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| Author | Topic: Learning three instruments |
SueB
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7/8/2005 | posted: 7/8/2005 at 4:30:09 PM ET
I'd like to hear your opinions about learning three instruments. My daughter is 8, and learning piano, recorder, and now 'cello. I feel she probably ought to drop the recorder, but she absolutely doesn't want to. We are especially committed to the piano, but I am glad she is enjoying learning 'cello, as it will be a more sociable instrument for her, and she can join in chamber groups and orchestras soon. So far we are managing, but I find it quite a strain to put in enough practise on all three. She manages about five or six practises on the piano, and usually 3 or 4 on the other two instruments a week. But I sometimes think it has taken over our after school time too much and is more of a strain on her than she realises.
|  imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 7/8/2005 at 7:57:19 PM ET
I hope the child gets some outdoor time to explore the world, and some imagination time. There is a very good article in the Reader's Digest on this subject. I think 8 years old is too young for such a regimen of music.
I am a fragment of my imagination
|  Pete
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3/20/2005 | posted: 7/8/2005 at 8:05:35 PM ET
It certainly seems a lot to cope with.
Two is not unusual, and recorder is a very common classroom instrument which most kids can handle in conjunction with keyboards or guitar, but Cello seems a strange choice.
Above all, let her make her own decisions.
Take me to your Lieder...
| SueB
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7/8/2005 | posted: 7/11/2005 at 6:34:20 PM ET
Thanks for that... they have all been her choices - even 'cello! I can't see what is strange about it... ?!? She tried violin for one term, which was definitely not my idea, but decided she'd prefer the 'cello, as she felt you sit down in a more 'natural' position to play it. She seems to love playing it, as I said. Unfortunately they don't do recorder in her school, unless you pay for extra lessons in it. (They did it for one year in infants, but don't do it now they are in Juniors. I imagine it is lack of time in the curriculum and lack of a teacher to teach it too!) Anyway, I will work on the recorder not being taken so seriously, as a first step, I think, and maybe suggest she doesn't do grade exams in it, and just does it for fun.
She does get time to run and play etc. I think I am probably worrying unduly, and this is just a sympton of the end of term, when everything gets a bit frenetic! Roll on the summer holidays.
| Pete
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North Coast NSW, Australia
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3/20/2005 | posted: 7/11/2005 at 7:17:32 PM ET
Cello is an instrument rarely chosen by children, in my experience, but so much the better, of course, when she has chosen it herself.
Has she heard Dvorak's Cello Concerto yet?
Recorder may not be available in her present classroom situation not for lack of time but because it is not classed as a "serious"" instrument, and is used as an introduction to note reading and timing for younger children.
Take me to your Lieder...
|  trumpetgeek53
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7/20/2005 | posted: 7/20/2005 at 11:16:34 AM ET
If she really likes playing the three instruments then she should stick with it. I play the piano,guitar,trumpet,penny whistle, and soon i will start playing the tenor saxophone. So all in all i play 5 instruments. if she is not practicing enough of each instrument then she should have a schedule such as if she is doing really well on the piano and not to well on the recorder then she should practice more of the recorder. well that is my advice but you don't have to take it but it works for me and now I'm in the school band and in the school choir as the guitarist.
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