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So, your child is going to learn an instrument. How do you handle that as a parent? How do you guide them to practice and to learn? Parents are always facing the challenge of helping and guiding each student with their music lessons. The following is a list of tips and techniques to help direct the parent, student and teacher to create a practical and educational learning environment.
Practicing Consistency
Create consistency with a steady practicing schedule. Students need consistency with their practicing schedule. What that means is that they should be touching their piano/instrument almost every day. There is always going to be days where they can't practice, but that should be the exception. It is similar to taking medicine; you don't take all of your medicine in one day. You take 2 pills a day for a certain period of time. You may miss 1 or 2 days, but the consistency is there. Here are some guidelines to help you.
a) Remind students to practice. It is similar to reminding a child to brush their teeth. Just remind them on a daily basis that it is time to practice. If you are able to get them to brush their teeth but not practice, you are not putting enough importance on practicing. If they do not practice, there is an equal punishment. For example, each day they don't practice, they don't get to play video games.
b) Make a practicing schedule where it corresponds with a daily activity. It can be anything from after diner, before bed, after school, before diner, or after their favorite TV show. Making a schedule with an event helps to remind everyone that it is time to practice. For example, everyday after spongebob, the student will practice.
c) Make the student commit to a certain amount of time. Even if that amount of time is 5 minutes a day, at least they are making the commitment. Besides, you will be surprised how long they will continue to stay at their piano/instrument after the 5 minutes is over. If they do commit to 5 minutes, DO NOT make them stay longer than that, let them discover that on their own. It is also important for them to pick the amount of time to practice, and it is important for them to stick to the schedule. Thats why a small amount of time is better. They need to understand that they will be there everyday. The point is to get them to their instrument everyday. Even if they are not getting anything out of it, at least they understand that they will be there everyday. As the weeks go by, and they are consistently staying at the piano/instrument, you can start raising that time. The amount of time does not matter at the beginning, it is only that they get there. I have had some students do 1 minute a day, and it worked great.
d) Make a checklist. With the help of your instructor, you can create a checklist for all of the items that need to be practiced. This way, as they are practicing, they can just check things off as they do it. The instructor can help in creating this. This is not necessary for all students. Some students will do better without a checklist.
Sitting in on the lesson
Sitting and listening in a lesson. Some parents and guardians like to sit and listen while a lesson is going on. While this may be important, at the beginning, for some students to feel comfortable, it is important to let the teacher and the student develop their own relationship. Eventually, the teacher and student should feel alone, although the parent or guardian can always be within the listening area.
Help Practicing
Helping a student to practice can be a great way to increase a student's ability to learn, but it can also create a situation where the student actually learns less then they normally would. Here are some guidelines to help a student practice.
a) Only help a student that asks for help. The students will become skilled at learning if they always do it on their own.
b) If you are helping the student practice, never give up the answers; always encourage them to figure it out on their own. Sometimes the parent or guardian will not even realize that they are giving up the answer, just by their gestures or mannerisms. I have seen parents do a slight raise of the eyebrows when the answer was right. The student knows the parent very well, and the slightest indication will give the student the answer. Make sure that they are correcting their own mistakes and it is not coming from something else.
c) Figuring out problems is a skill that can be learned. By letting the student figure out their own mistakes they will become skilled at learning.
d) It is bly encouraged to let the student make mistakes on their own, and practice the mistakes. Once a mistake is corrected, they will understand it better. Sometimes they will realize their own mistake after a couple of days. Even though it took a couple of days, it still gives the student a rewarding feeling. If they never have to figure anything out on their own, they will always be dependent on that person.
e) Students get very stressed out about making mistakes, but what they don't realize is that a mistake helps the teacher figure out what to teach next. If a student comes back from a week of practicing and they know everything, the teacher thinks it is time to move on to the next area. If that student never did anything on their own the whole week, they will know the work, but they just won't understand it. When the teacher moves on to the next area, it is expected that the foundation that was built the week before will be there. If it just appears to be there, through lack of learning on their own, then there is no foundation and the student will not understand the next area.
The Practicing Area
Make sure the practicing area is empty of any interruptions and disturbances. Students need time to concentrate on what they are doing. Be sure to turn off all TV's and radios. Make sure nobody is walking in and out of the practice room. All equipment that is needed for the lessons should be in perfect working order, so there is no mistakes. Make sure the student goes to the bathroom before practice time.
When to Quit
Commit to lessons for a certain period of time. Each student should commit to lessons for a certain amount of time. Whether it is six months or a year, a student needs to know that they are continuing no matter what. Too often a student will quit because of the stress of one lesson, sometimes created by lack of practicing. If a student has a bad lesson, it is important that he goes to the next lesson. The commitment time will regulate this, but backing out of a lesson too early will show the student that.
Conclusion
Encourage the student to play the pieces they are learning for you on a regular basis. Set up little concerts for friends and family to watch. Finally, when taking your student to a lesson, make sure everything is prepared for the teacher. All books and items should be ready for lessons.
Summary
Here is a checklist of all we talked about.
Practicing consistency
1) Remind them to practice
2) practice time should align with another daily activity
3) commit to a certain amount of time - 5 minutes a day - 1 minute a day - Let them pick how much
4) have a checklist of things to practice. Have them put a check overtime they do something.
Sitting in on a lesson
Sitting in a lesson should only be done sparingly.
Help practicing
1) Only help when the student asks
2) Never give them the answers, watch your body language for this.
3) let them figure it out, it is a skill they will get better at.
4) If you help them fix mistakes, they may become dependent on you.
5) Let them make mistakes, let the teacher fix the mistakes
The practicing area
The practicing area should be without distractions, and be filled with all the tools they need.
When to quit
Commit to a certain period of time, six months, month by month. It does not matter, just have a period of time.
You should have all you need to begin or continue your child's piano/instrument lessons. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Mike Desroches
Award winning composer and performer, Mike Desroches, was one of the founding members of Blooka, a Rock/Alternative band, which opened for such major bands as, Eminem, Stone Temple Pilots, Counting Crows, Live, 311, Jimmies Chicken Shack, Blues Traveler and The New York Islanders. He toured in the skynyrd legends tour featuring Legendary members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Artimus Pyle, Ed King, Jojo Billingsley, and Leslie Hawkins.. His bands have included prominent musicians such as Ryan Waters (Guitar player for Sade and Pink), John Micheli (Drummer for Meatloaf), and Mike Sorrentino (Drummer for Ritchie Blackmore). His music has been played on TV shows (Lights Out...FX) and various radio stations including, 102.7 WNEW's Opie and Anthony show, 92.7 WLIR, and his song "Lemon Lover hit ..20 on Hawaii's KTUH College Radio. His band Blooka, won the Icast.com unsigned band contest over more than 50,000 other entries.
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