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It's More Than the Violin
By Elizabeth FaidleyMusic
It's More Than the Violin episodes
- Welcome to 'It's More Than the Violin'
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.
Hosted by Elizabeth Faidley, a violin teacher with 26 years of experience and thousands of students and teachers behind her, It's More Than The Violin explores everything that happens when you try to help a child grow through music.
Because teaching violin is never just about teaching violin. It's about children, parents, practicing, fear, confidence, talent, motivation, adolescence, and education—all the wonderful, ridiculous, and complicated things that come with the territory.
Each episode digs into how children actually learn music: early childhood and adolescent education, practicing, motivation, anxiety, performance, and what happens as a child's relationship with music changes over time. Whether you're a parent, a teacher, or simply someone who cares about how kids grow, this podcast is for anyone who suspects that the lessons learned at the music stand reach far beyond it.
Find Elizabeth here:
Website
https://www.elizabethfaidley.com/
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@FaidleyStudio
Podcast
https://rss.com/podcasts/its-more-than-the-violin/
2 min
About It's More Than the Violin
From the publisher's feed
Hosted by world-renowned violin pedagogue Elizabeth Faidley, It’s More Than the Violin is about what actually happens when you spend 26 years teaching children music.
Spoiler: very little of…
it is just about the violin.
Yes, there are scales, concertos, auditions, competitions, crooked bows, collapsing wrists, and an absolutely unreasonable amount of time spent discussing someone’s pinky. But teaching a child to play an instrument means teaching a child, and children come with confidence, fear, ambition, boredom, perfectionism, parents, adolescence, anxiety, enormous feelings, questionable practice habits, and the occasional complete meltdown over four measures of Bach.
Drawing on more than two decades of teaching students and mentoring teachers around the world, Elizabeth talks about how children actually learn, why some practice and some absolutely do not, what motivation really looks like, what happens when talented kids become teenagers, and how parents can help without making everyone insane.
There will be stories, psychology, education, opinions acquired the hard way, and probably more discussion of children’s thumbs than any podcast reasonably needs.