So I had my Guild testing for my Advanced Bach medal today. Ended up getting a Superior, amazingly (middle step in the top tier). I'm getting my last plaque! Plus I don't have to take a test next summer since I already have the ten years required for my Paderewski medal. I'll just be prepping for my high school diploma (which will be taken my senior summer, duh) during that time... It's going to be weird not taking any sort of piano test during the summer though...
But anyways, I thought I played pretty crappily in general. There weren't many major issues (except for my fourth piece, when I skipped like, half of the song), but I had minor errors in about half of my pieces...
Anyways, the judge talked to me A TON before I started playing, so much so that I was sort of like, "Can I just START now?!" She told me about her profession, and how she teaches voice in addition to piano, and how her husband and children are engineers, and how she's from Florida, and how she has a voice teacher convention in Colorado... It was just menial small talk. Then she asked me about Bach and why I like Bach, and quite frankly, I don't particularly like Bach that much... This is just sort of part of the testing I need to do. But I sort of BS-ed it and talked about how it's very technical and orderly in a way, then said some stuff about how Bach pieces weren't composed for the modern piano, since she asked about style. And she commented like, "Oh, that makes sense, you seem very math-oriented. My husband is that way, and he likes Bach as well." xD
Oh, and she got mad at me for not sitting on the piano bench right. -sighs- And apparently I was playing the wrong cadences according to the Guild Syllabus, but that's how my teacher taught me, so I didn't really know what to do. She wanted me to play simpler ones in three positions (basically the ones I did before I learned the more advanced ones). But whatever, I ended up doing the more advanced ones just because she was like, "I know you haven't practiced these, and it's not your fault."
Then she kept talking to me after every piece I played for the first four, and even interrupted me and rambled for about a minute or two between my second scale and the actual corresponding piece... All while she was talking, I was trying to remember what song I was getting ready to play.
So as I was saying, in between my third and fourth pieces, she was talking about the cadences again, so I got totally distracted and screwed up my fourth piece, and paused for a while, when she told me to move on. Since I was only about halfway through the piece, I asked her if I could start a few measures after where I messed up, and she said that it would "break up the flow" of the piece. Then I asked if I could start over again, and she said that "we NEVER start over again!" So basically, she was telling me to scrap that piece, which made me hella nervous since it was actually one of the pieces I usually play the best. So I basically played the last line, since she wouldn't let me do anything more than that. -.-
But anyways, the songs I usually have the most problems with, I actually played pretty well. Which was ironic. But overall, from my point of view, I did pretty crappily. But according to my score, I did well. So whatever. xD
*****
On a different note (haha, get it? Note? xP), even though I usually spend most of my time in my room, there's a slight difference between wanting to stay in my room, and staying in my room because I don't want to go out. Bleh.
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