Music Exam

Today's music exam was always going to be hit and miss coz im honestly not brilliant at that side of things. More relying on a good mark from my performing.

Anyhoo, i got into school nice and early and went over some concepts with a people. Bryan put his ipod in my locker again, but did remember it afterwards this time :P

For the exam itself, i was lucky enough to be sat in seat 1, right at the front of the class. Oh joy.
The paper seemed quite difficult whilst sitting it. The literacy question was disastrous and there were a few other dodgy bits. However, "Ghost Town" by The Specials was featured as an excerpt which brought some joy, even if i didnt answer the questions on it that well, but one excerpt in particular made my day - Ballett, specifically the song i posted not too long ago (Now is the Month of Maying)

Me and the guy i sit next to in class have had this running fixation with the ballett all year and i joked if it came up in the exam i might just scream and well... i almost actually did. I sat there in silent fits of giggles. And afterwards i said to the guy, "It was great, a little bit of wee almost came out"
Okay, it didn't really :P
But it made my day and thats a certain 1 mark in the bag!

As i said, the rest of the paper was come and go but i felt a lot better about it afterwards. My teacher was giving pupils what she put as answers for the paper and it would seem i did better than i had originally thought. I took note of her answers coz i knew my mum was bringing the paper back (she invigilates at another school) and i would be able to check my answers.
Well, after doing that i'd say my mark was about average. Between 24-28 out of 40 at an estimate. However, there were 4 or 5 careless mistakes i made which could have bumped me over 28 and into the A category. But who knows, this paper combined with my practical might still bloody well get me an A!
I hope so. I'd be disappointed with a B in music of all subjects.

After the exam was quite fun. I went back to Rob's house with another friend and we played Rock Band 3. He has pro drums i.e an electronic drum kit that can be used to play the game so it's insanely realistic but also insanely difficult.
And insanely fun.
I don't even have the game let alone an electronic drum kit but it has persuaded me that i must get the game. I've been delaying on it for too long.
But that's another issue: money. I've been saving up for a laptop for my birthday and will have to put about 200 quid towards it. That's all fine. I can afford that.

However, i've also made noise to Bryan about going to the Saturday at Leeds Festival and perhaps the Sunday at Reading which he seems quite keen on. It's mostly coz im afraid Muse will play a poor set at Leeds, and then a great one at Reading. But even if they dont, i could get to see one of my favourite albums played live twice, and spend a whole weekend with Bryan instead of just s a day or two ;)
Anyhoo, that would be an extra 100 odd quid (tickets on Viagogo are surprisingly cheap!) and would mean that i cant really spend much on anything else. So im afraid Rock Band 3 might need to be put on the backburner, as well as my desire for a new xbox...

Agh, i hate managing finances! It's so stressful. But most things i spend my money on anyway is to do with music so it's all for a good cause :D

I've strayed from the music exam... Well i don't have much else to say about it actually. It went ok. I have my grumbles but i also have positives to take out of it, like the ballett and at least im quite certain i passed the thing which is something at least!


Oh, lastly. Its seems Dave the Rave has sadly departed Blogger. I never got to read his final post, just a preview of what it said, "Honest someone pointed out to me that most of the people who comment on my blog declare themselves as older wiser and trustworthy they are anything but they spend all day tracking our posts."


Woulda been interested to read all of that one... 



Rowan <3





The ballett that was in the exam ^



This was also in one of my favourite films ever - Shaun of the Dead. Completely forgot about it!

Exams

So the holida... i mean, the exam period has started xD

I genuinely don't feel too worried. The only thing that concerns me in complacency. I got 5 A's in my prelims so i have reason to feel quite confident but then everyone says, "Don't count your chickens" or whatever.

And i'm not. Just because i'm not worried doesn't mean i'm not working. This morning and yesterday morning i completed two close reading passages (for English) which are nearly 2 hours each and to be honest, i found them a daudle. Of course, marking yourself isn't a true reflection of the final score but the passages were no more difficult than what we've done in class this year and im finishing them with fair ease and rather quickly as well.
I guess it's just because i've done so many of them that the exam tomorrow is more "Ugh" instead of "AAAAAGH!"
The essays are the difficult part but i know most of my quotes, paragraph structures etc. Just gotta hope nothing goes disastrously wrong.

So yes, English is tomorrow, Friday the 13th May.
DUH, DUH, DUH, DUH!
So that consists of Close Reading for an hour and 45 minutes, a break then 2 essays in 1 hour 30 minutes.

Then it's:

French on the 17th - Reading paper and a listening paper
Music on the 23rd - Listening. Simply listening, which i've improved greatly in over the past few weeks.

For a lot of people, that's their last or penultimate exam. Not for this guy, whose exams go into June!

Spanish on the 2nd of June - Reading and listening.

But the biggest joke of them all is Media Studies on the 7th June. Study leave is over by that time, we go back on the 6th of June!
I've been allowed the 6th off but i want to go in to get acquainted with my new classes etc - and hopefully get a cheeky seat beside Bryan ;D
So yeh, media is a total bitch. Everyone else can stop stressing around May 24th/25th but we, the damned, are on the go until June 7th.
What's more is that there's an 11 day break between Music and Spanish. An absolute pisstake. You think i'm going to be revising for 11 days? Yeh, right.

End of the day, im going into these exams with confidence. I'll try not to get complacent but no way do i feel the need to be revising 6-8 hours a day as recommended by nearly every teacher. Especially, not when i am now the proud owner of the Alien Quadrilogy :P
Great timing, eh?
Stupid. But i love the franchise so much. Alien is easily one of my favourite films of all time, and the best movie in the franchise, but only just. 2 is magnificent as well.
It's such a shame; a local cinema was showing both films late at night recently and i would have *loved* to have seen them on the big screen. Alas, im not 18 so i couldn't :(
But i now have them all at my disposal - although 3 and Resurrection will probably get viewed once and never again. Ugh, terrible films. Well, 3 is. Resurrection is ok.

Dunno where that came from. Exams ---> Alien. I don't quite see the connection. Anyhoo...



Rowan <3



Thought you might enjoy this. A lovely, little ballett entitled, "Now is the Month of Maying". Magnifico \m/