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Revisiting teenage experiences of sitting instrumental or vocal grade exams must come pretty high up any register of anxiety dreams for adults who had music lessons as children but did not go on to study professionally. So many of us faced the ordeal of stumbling over scales, making silly mistakes in pieces we’d played perfectly at home or failing to identify the middle note of a chord before being released from the torture chamber by an unsmiling examiner who probably didn’t even raise their head from their marksheet.
Unsmiling examiners are now rare, thankfully; even the most traditionally minded exam boards have recognised for some time that putting a child or a nervous adult learner at their ease before they start to play will give them a
