can you help with music please

[STEFFYSMUM]

my dd is looking for music for her higher music exam. one of the songs shes thinking of is jar of hearts by christina perry. can anyone please help me with finding the music for this. thank you in advance

[pollypickles]

We always use music room for sheet music, you can change the key on this site also I believe. Found it for you on

http://www.musicroom.com/Search/Find.as ... +of+hearts

good luck

[Flosmom]

Fabulous choice!

Flo adores this song, although her first love is classical, closely followed by musical theatre.

Hope your DD does well with this.

Deb x

[paulears]

Can you find out what people have used in the past for this examination? Do they give you guides and information on what is actually being assessed - because the music needs to have the features the examiners can require, and not just be a nice song. Music exams for voice often explore range and intervals to see how good voices are. Some songs, while nice, just fit badly and generate low marks because the important mark earning features are not actually in the piece?

[pollypickles]

My DD has taken all of her singing exams with the Trinity board so am only familar with the marking criteria for them. I can dig out her marking sheet though if you want to know, let me know if you do

[STEFFYSMUM]

thanks folks higher music is the school music exam equivalant to alevel. for the practical assesment dd has to have 2 instruments. her first is voice her second is ephonium. her first has to be 4 contrasting songs. her ephonium is 2 pieces of music which her teacher has already given her. as long as the songs are sqa approved for that standard of exam shes sitting they can do almost anything. so she has chosen good morning baltimore, i dreamed a dream. jar of hearts. and nel cor ( or something like that lol.) 2 musical theatre a pop and an italiain aria.

[Coco]

My dd was told to stick to opera for her GCSE and now AS Level exams, as they said that she would automatically get considerably better marks because they are considered to be so much more difficult to do well. (which of course they are really to be fair) So they've talked her out of doing anything pop. Sounds like you are on to it anyway though Pollypickles, if you have the mark sheet and everything, but I just thought I'd mention it ! Wishing her all the best.

[STEFFYSMUM]

coco it was the teacher that told her to do a pop song lol. as my dd hates them lol. she did 2 musical theatre songs for standrard grade (gcse equivlant) and got 98% think the examiner was glad to hear something different lol. here they like them to show that they can sing any type of song apparently get better marks for it. im just glad shes picked them sooner rather than later as usually shes last min lol. the exams not till feb .

[paulears]

Most of the exam boards have the marks scheme for the previous year publicly available on the net. See if you can find it and see what they were looking for - you can usually also read the Chief Examiners report, which usually contains valuable info on how the work fitted. It won't be the same this year exactly, but you can often read things that help "A larger than usual number of candidates selected popular songs where the difficulty level was too low, not allowing candidates to demonstrate their skills in many areas. However, a number selected music from the Western Classical Tradition, which allowed access to all grade levels". I made that up - but it's pretty typical.

[Coco]

Sorry Steffymum, I called you by the wrong name ! Glad your dd's teacher sounds like she knows what she's doing. My dd has 3 different music teachers for As Music and none of them seem to know what the other ones are doing !!