Diary of a Suzuki Parent

Christmas holidays

14 January 2012

A long break in which to sustain the practice.  

The pluses: - we managed to practice most days.  Dad took a fair number of practices playing his violin with D so she had a bit of a break from me and lots of practice at playing with someone.  The rhythms and timing really improved - and it was really good fun and sounded good.  We also found some great sparkly Christmas stickers, and had a web card from Sharron that was played after every practice as an incentive.  

The minuses:- we feel like we have been on this plateau for a long time now (half a term plus the holiday) working on fingering and getting good tone and relaxing the fingers.  I struggle to vary the exercises so it all becomes rather repetitive.

We don't seem to make much progress - not from lack of D's hard work - but it is just difficult to learn.  However one mum said to me that just sustaining the level from one term to the next is the most important achievement so that you can move on again when classes recommence.