Grade 5 Exam!

[Justin Chune]

Nice one. Congratulations.

Jim.

[Conor John]

Wow well done! Just passed my grade five too! Not with Guildhall though, with ABRSM. Is guildhall good? What sax do you use?

[TomMapfumo]

Well done CJ!

I must admit the ABRSM seem to have the nicest choice of music of the 3 boards of music (ABRSM, Trinity/Guildhall and London College of Music/Thames Valley University, the latter board being the only one in UK that does Jazz Grades 6,7& 8 for Brass instruments as distinct from Woodwind)

Kind regards from Skabertawe
Tom

[Lewis.S]

Wow well done! Just passed my grade five too! Not with Guildhall though, with ABRSM. Is guildhall good? What sax do you use?

Hi John,

I use a selmer super action series II selmer mouthpiece + lig and a strength 3 vandoren reed! I like the warm tone I can create.

I used trinity because in the future I shall be using It .I don't think I will be doing theory so can't do 6, 7 and 8 with ABRSM. Also Trinity is cheaper and slightly easier.

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Something I left out in the post was that the examiner though I was doing the aural exam! So I did the whole aural test before asking, "Is this musical knowledge?"
The reply I recieved was: " silly me! I'm used to people doing sightreading and aural!"

Oh well, I don't think I did to bad in the aural test, even though it didn't count!

Cheers everyone! Lewis

[Rico Vandoren]

Brilliant! Well done!

[mr.bojangles]

Well done, that's a great result. I'm hoping to take my grade 5 Trinity exam around xmas time.( it'll be my first ) Although several years older than you I hope to get a great result like you. You must be very proud of yourself. Any chance you could let me know what pieces you did so I can see what I've got to try and achieve.