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    15 More Strategies for Practicing with Young Musicians
    15 More Strategies for Practicing with Young Musicians
    15 More Strategies for Practicing with Young Musicians
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    15 More Strategies for Practicing with Young Musicians

    By Danielle Gomez

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    There are two sides to a young child’s musical development. One side involves the actual activities that are done during the practice. This is the physical practice. The other side to practicing is mental development. Enjoyment of music is something that is cultured over a prolonged period of time. The purpose of this booklet is to present fifteen different strategies or adjustments you can make to your at-home practice in order to make the whole process smoother. This particular booklet will focus on the external factors of at-home practice.

    This manual is approximately 5,300 words long.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDanielle Gomez
    Release dateFeb 27, 2014
    ISBN9781310456466
    15 More Strategies for Practicing with Young Musicians
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    Danielle Gomez

    Danielle Gomez is a certified violin and viola teacher and a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She teaches violin and viola in Encinitas, CA and is the Director of the violin program at Santa Fe Montessori School.

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      15 More Strategies for Practicing with Young Musicians - Danielle Gomez

      Introduction

      Music has a way of teaching life lessons along the journey. My goal for all of my students is to instill in them a love of music. It makes no difference to me if they go on to become performance majors in college. I know that by going through the process, the struggle, of learning such a complex task they are getting something out of their lessons.

      Practicing is not naturally fun. Elements of it can be made fun but there will eventually come a time when it just boils down to tedious work. Ironically, it is this tedious work that enables us to have fun with our instruments later on.

      Dislike of practicing is not the same thing as dislike of the instrument. With a few exceptions, most young students are not mature enough to form a reasonable opinion about their instrument. Therefore, it is a waste of effort to quit one instrument and start up something else with the hope that the student will have greater success with the new instrument. Starting instrument after instrument accomplishes nothing. What needs to happen is an examination of the true source of the issues: practicing.

      There are two sides to a young child’s musical development. One side involves the actual activities that are done during the practice. For example, thinking of ways to make the child sit or stand with a certain posture for a prolonged period of time. This is the physical practice. The other side to practicing is mental development. Enjoyment of music is something that is cultured over a

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