Suzuki students learn to read after they have begun to play.
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by Karen Zethmayr
To make good sound, and to enjoy playing, you need to be one with the instrument. As a reading teacher, I've found useful comparisons between learning to read words and learning to read music. What we do before we read is important. Reading teachers talk about "what the reader brings to the page."
If you have never walked in the woods with its smells and sounds, your reading of an adventure in the woods is not as rich as it would be with the experience to inform the words. When we know the sound and feel of playing rhythms and melodies, then the notation that represents what we hear, feel, and touch reach more deeply into our consciousness.
At the same time we are establishing good playing motion habits, we use some of our "away from the instrument time" to introduce reading readiness activities, according to the age of the beginner. Two such reading games are "Who Ran Away?" and "Rhythm Flash."
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Suzuki
is
Hands On
Education
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Letter Topics
Bow hold:
•Pencil
exercises I
•Pencil
exercises II
Left
hand strength and flexibility:
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Little Elephant
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Little Elephants Jumping on a Web
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Smallmotor "pick up" game
Position in Motion:
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built" violins with activities
Reading readiness:
"Who Ran Away?"
"Twinkle Rhythm Flash Cards"
Supplementary Music and Midis
Twinkle Rag
Daisy Daisy
Daisy sheet music
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