We are a Suzuki family.
Last winter I started the parent course with an area teacher to start Suzuki violin. It was a 12 week class in which I read theory and started to learn to play the violin. Morgan started officially mid-May. We tried to continue through the summer when we could. The beginning lessons in Suzuki are all variations on Twinkle Twinkle so students can start to learn variations on rhythm. The first video is her doing her face washes to learn bow holding as well as her starting to play Goody Goody Stop Stop which is 4 eights notes and 2 quarter notes
In August we received a letter from Morgan's teacher saying she was taking a hiatus until January. We scrambled to find anyone who would take a Suzuki kid and try to follow the program. Amazingly enough the NDSU Music Conservatory hired a new Suzuki teacher, Miss Sarah, (Sarah Lang, who happens to be our new minister at 1st Pres's wife!) She is AMAZING! Morgan adores her but is also a little bowled over by her exuberance. She is wanting to practice and now so it's not such a fight as it was with our old teacher. The second video is from just the past Sunday, she is now working on Dino(rest)saur with is quarter, quarter, rest,quarter.
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