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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. My child is at Level 3 at Levine. Should she really be practicing 1-2 hours per day? PP, how does your 8 year old find time for that after school? We have homework daily that can take 15 minutes - 1 hour. Piano, dinner, bath, bed by 8:15. My kids enjoy dinners and do take their time with that and they can lollygag in the shower. But what do we cut out. Here is what a typical afternoon looks like.

3:45-4: arrive home, unpack, wash up.
4-4:45: snack and homework. Sometimes this can go on until 5:15. 
4:45-5:30: piano
5:30-6: shower
6-7: dinner
7-8: brush teeth, read
8:15 lights out

To get more time in for piano, we'd need to cut out some dinner togetherness or some reading. We also can't make this schedule work on afternoons where a friend comes over. And I still think that that should happen. How does your 8 year old get 1-2 hours of practice in? I am genuinely interested not being snarky.

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Not the PP but that is too much time practicing. You should be doing 45 mins tops by age 12 so at age 8, unless you're genuinely a prodigy you should be doing 30 mins tops.[/quote]

I completely agree. Practising for 1-2 hours is insane for an 8-year old. My DD is almost  nine, she plays piano at a very high standard for her age, she takes exams and takes part in competitions.  Her teacher is a graduate of one of the  most prestigious conservatoires in the world and has 35 years of teaching experience. In the beginning, when DD was six, the teacher told me that the most efficient way to practise is play for 15 minutes, take a real break, then play for another 15 min. Now that DD is older we practise for 45 minutes with a break after the first 25 min. Practice is about quality, not quantity. You can accomplish a lot with short, efficient practice sessions. [/quote]

Thank you for this view. Would you share your teacher's name? 
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