they were harder than the past papers I reckon. There were lots of sneaky questions and it took me forever to find the consequtive notes of anticipation a third apart, and then again a while to find the false cross relation which i nearly gave up on until after staring blankly at the page at the end it jumped out at me.
The last question was quite easy, more boring than anything else - transposing 4 Horns in F and a Clarinet in A all into the bass clef and back to concert pitch...
And what about the changing bars into different time signature without losing the rythmic feel - That never came up in the past papers I have!!

Oh so those intervals were there?! Gutted - I really couldn't find them. Was hoping that it was some kind of mistake!

Errm I had that chord as a G# major 7 chord as I found a G#, B#, D# and F#...

NM

I was also beginning to hope/think there was a mistake till i found them on one of my numerous check throughs! Oh, that could be right! I checked that chord so many times that there must've been something I missed! i wrote "On D# (supertonic), a 6th chord, minor, root position" !! just a load of words; out of that lot i thought a tiny bit might be worth 1 mark!!

Did you transpose the transposing instruments? I remember having a weird chord until I realised that there were horns in the chord and that I needed to take their part down a perfect fifth!

NM