Recent content by RJO1988

Hey!! Cmon, I thought to my self EXACTLY what you are thinking now - having no chance of getting in and all!! I'M SURE!! you are being modest!! (you can gauge pretty much from who's being a stuck up and not... and you are sure not one of them!! so I'm saying... modest!) GIVE IT A SHOT! What do...

I don't know in the audition if the look "down" on pplz who didn't do Music 2 and ext etc etc grades crap... but I know that once you are in... no one gives a darn if you did ext. mus and got 49/50 for it etc etc (that's quiet common at the Con) - so if you get my drift. I did BOTH (2 years in a...

Oh and here comes my loud mouth again!! In regards to audition... it is pretty competative all arond the Units (departments). UAI... it says n/a... don't believe that. Get at least 85 + and you'll be good. If you are hella hawt like ur_inner_child ;) then you don't have to worry about UAI. :D...

Basically in regards to the Con and UNSW... the Con is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY better in regards to the MusEd side... and Performance... and Composition... and Musicology... :D (you get the drift?). You hear that UNSW is like all acedemic and all which is great!! But you go to the Con and it's a...

Well done all!! You all should be proud of yourselfs!! :D Good work!! :D Catcha around this year!! :D... hopefully?

I think give it a shot... why not?!! I did HSC in 05 and I was in the same position as you were... ended up with E4 and I was pretty happy. Was it hard work? I didn't do performance (although doing performance degree now at the Con) so I couldn't tell you what it was like back then, but 12...

Unfortunantly not!! :( I was doing the BMusEd degree until 2008 (end of 2007) because they've changed it slightly and it's not really good... for me ANYWAYS!! so yeh... :D As far as I know that is!!...

Heya!! One of my friends that goes to the Con High (percussionist) got nominated for encore... so GO PERCUSSIONIST!! :D :P ;) Well done to all the rest who got nominated!! Hope you all get in and play!! :D All the best!!

Hi there! It's funny that the Con can make you think that if you don't do these particular things, it's not possible to get into the Con. THAT IS NOT THE CASE!! PLENTY!! of Music 1 students around the Con... pretty darn good ones as well!! Basically the deal with saying "ameb musicianship grade...

Heya. The Jazz Apt. test I think is on the same day as your audition if I can remember. (long time ago for me :D) It'll specify specifially when you get a letter from the Con saying, "Your audition date is blah and this is where you do it etc etc." and the Jazz Apt. test will be mentioned there...

Heya!! There are a lot of things you've asked in your thread. I'll try to answer em' one by one :D. Basically the deal with Musicology is you submitt your essay (for the portfolio bit) that you did in HSC Ext. Mus. and they'll say "Hi we'll interview you on this date, day and time. See you...

Hey all!! Aren't you lucky pplz not to have to do Aural EVER again!! hahaha... I have meagan (how ever you spell her name) and that's cool, but for solfege I have Brett... yes Brett Mullins... yes Bunny... Brett >.<" ARGH!! ONE MORE YEAR OF IT THEN IM DONE!! hahaha... CAN'T WAIT!!

Hey Qualona. I did my viva voce in 2005. We also had to do them in year 11 (2004). Specify exactly what you have to do for the viva voce... the actual meaning of a viva voce is basically a talk... question and answer. That's what we did for year 11. But year 12, we basically had to give a...

I'm bored so I'll give you the link anyways... http://www.vicfirth.com/features_concert.html And more in http://www.vicfirth.com/features.html Have Fun with it!!

With mallets, it really depends on the sound you want. Marimba playing usually uses yarn. Nice tone to it. Rubber is also used to some extent on marimba. Xylophone - use hard mallets, they're like chuppa-chups. Those real hard ones. Most orchestral repertoires and concert band reps. uses...