Encouraging Your Student Violinist to Practice

Written by Leah Megiel


9:00 am, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm, — Practice Time, What’srepparttar Big Deal?

If you find yourself immersed in violin tuning, violin fingering charts and perhaps Suzuki music you may findrepparttar 109220 following helpful.

This short article isrepparttar 109221 first in a series aimed at shedding some light on this mystery of encouraging your child to enjoy, maybe even look forward to violin practice time.

If you can relate to any ofrepparttar 109222 following statements, please don’t tellrepparttar 109223 rest of us!

1. My child is so motivated to practice her violin, she will go to bed early in order to awake and be ready for practice at 6:00 am.

2. My son quitrepparttar 109224 soccer team because it was cutting into his violin practice time. 3. I often spend many hours online searching for free violin sheet music just to satisfy my daughter’s unquenchable thirst for new music. She lovesrepparttar 109225 challenge!

4. We cancelled our family trip to Hawaii because our son just couldn’t bearrepparttar 109226 fact that he would miss two violin lessons. He’s just s-o-o-o motivated and we don’t want to break that spirit in him.

5. Violin tuning has become a fun family event, we all love to get involved.

6. My daughter is learning about fractions by memorizingrepparttar 109227 different violin sizes, 1/16, 1/10, ¼, who know fractions could be so much fun?!

Forrepparttar 109228 rest (probably 99.99%) of us, let me assure you, there is hope! Chances are, we may never be able to claim any one ofrepparttar 109229 four statements above, but there are positive, fun methods of encouraging your child to practice without pain to them or you.

Time of day. Three little words that pack a huge punch when it comes to creating an effective practice time. Two things you need to consider are: 1. Your child’s age 2. Observe what time of day they haverepparttar 109230 highest level of concentration.

My daughter began studyingrepparttar 109231 violin at age five. At that time we practiced inrepparttar 109232 morning, for no particular reason other than it was a convenient time. Occasionally, practice time would get pushed back torepparttar 109233 afternoon hours, no big deal …. or so I thought. Those afternoon practices never went well, but sometimes I don’t catch on too quickly. In fact,repparttar 109234 somewhat unfavorable afternoon practices were not what clued me in torepparttar 109235 fact that my child was not an “afternoon person.” It was her writing practice that finally got through to me. Five minutes worth of writing practice inrepparttar 109236 morning became 20 to 30 minutes of agony inrepparttar 109237 afternoon. Aha! The light bulb had been turned on, “Maybe,” I said to myself, “just maybe she is a morning person!”

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