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By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org What do you love about your metronome? Is there anything you don't like? Let me share with you all about metronomes, which is my favorite one, and why! There are two types of metronomes. Digital - electronic Analog - that’s the one with a weight on the pendulum arm that you move up and down to change the speed. It’s the classic kind that we think of in our mind when you say the word metronome. Digital or Analog I personall

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org A fun and easy way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your kids this year is to check out this Practice or Listening Practicing chart for kids! Listen to your Suzuki CD for the Suzuki Book (or songs) you are presently working on 10 times or for 10 days. Check off 10 hearts for a Valentine’s treat! Learning music through the Suzuki Method can be compared to learning a language. Before you begin speaking, it is very import

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org My daughter had a teacher when she was young who would make a big ceremony of using the metronome for the first time. She would ask you to bring it to your lesson where she would admire it and then ask you what its name was. When the child replied “it doesn’t have one” or laughed at giving it a name, the teacher would make a drawn-out explanation about how important their metronome was, how it was their DEAR friend and it

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org Here is a fun Christmas "Play-by-Ear" and Charades activity that you can use for your practicing! You can play it as a family activity or with your practicing parent. How to Play: Find your level: - Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced Download the cards for your level (see below) and cut them out along the dotted lines. Fold each card and put it in a hat or bowl. Randomly pick a card which will tell you which Christmas so

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org You may be asking yourself, how do I fit in time to practice this week, or the next, or the next...maybe we’ll just wait until January. Well I’m here to tell you DON’T WAIT! Right now is the PERFECT time for some amazing practices and I have lot’s of ideas for you on how! Everyone is different Some players work so hard every day during the regular school months that a much-needed break in all areas of your life might be ju

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org Are snowflakes all unique? Yes, they are! Each ice crystal takes a different path to fall to the ground and its shape changes and grows as it’s falling. It twirls and swirls on its journey towards the earth and along the way it bumps into other molecules that will freeze to it and make it bigger! So each snowflake looks different and they’re also different sizes. However, there is something that all snowflakes have in co

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org Why is it that children just can't stop playing a video game? Did you know that we can use the knowledge of video games in our home music practice sessions and music lessons? We can use the exact same strategies in both! Super Mario Effect Have you heard of the Super Mario effect? There was a study done by Mark Robber where he looked at how to motivate people to use the Super Mario video game. He had 2 games that were al

October 1st brings a shift in the season as Fall shows up and Spooky season begins! Spice up your practicing with this ghost activity!