How much is your 2nd grader practicing her instrument if she plays classical

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Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Violin is very hard. You have to practice every day. AKA, only practice on the days you eat.

If your kid isn’t willing to focus and practice hard nearly every day, just have them take up an easier instrument (sax) when they are older at school.

IYO How much is the minimum daily practice and how much is TOO much?

Minimum is warm up (scales, sight reading)
Then each piece 3x, plus working on a "sticky" spot or new section from each piece.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Violin is very hard. You have to practice every day. AKA, only practice on the days you eat.

If your kid isn’t willing to focus and practice hard nearly every day, just have them take up an easier instrument (sax) when they are older at school.

That’s funny, my saxophone professor had a sign in their office “Eat only on the days you practice”. Should have said:

Practicing- it’s not just for violinists.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. Please don’t force your 7 yr old to practice more than once per week. What is wrong with you?

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My 4 year old practices 4 hours a day

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Dd is 8 and takes piano. Daily practice, usually we skip one day during the week. Some days 15 min some its 30. I sit with her when shes figuring out new pieces, help break down and remind her to play the hard parts more. I go clean while she is doing scales or repeating old things. Our piano teacher requires parent presence at lesson and shows what DD needs to learn and repeat at home.

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Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week.

Sorry meant to say they take 2-3 days off every week

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week.

Your math is off. That would be practicing 5x a week + 1 lesson + 1 day off pass = 7 days. So playing 6x a week, but practicing 5-6x a week.

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My kids did violin and cello (one each). We woke up early to do practice every day. (If we waited til after school or evening, it might not get done.) I sat with them and guided during practice until they were in middle school when they were more independent.
It's true that there's not much point in taking lessons if you're not going to practice and honestly, it's super frustrating if you don't practice because you don't get any better and then you don't enjoy it.
Did they always LOVE practice? No, but they understood that it was a part of our day and they did enjoy playing their instruments.
They are college students now and no longer play violin and cello (except occasionally for their own pleasure) but both are VERY musical and have been able to pick up other instruments easily.

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second grader, piano since K. The teacher requires practice every day at least as long as class time, so in K he had 30 min lesson, so 30 min practice every day, now he is having hour long lessons, he should practice one hour every day.

Of course he has other activities, it is hard to keep one hour every day. On a sport night we might only try 30 min.

Warming up scales and finger practice takes at least 10 min. Then getting into weekly assignments and sometimes diddling around. The kid got into it only after 20 min.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week.

They practice on average 27 days per month, “practice” includes 45 minute lessons twice per month. Some months they don’t use 5 days off and practice closer to 30 days, other months they do 25. It varies how many off days they use but they get 5 per month if they want to use them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week.

They practice on average 27 days per month, “practice” includes 45 minute lessons twice per month. Some months they don’t use 5 days off and practice closer to 30 days, other months they do 25. It varies how many off days they use but they get 5 per month if they want to use them.

Lessons only twice a month? I’ve never heard of that. Is that teacher recommended or because of driving distance? If you don’t mind me asking

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stfu with violin snobs

sorry do you play viola

Lol. Do you also watch 2 set violin? Did not know about the animosity between violins and violas until then.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 minutes daily minimum, usually they do more. 5 minutes warm up doing whatever, 10 minutes semi-supervised actual work, then leave them to play whatever for however long they want. They get 5 day off passes a month. You don’t learn much practicing once a week.

Does 5 day off passes apply to lesson days? or do they have lesson days off from practice anyway?

I consider lessons a form of practice at that age, so no extra practice required after lessons. They don’t use day off passes to skip lessons just individual practice. It keeps them practicing 5-6 days a week which is what I’m going for but gives them some say in which days they skip.

so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week.

They practice on average 27 days per month, “practice” includes 45 minute lessons twice per month. Some months they don’t use 5 days off and practice closer to 30 days, other months they do 25. It varies how many off days they use but they get 5 per month if they want to use them.

Lessons only twice a month? I’ve never heard of that. Is that teacher recommended or because of driving distance? If you don’t mind me asking

Just what they had available, will move to weekly over the summer. Not ideal but sometimes you take what you can get when you can get it.

[Anonymous]

One thing to note about violin is that it can be physically taxing. After about 20 minutes of continuous playing, my child complains about a sore hand or neck.
She practices on average 4 days a week for 15-20 min.