From past experience, I know that if you cannot practice well between lessons it is almost better not to practice at all. Most children need an assistant in the form of an adoring adult in order to practice. A regular practice schedule is the best for small children. They grow to expect practice every day at the same time. Practice then takes on the quality of inevitability. It becomes part of the routine. I tell my students “Every day you brush your teeth, every day you practice.” One little boy proudly confessed that he never brushes his teeth!

Children also need to repeat what they already know. Repetition is the only way to learn something thoroughly. We forget that children learn gradually. They cannot produce perfection as they learn. Current thinking among physiologists such as Wilson is that we begin to learn to make complicated moves rather laboriously – working out the details step by step, making corrections when we observe our own mistakes, and consciously and deliberately establishing patterns of movements that eventually become less tentative and finally become smooth and secure. Dr Suzuki was famous for his saying ” Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill!” It is up to parents to continually find ways of making practice a joy. I found games with my own children worked and we counted repetitions until we got to 10,000. Needless to say this did not work as they got older and once they understood how a passage should be played and then played it well, couldn’t see the necessity for repetitions. Not every day, but most days, we managed to keep up the repetitions. Just think of walking and how many times a baby has to try and try again before they get it right and keep walking long after they get it right.

A good teacher will have the responsibility of establishing goals for the student’s lessons and these goals need to be specific and well understood by both the student and the parent. Goals that are specific , and reasonably hard but attainable, will produce much better performance than too easy goals or a general goal to do one’s best. I remember when my eldest daughter Stephanie was learning Minuet 2 by Bach and she had difficulty at age 4 getting her little fingers to play the arpeggio section to begin with. Even though the piece is a page long, I got her to only play the first seven notes, 100 times. I then asked her to close her eyes and while holding her violin to put her fingers in the correct positions on the fingerboard. We played a game guessing if her finger positions were individually correct before she checked them by playing singular notes. This helped with her confidence. I have to say, I tried the same method on my youngest daughter Imogen and twenty minutes into the practice on a hot January morning she flung both the violin and bow at me. I managed to catch it just in time. It took me several days to recover by which time I had learned not to push! What works with one doesn’t always work with another.

I think as a parent you need to know your children before you start an instrument with them. They are all different and they deserve your love first and foremost. Maria Montessori says ” The adult’s idea that freedom consists in minimizing duties and obligations must be rejected. The foundation of education must be based on the following facts: That the joy of the child is in accomplishing things great for his age; that the real satisfaction of the child is to give maximum effort to the task at hand; that happiness consists in well directed activity of body and mind in the way of excellence; and that true freedom has, as its objective, service to society and to mankind consistent with the progress and happiness of the individual. Emerson says ” The secret of education Lies in respecting the student” and Shakespeare said ” Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

When my son Miles was three, I decided to start him on piano. I held his elbow and his fingers and taught him how to play ‘twinkle twinkle little star’. I thought that if I teach him in the correct way by guiding his fingers to play each note “perfectly”, since he had never done it incorrectly, he will never learn how to play “badly”. From what I had read in all the teaching manuals, it seemed inevitable that he would fall into the pattern that I had established. By the way, psychologists cal this “external manipulation of the passive learner”. How wrong I was……after several weeks of “perfect” practice I let him give a mini-concert to his grand-parents at their house. Left to his own devices, he tried every “bad” method of using his fingers on the keys possible. I have since discovered that what I had engaged him in was “passive” practice and when he performed he proved how passive his learning had really been. The truth is you cannot teach a passive learner. According to Holding, 1965, ” Knowledge of the correct response is incomplete if there is no opportunity to define it against the alternatives. We cannot be said to understand “red” if we have never identified other colors.” This is why I constantly tell parents to take their children to live music events. This is why I started KINDERJAZZ. You can check us out at http://www.kinderjazz.com Children learn with all their senses and music needs to be in 3D. Children miss out on basic cognitive development without this experience.

About The Author

Christobel Llewellyn PhD is a music educator and mother of three. She runs a Big Band for children called KINDERJAZZ. You can purchase her children’s music CDs from http://www.kinderjazz.com and read more about how to motivate your children to keep practising and how important it is to get your children into music. Music is a fundamental part of education as it develops the right side of the brain which is sadly neglected in our current education system. It’s by far the most important part. Email me to find out why by going to the KINDERJAZZ website.

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Yahoo! Canada – Conservative Party

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says NDP Leader Jack Layton and his deputy Thomas Mulcair can side with the police or Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the fate of the federal long-gun registry.

Liberal Leader Shawn Graham is avoiding offering any specifics about what government services he’d cut in a second mandate in order to curtail the province’s deficit.

