How to Fit In
Always keep in mind that your support is a key element in your child‘s success with music study.
Schedule Practice Times
Music achievement requires effort over a period of time. You can help your child by:
- Providing a quiet place in which to practice
- Remaining nearby during practice times as often as possible
- Scheduling a consistant, daily time for practice
- Praising your child‘s efforts and achievements
What To Do
To give your child the best possible support, you should:
- Encourage your child to play for family and friends
- Offer compliments and encouragement regularly
- Expose your child to a wide variety of music, including concerts and recitals
- Encourage your child to talk to you about his or her lessons
- Make sure your child‘s instrument is in working order
- Allow your child to play many pieces of music, not just the study pieces
- Listen to your child practice and acknowledge improvement
- Help build a personal music library
- Try to get your child to make a minimum two year commitment to his or her music studies
What Not To Do
Your child‘s musical progress will be enhanced if you:
- Don‘t use practice as punishment
- Don‘t insist that your child play for others when he or she doesn‘t want to
- Don‘t ridicule or make fun or less than perfect playing
- Don‘t apologize to others for a less than perfect performance
- Don‘t start your child on an instrument that is in poor working order or condition
- Don‘t expect rapid progress and development in the beginning
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