ok gcse options are coming up soon. ok. i have one question. music is one of the options. what do you do in it? iv been doing guitar for half a year and im just about to start doing keyboards. are guitar and keyboard options i can choose for in music? i know its a bit early but i was just curious.

i wouldn't know (i chose art cos i wasn't into music back then... ahhhhhh), but can't you get information from your school? i wouldn't think you'd have to worry til the last term or two though? maybe try asking people at your school who are doing it now (14-16 yo's). it might differ from school to school, and if so, then you'll want to know specifically from your school('s teachers/students)... i should imagine it'd be ok cos i'm sure a mate played guitar, but don't kill me if i'm wrong! i also remember someone playing drums and another playing piano (so maybe keyboard is ok as well).

ok gcse options are coming up soon. ok. i have one question. music is one of the options. what do you do in it? iv been doing guitar for half a year and im just about to start doing keyboards. are guitar and keyboard options i can choose for in music? i know its a bit early but i was just curious.
I guess it depends on the school you are at and what they have to offer. If you speak to the head of music at your school, they should be able to give you the necessary information and advice.

Friends who I had who studied music GCSE always had a lot of compositions they had to write.. so I guess, be prepared for things like that. Think about how confident you are with the technical side of music.

Either way, it all depends on your school and on the examination board. Not all are identical.

Id say, definitely go and speak to your music teacher. Even if its a bit early, youll have an idea and if you decide you won't like the music course, you can focus on other subjects that youd want to do instead...

Hope this helps
Sarineh x

thanks for your help you two

ok gcse options are coming up soon. ok. i have one question. music is one of the options. what do you do in it? iv been doing guitar for half a year and im just about to start doing keyboards. are guitar and keyboard options i can choose for in music? i know its a bit early but i was just curious.

I did it and now doing A level music. You can play those instruments yeah. It depends on the board but the courses are pretty similar.
You have a practical bit and you get full marks for difficulty if u play a grade 5 piece and above so no point playing grade 8 badly if u can play grade 5 perfectly if u get me. you can play on two instruments or one group/duet and one solo on just one instrument. These are recorded and sent away

You do lots of work on different types of music, dance like waltzes and 70s disco, errr... and baroque stuff and this all comes up in the listening exam.

you compose a piece or two.... again depends on the board.... i had to have one dance... i did a waltz... and something else...just did a piece for violin and piano and you have to write a commentary and evaluation on them

then you have a terminal task which is where your given the begining of a melody (max 15 bars?!??) and you just compose the rest of it within a time limit... you can use instruments to help.

pheww... hope theres nothing i missed out...hope that helps anyways.... oh and i loved it so go for it if your up to it! :D

wow thanks. i think iv decided

I did music gcse. My compositions were bad but I played two grade 5 pieces for the solo and group practical exams on teh flute.

I only did music gcse because I was crap at art (can't draw) and drama (too shy) but I could play the flute so music it was! Yay!

Fantasy, I didn't have to do that terminal composing exam thing. I had set musical pieces, one in depth piece we had to know all the names of parts of etc, was really hard. And we had secular music, some scary weird german things, music from Les Mis etc. Some other stuff. Then some of the pieces would come up in the exam and we'd have to say which parts of the music it was, describe the texture and what part of the river such and such part was meant to represent (one of our pieces was about a river with very distinct parts in it- turned out to be castles and I had that wrong of course...)

I aced my practicals in the end, probably failed the composing because all the notes clashed and the listening exam must have been ok.. got a C. Didn't do it for A Level!!! Nobody did! The teacher was mad...

amy la calabazita

I did Art for my GCSE, but only because I really can't act or do much musically, although i think you have to be a genius to get a good grade, I had to really work hard to get my D. I think the teacher hated me.

i'm doing it now. We can play any instrument we want. You don't even have to play an instrument though my teacher says it is advised that you do (...well duh lol) Yer you do what amy said....lol i had forgotten until i read that amy! cheers lol. I am gunna do poop in it but ah well. I love drawing but it was one or the other and i chose this :p :D

<3 Liz

i'm doing it now. We can play any instrument we want. You don't even have to play an instrument though my teacher says it is advised that you do (...well duh lol) Yer you do what amy said....lol i had forgotten until i read that amy! cheers lol. I am gunna do poop in it but ah well. I love drawing but it was one or the other and i chose this :p :D

<3 Liz

Yer i'm doing it too. There's loads of composing to do which i <3 doing!
I'm playing piano and we get free lessons aswel which i thought was pretty cool. I have an assesment on Friday (eek) and i gotta play a song so i'm doing My immortal.