Diary of a Suzuki Parent

Term 2 - Week 10

29 November 2011

In these last two weeks still working on the violin fingering.....  D has moved up to the full bow hold using pencil grips to help.  Keeping eye on bowing wrist that it keeps rounded and not cocked up.  Learn how finger positioning is tone, semi tone, tone on the strings - that each key has a hand shape to it. 

Watch some of a DVD of a concert at the RCM by some of Sharron's students.  A 6 year old girl playing not just technically correctly but with musicianship.  A nice touch - is that the bow that the children are taught to do on the in breath at the beginning and end of each class and practice and to an audience - then becomes their signal as a leader when playing.  It was lovely to see the piano accompanist firmly in his place and led in to the music by the young violinists.