Jack Keir would have difficulty holding the traditionally Tory riding of Fundy-River Valley in any election, but now the Liberal cabinet minister is battling a Hydro-Québec hangover as well as economic anxiety.

The Liberals are also promising to overhaul the province’s economic development department as it tries to lure 20,000 new jobs in a second mandate.

The Progressive Conservatives are promising thousands of new childcare spaces across the province if elected in next month’s election.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made a small shuffle of parliamentary responsibilities involving a Winnipeg MP.

Liberal Leader Shawn Graham says his party will support local food growers if elected Sept. 27.

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The Progressive Conservatives would cancel planned tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners in an effort to balance the New Brunswick budget in four years, Tory Leader David Alward says.

The Progressive Conservatives will cancel planned tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners in an effort to balance the budget in four years, Tory Leader David Alward announced on Friday.

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From past experience, I know that if you cannot practice well between lessons it is almost better not to practice at all. Most children need an assistant in the form of an adoring adult in order to practice. A regular practice schedule is the best for small children. They grow to expect practice every day at the same time. Practice then takes on the quality of inevitability. It becomes part of the routine. I tell my students “Every day you brush your teeth, every day you practice.” One little boy proudly confessed that he never brushes his teeth!

Children also need to repeat what they already know. Repetition is the only way to learn something thoroughly. We forget that children learn gradually. They cannot produce perfection as they learn. Current thinking among physiologists such as Wilson is that we begin to learn to make complicated moves rather laboriously – working out the details step by step, making corrections when we observe our own mistakes, and consciously and deliberately establishing patterns of movements that eventually become less tentative and finally become smooth and secure. Dr Suzuki was famous for his saying ” Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill!” It is up to parents to continually find ways of making practice a joy. I found games with my own children worked and we counted repetitions until we got to 10,000. Needless to say this did not work as they got older and once they understood how a passage should be played and then played it well, couldn’t see the necessity for repetitions. Not every day, but most days, we managed to keep up the repetitions. Just think of walking and how many times a baby has to try and try again before they get it right and keep walking long after they get it right.

A good teacher will have the responsibility of establishing goals for the student’s lessons and these goals need to be specific and well understood by both the student and the parent. Goals that are specific , and reasonably hard but attainable, will produce much better performance than too easy goals or a general goal to do one’s best. I remember when my eldest daughter Stephanie was learning Minuet 2 by Bach and she had difficulty at age 4 getting her little fingers to play the arpeggio section to begin with. Even though the piece is a page long, I got her to only play the first seven notes, 100 times. I then asked her to close her eyes and while holding her violin to put her fingers in the correct positions on the fingerboard. We played a game guessing if her finger positions were individually correct before she checked them by playing singular notes. This helped with her confidence. I have to say, I tried the same method on my youngest daughter Imogen and twenty minutes into the practice on a hot January morning she flung both the violin and bow at me. I managed to catch it just in time. It took me several days to recover by which time I had learned not to push! What works with one doesn’t always work with another.

I think as a parent you need to know your children before you start an instrument with them. They are all different and they deserve your love first and foremost. Maria Montessori says ” The adult’s idea that freedom consists in minimizing duties and obligations must be rejected. The foundation of education must be based on the following facts: That the joy of the child is in accomplishing things great for his age; that the real satisfaction of the child is to give maximum effort to the task at hand; that happiness consists in well directed activity of body and mind in the way of excellence; and that true freedom has, as its objective, service to society and to mankind consistent with the progress and happiness of the individual. Emerson says ” The secret of education Lies in respecting the student” and Shakespeare said ” Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

When my son Miles was three, I decided to start him on piano. I held his elbow and his fingers and taught him how to play ‘twinkle twinkle little star’. I thought that if I teach him in the correct way by guiding his fingers to play each note “perfectly”, since he had never done it incorrectly, he will never learn how to play “badly”. From what I had read in all the teaching manuals, it seemed inevitable that he would fall into the pattern that I had established. By the way, psychologists cal this “external manipulation of the passive learner”. How wrong I was……after several weeks of “perfect” practice I let him give a mini-concert to his grand-parents at their house. Left to his own devices, he tried every “bad” method of using his fingers on the keys possible. I have since discovered that what I had engaged him in was “passive” practice and when he performed he proved how passive his learning had really been. The truth is you cannot teach a passive learner. According to Holding, 1965, ” Knowledge of the correct response is incomplete if there is no opportunity to define it against the alternatives. We cannot be said to understand “red” if we have never identified other colors.” This is why I constantly tell parents to take their children to live music events. This is why I started KINDERJAZZ. You can check us out at http://www.kinderjazz.com Children learn with all their senses and music needs to be in 3D. Children miss out on basic cognitive development without this experience.

