As we head into the holiday season make plans to play music for family or to get your family and friends involved in singing carols or clapping or jingling along to violin tunes. You all work so hard year round studying music. This is a wonderful time of year to share your music with the people who mean the most to you and to start some musical traditions.
So many students have been figuring out Christmas Carols by ear on their violins. If there is a song you like and want to play on your violin, challenge yourself to try and figure it out or tell me about it in lesson and we can work on it together. We can play anything we want on our violins! There is always a way.
Congratulations to everyone on their performances at the Holiday Recital! I had a wonderful afternoon with everyone! I am so grateful for all the families who let me be a small part of their lives and allow me to do what I love, for my family who attended, my wonderful husband and our jolly Santa!
10 Things I Love About Group Class:
1. Everyone has a voice. Everyone has a chance to be heard and to share their opinions without judgement.
2. Even though most of us only see each other once a week, we play together as one, working toward a common goal.
3. Parental Involvement - whether in the audience or on the stage; your constant support means everything. You are all incredible!
4. Teenage Leadership - the power they have in positively influencing and motivating those who look up to them.
5. Mistakes are allowed. Keep working, keep learning.
6. We are respectful of everyone's position in the class. There is no competition. Our journey is our own and no one else's.
7. Listening - to see little ones who are known to have trouble sitting still, sit through advanced repertoire with ease, quietly listening or strumming their violins to the piece.
8. Play it, even if you don't know it - to see beginners make the decision to play along with a song they don't know in delight or to sit the next song out and listen. Yes, five year old's do choose to listen (well in group class anyway!)
9. Creativity - because mistakes are allowed, there is freedom to try new things without fear. Maybe it's that new harmony part you've been working on or a new technique. Magical things can happen through a simple suggestion (ex. our pizzicato rendition of twinkle with beautiful harmonies a few weeks ago was amazing. So many simple ideas are pondered in class and are brought to lesson to discuss and discover).
10. Group class helps us deal with the world - whether it's a distraction from our hectic work or school lives or an inner fear that we haven't been able to identify yet. Group class challenges us to do more and to be more then we think we are capable of. Facing the vulnerability of joining group class can be a challenge in it's self, but once we do, we are faced with an entirely different way to learn. A way for all ages and levels to learn together and from one another: The Suzuki way.
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