Kids Piano

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I just passed my 8th grade AMEB piano exam with a B+ and am currently preparing for my AMusA diploma which I plan to take next year. I’m 14 but I really want a way to earn some money. Do you think I’m qualified enough to teach little kids piano, like maybe 5-8 year olds? Not to do piano grades or anything, just kids that want to learn for fun. Also what’s a good way to find kids to teach, because I’m only 14 and not many people would let a 14 year old teach their kid piano, so far the only kid who may want to learn is a 5 year old who is my mum’s friends daughter, but I don’t think she has a piano yet or she might want to go to a proper teacher.

ok so i’ve got a piano exam in like 2-3 ish weeks …
its for gr.8 RCM
and ive never done one before
so i have some questions
basically ANYONE whos done an exam, like any grade, instrument can help
ps . im a really nervous type and i think im especially nervous casue you know when you dont know stuff it makes you like EXTRA nervous? lmao i feel better the more i know about the exam and like other peoples’ experiences. im 15 so i think it’d help more if people had an exam around my age? like they remember their experience better? but any advice to help me feel less nervous or any advice/shared experiences are really appreciated

so uhm (if you got nervous) like while waiting before you exam, did that go away a bit when you got in and met your examinor ? or did it get worse? and like if im really tense/ nervous i do really bad at the piano ESPECIALLY cause its not mine … so did that happen to anyone?

ok was the examinor behind you? or like beside you?
cause i’d feel a LOT better if they were behind me .. lol

for RCM kids, you know you have a choice between doing technical or repitoire first? like what do you think i should pick? my piano teacher says to do technical first because it warms up your fingers and helps you get used to the piano … ,but i heard if you do songs first the examinor is less likely to make you do inversions and i really suck at inversions. like for arpeggios and dominant/diminished 7th stuff. and the more i practice the more i mess up and the more i get frustrated and i seriously just wanna cut off my hands
but i think i should warm up first cause im bad with other peoples’ pianos especially when im nervous
so i dunno whats your opinion/experience?

ok uhm like for the memorized stuff did anyone ever like blank out?
and what happened when you did?
cause im afraid that might happpen to me
it just happens when im nervous
that happened once at my piano lesson so im kinda freaked …

should i pratice like a lot before my exam? mines at 4pm so should i be practicing the whole day or would i like just jinx myself ? lmfao

and while waiting for my exam what should i do?
like just sit thre?
LMAO i dont wanna be like some freak and practice with a keyboard or something .
or should i listen to my songs(like my teacher gave me the cd with all my songs:P) or should i read over my sheet music? what’d you guys do ? ..
LAST QUESTION.
near your exam
did you start playing worse?
like i mean to me i feel like im playing sorta worse especially when i go for my piano lessons . i think its just the nerves honestly and i just need sometihng to distract me
but this is like piano lessons . ive been playing at this piano like practically once every week for my lesson for 8 years and like my last two lessons have been like failures. i almost cried because i did so bad in one of them. lmfao yeah im sort of pathetic i know

so anyway
thank you for reading this if you’ve read the whole thing .
uhm if you can ansswer them that’d be so appreciated
and i’d be so grateful for any advice to help me (especially for nerves) any inspiring words, any shared experiences and answers.
thank you so much . honestly every answer will help