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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]
so… really they practice 3 times a week, sometimes twice a week. [/quote]
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. [/quote]

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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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