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Listening like a Maniac

Renee — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:36:20 +0000

The Parents as Partners Online course put on by The Suzuki Association of the Americas has started and I have already been inspired! One of the videos sent on Monday is titled ‘listening like a maniac’. In a nutshell, what this teacher (and Suzuki parent) is suggesting, is to create a playlist (or just use the ‘repeat one’ function), and listen to 3 pieces each 10 times in a row. These pieces are the working piece, and 2 following.

To me, this sounds refreshing. As a parent, I realize it is difficult – but I am very willing to put in the effort to set this up and do all of the extra listening along with my daughter. I still remember learning Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a short amount of time when I was about 14. I was amazed at how EASY it was to play even the most difficult passages. All I listened to for weeks was this concerto – and I had it playing all the time – in the car, in my room, in the kitchen, on my disc-man, wherever I was, this concerto was with me.

So – I am accepting the listening like a maniac challenge. Both for my daughter’s violin pieces, as well as for the pieces that I am learning on violin.

Week 1 will include Twinkle A 10x, Twinkle B 10x and Twinkle C 10x for K, and for me it will be Allegretto, Andantino and Etude. Here we go!

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Renee — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:25:22 +0000

Kindermusik has a neat website where you can download your class music, but you can also redeem credits to purchase new music!
It’s definitely worth checking out, especially if you need some fun music to listen to throughout the day!

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Parents as Partners

Renee — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:31:31 +0000

This is so cool, I definitely have to pass on the info!

Suzuki Association of the Americas is hosting Parents as Partners online. What a neat idea, and so wonderful for all the Suzuki families and teachers out there! What I’m getting from this is it will be a bunch of videos that will uplift the parents, and give us all of the answers. And as for me as a teacher – motivation and ideas in January – Thank you!

I’ll be there, and so will some of the parents from my piano studio.

Thanks SAA!

Check out their flyer to see more about it.