Wishing all of our listeners a Happy New Year this week with a best of Episode from Cellist, Educator, and Suzuki Association of the America's teacher trainer  Dr. Shu-Yi Schott who originally came on the podcast in episode 7. 

You can find the transcript and blog post for this episode here: https://suzukitriangle.com/ttpepisode7/

Find Shu-Yi Scott’s Website: http://www.shuyicello.com/

Find Christine on Instagram @SuzukiTriangle

Live Talk 1/18/25 with Christine about “Working with our Child’s Strengths in the Practice Room” Sign up to attend Here

Christine's Next Quarterly Online Talk on January 18th 

Read this episode in article format HERE

Musical Next Community with Barbie Wong 

This week on the Time to Practice Podcast we're having a conversation with Flutist, Music Educator, and author Meret Bitticks. 

In our conversation we talk about her journey as a musician and what practice looked like for her when she started in middle school band and how it changed over the years, making our practice progress tangible, and about practice from teacher, parent and student perspective. 

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did! 

Links in this Episode: 

Meret Bitticks' Website: http://www.fleautiful.com

Find the print version of Meret’s book Here: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Young-Flutists-Educators-Guide/dp/1639911170

FInd Meret Bitticks' book in ebook format Here: https://fflat-books.com/product/working-with-young-flutists/

Find the Transcript HERE: https://www.Suzukitriangle.com/ttpepisode64

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Live Talk 1/18/25 with Christine about “Working with our Child’s Strengths in the Practice Room” Sign up to attend Here

Barbie Wong and I recently had an interesting discussion on the topic of rewards and incentives that we recorded for the Time to Practice podcast, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts. You can join us in the Music Nest community for ongoing discussions, live monthly meetings, and coming in January a fun 30 day practice challenge!

We want to preface this discussion by acknowledging that there are many, very valid, opinions on this topic and we invite you listen to some of our ideas and the ways we have wrestled with this topic ourselves and want to acknowledge whatever you decide for your own family, or teaching practices, is totally up to you what you decide to do related to rewards and incentives. It is perfectly fine to disagree with us and we respect everyone's position on this hot button topic.

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Transcript & blog post here: https://www.SuzukiTriangle.com/TTPEpisode63

To the parents, caregivers, grandparents and everyone who supports young music students in home practice:

To the teachers and music educators: 

This week's short little episode is a note of encouragement from me to you. 

What you do matters! 

You can read this episode in written form HERE

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In this week’s episode we’re speaking with Kathryn Drake. Drake is a violin teacher, music educator and co-director of Ithaca Suzuki Music Education in Ithaca, New York. As I got this episode ready to share with you and revisited our conversation, I found our conversation so inspiring and honestly so grounding - I think you too will appreciate what they have to say about music practice, how everything in life is related can impact our music, how their background in Zen meditation influences how they think about music practice, and the importance of knowing when to stop practicing. Enjoy!

Links in this episode:

Connect with Drake on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kbdrakevln/

Drake’s website: kathrynbdrake.com

Transcript and show notes can be found HERE

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This episode is brought to you by Christine’s book: Music Practice Makeover

This week we are hearing from Eloise Hellyer in part two of our series with her this month. Eloise shares many thoughts on the sacred responsibility that is teaching, the impact teachers have on their students, and what she learned from her many interviews with professional musicians. Enjoy! 

Links in this episode:

Last week’s part 1 episode with Eloise Hellyer

Transcript and show notes can be found HERE

Eloise’s Blog: Violin Teacher’s Blog

Eloise Hellyer’s book 1 Teaches 2 Learn: Private Music Teaching and You

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You can support the podcast by sharing this episode with a friend or family in your music program. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss any episodes, and by rating and reviewing the podcast if you're enjoying it. 

Have a great week everyone! 

Today we’re speaking with Eloise Hellyer - Eloise is a violin teacher who lives and teaches in Italy, is author of the Book 1 Teaches, 2 Learn: Private Teaching and You and violinteachersblogdotcom

In this conversation, we talk about Eloise’s experience practicing with and teaching her own children, the importance of music teachers, and what she has learned from decades of teaching as well as numerous interviews she has conducted with performing violinists, and I especially love her message that time in music lessons, is never time wasted. 

 We had such an interesting discussion and it was a bit longer than usual, and rather than cut any of it, I’ll be bringing it to you in a two part series - half this week, half next week. 

 I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did! 

Links from this Episode: 

Eloise's Blog: Violin Teacher's Blog

Eloise Hellyer's book 1 Teaches 2 Learn: Private Music Teaching and You

Join Christine for a Time to Practice peptalk this Friday 11/1/24 

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This week on the Time to Practice podcast I am sharing expert practice tips from our guests on the show who we heard from in early 2024. 

Each week I ask our guests the question: "If you could leave listeners with one tip about music practice this week, what would it be?" 

These tips are too good not to share in a format that's easy to listen to and I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed putting them together with you in mind. 

If you missed any of these episodes in their long-form format you can find them below: 

Musicality & Joy from the Beginning with Crystal Boyack: Episode 39

Playing the Long Game with Susanna Klein;Episode 41

Leading with Love First with Barbie Wong: Episode 43

The Parent-Child Relationship in Music Practice with Alan Duncan: Episode 44

Making Great Music with Ease with Jennifer Roig-Francoli: Episode 46 

Supporting Teens & Approaching Practice with Gratitude with Amy Beth Horman: 

Episode 48 & Episode 49

Unlocking What's Possible with Christopher Maloney of Practice Warriors: Episode 50 

Connect with Christine: 

Looking for more support, conversation and community? Join Christine and Barbie Wong in the Musical Nest community: https://barbiewong.com/community/

Connect with Christine on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/suzukitriangle

This week's we're speaking with Leslie Thackeray: violin teacher, parent, and owner of The Practice Shoppe (one of my favorite resources for practice games).

We talk about when to know it's time to add creative element to practice like a game or short-term project, the importance of performance opportunities, and how to help with motivation, which may be unique for each student. 

Links in this episode:

The Practice Shoppe Website

From this episode: The bead counter that started it all, Practice Bingo Cards, and one of Christine’s favorites: Practice Dice

Find the Practice Shoppe online on Facebook & Instagram 

Leslie Thackeray’s Scale Book

The launch event for the Musical Nest Community is this Saturday: Sign up to attend here

Learn more about the community that Christine & Barbie are starting and/or join the waitlist: https://barbiewong.com/community/

Find blog post & Transcript for this episode here: https://www.Suzukitriangle.com/ttpepisode57

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