I'm sorry for being gone, I was ill for a few days and since then I've been really busy. I did my piano exam today (the one I failed in December). I am confident that I did well; I don't think I failed this time at least! No seriously though I played well and I'm very happy about it.
This is just going to be a slightly rambly PEDIM without a real topic, so sorry if you don't like those ones. I think they're nice every once in a while. I right exactly what I'm thinking and I don't filter anything, so it's more conversational. Ah! Actually I did have something I was going to talk about. I was going to talk about how I'm glad I failed my piano exam.
You're probably thinking "What?", "Why?", "Why would you want to fail?". Between passing with flying colours and failing, I would rather pass. Certainly. But between just scraping a pass and failing I would much rather fail. Here's why.
If I had just scraped a pass I would still have been disappointed. I would have wanted to do the exam again anyway probably, even though I wouldn't. Mainly because exams cost money and I wouldn't spend it on doing an exam I had already passed. Failing the exam has taught me things, and helped me improve my exam technique. I was really proud of myself today because I kept calm. I have been working on being able to keep anxiety under control for the past few months and it really payed off today. I kept calm. I didn't get super shakey fingers or forget how to play or any of the other things that usually go wrong for me. I was cool and collected and I knew what I was doing. Yes, I was nervous, but I kept it under control.
I have also learnt that you can't get by with piano exams only practising once or twice a week for months. That's why I failed. At the time of practising for the exam I just wasn't feeling piano. I had no inspiration. It's like a reading slump, but with piano. If you see what I mean. I am out of that now and I have fresh new inspiration for learning new pieces for grade 5! Oh my goodness grade 5! That sounds so difficult to me. I guess I'll have to work it out.
That's all folks,
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