Practicing & Playlists
Incentives and Prizes
Wondering what your philosophy is regarding the use of incentives/prizes and if any of you use incentive systems for your students. If so, what they are? For example, weekly rewards/points/stickers for certain things (what do they need to show/accomplish?) and/or a bigger reward down the…
32 day Challenge Prizes
I am wondering if anyone has any ideas for prizes for the completion of the 32-day challenge? It seems like it would be easy to ”overdo” just as it might be easy enough to underplay and not give ‘enough’ of a prize. I am open…
Processing Patterns
Just wanted to share an experience I had with my daughter. She was going through her Playlist and had trouble recalling a small section of Dog?. She tried to figure it out but no luck. Later on that day (whilst I was driving and she…
Young Child Who Will Not Practice
I need some advice concerning one of my young students. She is one of my favorite students. She has been with me for a year, and has done wonderful for the most part. She catches on real easily and carries out the pieces slowly and…
Using Parents as a Fun Incentive
I have a shared lesson of a boy and a girl. The girl practices religiously but the boy doesn’t like attempting anything unless he knows it will be perfect, he was losing heart and practicing less. The mothers of these 2 children had always attended…
practice, teaching how to practice, Jackson Blues, leaving early
I am sensing that my most of my students don’t practice ‘well’. While they do take time to ‘run through’ their pieces, they seem to lack the skills of knowing how to practice. For example, with Jackson Blues, they might play it with big hesitations…
Students’ Playing Deteriorating
I have noticed with a number of my students that when they have first learned a song, they play it well; i.e. clean, mistake-free, musical, etc. Then when it becomes a part of the playlist and they play it repeatedly over a period of time…
Parent Struggling with Practice Time
I have a mom having problems working with her 6 year old (almost 7) in practicing the songs correctly. She has been taking for 11 weeks now, and missed a few weeks at about 3 and 4, and still hasn’t caught up to the other…
New Student Struggling
The mother of a 6-yr-old that recently began lessons called me this evening and said that every day at home practice has been a struggle with her child throwing a tantrum or crying every time. When I asked her if it seems to hard for…
New Student Frustrated Already
So, I just recently signed up a 6 year old soon-to-be seven year old. She has had one lesson… and I got a phone call from her mom today stating that, her daughter had been getting frustrated. Putting her head down on the keyboard, and…