Practical Tips

Learning to sing or play an instrument is great fun, but it is also a discipline. This means that your child is learning new concepts and skills involved, requires a commitment to progress. If you Let's Play Music for a while ', you have undoubtedly heard your teacher that investing 15-20 minutes a day, five or six days a week is better than sporadic hours of practice. This is because the long-term memory and skills development ahead with efforts. Rememberall this information at school, before filling a test? I do not think so! Once the novelty wears off a bit 'of teaching music, it is quite natural for students to resist practice time. Why must concentrate on and let's face it: There is work! Here are some tips on how to effectively found over the years with our children and students:

Practice Tip # 1

Practice should be the space where the family activity occurs. It helps if you are withinEar-shot of your child, how to encourage only their practices but also because it prevents the child from feeling isolated. If the piano is in the basement, consider this a good time to determine the fold laundry while they do their scales.

Practice tip # 2

Make a routine of practice time. Families who have more success with practice those who choose a practice time and stick to it. Many parents find that 15 or 20 minutes before their childwill work very well on the bus, others, like the time after dinner. We also found this to be true. When we are all over the place where the practice is likely to encounter much resistance.

Practice Tip # 3

Finally, have fun with music! Make a game of it. The children want to play and learn their parents teachers under their direction. This may actually fuel interest. Hold regular family concerts, grandparents and other extended family inviteor friends for an evening of music with the child, as the act described. Serve refreshments and have fun! Your music is not in a vacuum, it must expand the teaching and the weekly practice schedule. The opportunity for students more authentic appreciation are, the more successful they are in their path.

These tips apply no matter what instrument you're studying, piano, guitar, drums or an instrument.