Sit in, practice, listen
Your part, in three parts
You do not need to read music or play anything. The teacher shows you what to do, and your child learns most from watching you.
Sit in
You are in the room for every lesson, with a notebook or a phone. The teacher talks to you as much as to your child at first, so you know how to hold the bow, what a good sound is and what to say at home.
A chair beside your child
Notes for the week
Questions at the end
Practice at home
A few minutes at the same time every day, with you beside your child. You are the practice partner: you remind, you notice and you celebrate the small things.
Short and regular
The same time each day
Old pieces and new ones
Listen
Children learn pieces by hearing them over and over, as they learned to talk. The teacher gives you the recording for the next piece. Play it while your child plays, eats or rides in the car.
Before the piece is taught
At home and in the car
Until it is a tune they know
A week at home
What a good week looks like
There is no perfect week. This is the shape we hope for.
Listen every day
The recording plays while your child does something else, and nobody has to pay attention.
Practice a little
Ten minutes, with you beside them. Stop while it is still fun.
Play the old pieces
One old piece each day, because the pieces they know well are the ones that make a new one easy.
Write down what was hard
A line in your notebook for the teacher. It is a good way to start the next lesson.
See a lesson for yourself
Come to a first visit, sit beside the teacher and ask whatever you would like to ask.