Sarah's Grades

E: What instuments do you play?

S: Well, apart from bass... Guitars of all description. You know, acoustic, twelve-string, whatever really. I have my grade 5 practical and theory in bass. I play bass to grade 8 standard but I never took my grade 8 tests because I was half-way through my college year when the Hepburn thing happened...

E: But guitars aren't the only instruments you play, are they...?

S: No. I'm graded in piano. I can play mandolin, double bass, and play the drums a bit. Oh - and I sing a bit as well! My second favourite instrument - after bass - is the sitar. I'm learning to play that too.

E: What about technical stuff?

S: I have experience with Cubase, music sequencing, and I know my way round a recording studio. I studied all of this stuff as part of my BTEC in Popular Music at Clarendon College in Nottingham.

E: What grades did you get on your course?

S: They were okay.

E: You got seventeen distinctions and two passes, didn't you?

S: (Laughing) I was quite pleased about it! Don't put that bit in though cos it sounds like a big "Sarah" advert!

E: Okay, I won't.