Practicing

Requirements: A minimum of 30 minutes practice/6 days per week is expected (7 days per week is where real progress takes place). Please understand that 30 minutes is where we begin, and that as the parent, you will need to monitor this in the early years. With advancement in literature and maturity, each student will be asked to increase practice time. Please refer to the graph below for more information.

A 100’s Chart may be assigned to a student which will promote the practice of review and repetition of one or more pieces in the Suzuki Literature.

Listening to the book volume recordings is essential in the Suzuki approach and the student’s ear training development.  It is expected to listen to the Suzuki recordings (review, current and preview pieces and/or volumes) every day.  This will assist the learning process faster as the student continues to work through the book volumes and beyond. Students will have a listening jar in which beads are tallied based on the days the student listens to the recordings.  The top 3 listeners receive an end of semester reward.  Recordings are available with book volume purchases, iTunes or other related media sources.

According to a 2013 report on NPR, there are 10 ways to optimize your practice session!

Tsioulcas, A. (2013, September 3). 10 Easy Ways To Optimize Your Music Practice. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2013/09/03/216906386/10-easy-ways-to-optimize-your-music-practice.