How do the pros remember all that stuff? They "cheated," they practiced! (It's a little like getting an A because you "cheated" and read the whole chapter.) Another name for practice is "doing it a lot." If you ride a bike well, you do it a lot.
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Graduating Is for Wimps!
When you learn a piece and get a sticker on the page, that sticker won't make the piece stick. What makes it stick is playing it, now that you've learned it, not "graduating" and forgetting it. Group sessions are a chance to play it with other kids and see if you can signal to each other in secret musician's code to tell each other how you want to play it. (Also a chance to hear other kids playing the pieces you will soon be learning.) Playing for grandparents is an amazingly cool greeting card. Now that you know it, you can play with it, as well as just playing it.
A Different Set of Stickers
When one of my students learns a piece well enough that we can charge into the next one in the book, I give them a "driver's license" for that piece. That gives them permission to play it. A lot. Anywhere. Without restriction or corrective lenses. If they can teach Mom how to play it, they get a teacher's license. If they play it in a program for an audience, they get a gig sticker, the more pasted on that page, the better. For the next piece they get a learner's permit. I do occasionally have to give speeding tickets.
Click here if you would like to download a printable set of "alternative" motivational stickers. You can get letter sized printable sticker media at office supply stores. These stickers are laid out for easy straight line cutting.
If you would like to receive notification as new Suzuki resources are added to this site, you can send an email to grandma@grandmaskite.com. Your email will not be sold, shared, traded, or used for any other purpose than that which you requested. As it turns out, I have been adding a topic in a parent letter about once a month for my own Suzuki families.Pencil exercises, set one for bow hold
Pencil exercises, set two for bow hold
One Little Elephant (left finger strength and flexibility)
Four Little Elephants Jumping on a Web (left finger naming, strength and flexibility)
Left hand number card "pick up" game
"Home built" violins and ways to use them in group sessions
Reading readiness game "Who Ran Away?"
Reading readiness game "Rhythm Flash "
"Reading Readiness in Music"Supplementary Music and Midis
Twinkle Rag – a twinkle variation with a new twist on half of the rhythm in Variations A and D. Same four sixteenth notes in a ragtime setting
Daisy Daisy uses a three four twist on "Mississippi without the hot dog." The whole accompaniment is open D and G. The song and bass line can be played as a violin / 'cello duet or on the piano.
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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:
•"Home
built" violins with activities
Reading readiness:
"Who Ran Away?"
"Twinkle Rhythm Flash Cards"
Supplementary Music and Midis
Twinkle Rag
Daisy Daisy
Daisy sheet music
Email
Karen Zethmayr grandma@grandmaskite.com
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