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“If you practice something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you practice something fast, you forget it fast” – Itzhak Perlman
"Only practice on the days you eat." - Dr. Suzuki
Practice Tip:
“Be Goal Oriented!”
If you’re like me, you can become easily distracted when playing your instrument; there are so many neat things it can do, so many beautiful tunes to play. However, to make real progress, you may want to help yourself stay focused by setting goals for each practice session. These should be small‐scale skills that you think you can accomplish in a short period of time (keep my thumb curled away from my hand in my bow hold; master the rhythms between measures 56 and 63). Don’t let your practice session end until you’ve met that goal (that’s why you keep it small!) If you have time, try another goal. And of course, don’t forget to allow yourself time at the end for that free exploration; any good dinner is followed by a good dessert!
Practicing and Commitment
Welcome back! As your child’s strings teacher, I am committed to providing the best possible instruction for your child. I am also committed to helping your child become a productive member of a team, develop as a musician and as a person, enjoy enriching and rewarding experiences, and to complete your students elementary strings entire program in preparation for middle school, high school and beyond. These goals can be met only with both parental and student commitment. This means diligent, conscientious practice, and faithful attendance at lessons, rehearsals and performances.
Frequent repetition is necessary for the reinforcement of muscle memory. For this reason, my program goal is for every student to practice four days a week. The length of practice sessions varies by grade: fourth graders should practice 10 or 15 minutes daily, fifth graders for 15 minutes and sixth graders for 20 minutes.
This One Tip Will Help You Practice More
OK, we've all seen headlines like this that turn out to be less than helpful. But, it turns out that there really is one simple thing that you can do to help increase the amount of time you or your child spends practicing!
In our experience, those students who leave their instruments out of the case and ready to play practice much more often. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is get the instrument out of the case and even five minutes of practice can be valuable. And often that five minutes may turn into 10 or 15 as you or your child start to get into it.
You can leave your violin sitting on a table or dresser, hanging on the wall or anywhere else that it is safe. Cellos can be placed in a special cello stand or safely in the corner. As long as there's no danger of something falling or pet knocking it over, it should be fine! If you have enough space, you may even want to hang your violin on the wall. If you study piano, leave your music open on the piano so you see it every time you walk by.
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