About The Author

Christobel Llewellyn PhD is a music educator and mother of three. She runs a Big Band for children called KINDERJAZZ. You can purchase her children’s music CDs from http://www.kinderjazz.com and read more about how to motivate your children to keep practising and how important it is to get your children into music. Music is a fundamental part of education as it develops the right side of the brain which is sadly neglected in our current education system. It’s by far the most important part. Email me to find out why by going to the KINDERJAZZ website.

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Online Violin Lessons- Do Online Violin Lessons Mean The Death Of Violin Teachers?

Online violin lessons are the best thing that could happen to the violin community, at least as far as the student is concerned. If you haven’t yet heard of them, it’s not surprising. Generally people go about learning an instrument by calling up a local music school and asking if they offer private lessons for your instrument. When you go to meet your teacher, I very seriously doubt they will say, “I charge thirty dollars per half hour lesson, but at the same price you could master your instrument using online violin lessons and never have to pay me again.” If they did, they would ALL be out of a job! Unless you live next door to your violin teacher, you’ll pay several times more than that price just for the gas to get you to your lessons during the course of your music education. In this situation, ten times out of ten the opportunity for the student will be swept under the rug.

No violin teacher could make a living trying to keep up with such rates, but suppose they tried. Most aren’t of the teaching caliber you’ll find online. As a fair representation, let’s say traditional violin lessons run from about 20 to 100 dollars per half hour (sometimes slightly less from someone who teaches as a hobby or significantly more if you’re learning from someone who carries a lot of clout in the field); that would mean the average teacher charges 20% of what the master does. Applying this rate to online violin lessons would mean the average teacher would charge $6 to teach a student how to master the violin. Even if taking twenty at a time that’s not enough to pay the rent for one month, and he or she would be tied up for possibly years.

Why would I so fervently shout about the opportunity of online violin lessons if it’s going to be so harsh on violin teachers? The bottom line is I love music, so I choose the student’s side over the teacher’s. I’m sure there are many who would love to learn how to play violin, but can’t afford to get quality lessons, so they never learn. Other would-be violin players lack the time to learn how to play. Learning from home will free up some time for the student to play by eliminating the commute. I want to see more v
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iolinists, and there’s no longer a question of where to find the best lesson quality or if it fits your budget.

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Yahoo! Canada – Conservative Party

The Progressive Conservatives would cancel planned tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners in an effort to balance the New Brunswick budget in four years, Tory Leader David Alward says.

The Progressive Conservatives will cancel planned tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners in an effort to balance the budget in four years, Tory Leader David Alward announced on Friday.

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A parliamentary committee is hearing from a range of organizations and individuals on the federal government’s move to replace the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary survey.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants provinces to pay in future if they’re responsible for settlements such as the $130 million the federal government agreed to give AbitibiBowater for expropriated N.L. assets.

OTTAWA – The Harper government has adopted a deliberate strategy of hiding information from Canadians in order to advance a right-wing social and justice agenda, Liberals charge.

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INUVIK, N.W.T. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has posed for countless pictures and given several speeches across the north this week.

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Progressive Conservative Leader David Alward is again promising to appoint an energy commission to map the province’s energy strategy for the next decade if he wins the Sept. 27 election.

RESOLUTE, Nunavut – For navy diver Leading Seaman Dierdre Doiron, water is water.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has resumed his Arctic odyssey, finally reaching Resolute, Nunavut.

Membership in the Progressive Conservative Party of P.E.I. is on the rise with the leadership convention just over a month away, party officials say.

NORAD is downplaying an incident this week that saw two CF-18s shadow a pair of Russian military aircraft as they flew within 56 kilometres of Canadian soil.

OTTAWA (AFP) – Canada’s prime minister observed military maneuvers in the Arctic on Wednesday while touting sovereignty over the far north, one day after fighter jets chased Russian bombers along its northern frontier.

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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…

Pop Piano Online Learning Portal Launches

It is evident that pop piano lessons are much less common than lessons of the traditional type. However, there is a new online piano learning program that …  Read More…

Piano Amore! Launches Easy Piano Lessons Portal

Get in touch with your potential and learn piano online. Whatever your age or level, this just may be what you have been looking for. …  Read More…

Waltham & Newton community briefs 10/20

The Mockingbird Trio – Elizabeth Anker, contralto, Scott Woolweaver, viola, and John McDonald, composer and piano – play the All Newton Music School series …  Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.

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I really want to learn to play piano but im not really sure where to start. whats the best way to go about it?

(and dont say “get lessons dumb dumb!”).

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