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By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org You can also Watch / Listen to the Live HERE Everyone is feeling tired and ready for a break this time of year. Are you wanting to slow down and spend time with family for the holidays? Me too! You have worked so hard establishing a daily routine to include practicing this year. The holidays don’t just sabotage our diets, they can also affect our daily routines and daily practice is often missed. What to do? Everyone is di

By Christy | The Practicing Pro www.ScotiaSuzuki.org Check out the third and last article in the metronome blog series!. 8 Reasons Why Your Metronome is Your Friend What are My Favorite Metronomes and Why I Like Them and now 6 Fun Ways to Use Your Metronome! 1) My favorite way to use my metronome is to make something faster effortlessly and quickly! A metronome makes playing faster and faster PERFECTLY, and not a task at all but fun! I use a metronome chart, or write the nu

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