Time To Practice

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! 

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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:

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Drake’s website: kathrynbdrake.com

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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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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

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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 

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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

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

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We're excited to have Barbie Wong back on the podcast for a fun and helpful discussion about games in music practice. We discuss why games can help young musicians with practice and discuss 3 types of games to include in practice and specific examples for each of them. 

Links in this episode:

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

Barbie Wong’s website: https://Barbiewong.com

The Games Online Class can be found here: https://barbiewong.com/class/

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/ttpepisode56

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This week on the Time to Practice podcast I'm excited to be speaking with Dr. Hannah Murray. We talk about the important roles teachers have in their student’s lives, How her motivation changed from a young musician to her time at interlocken. We cover the benefit of movement as musicians and the importance of creating structure for students who need it as well as the importance of creating spaces where it’s safe to share how what we’re doing affects us, so that our teachers can help us find better ways. 

I feel like we just scratched the surface of what we could have talked about, so I’m excited to have you listen and also to invite Dr. Hannah Murray back so we can talk more. Enjoy! 

Links in this episode:

Dr. Hannah Murray’s website: https://www.activeviolinist.com/

Corpsonore website 

Find Hannah on Instagram  Corpsonore & Activeviolinist 

Hannah Murray’s ActiveViolinist website 

Youtube: The Virtuoso Music Academy.

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It’s easy to see and celebrate huge milestones along the way when our child is in music lessons. Milestones like book graduations are easy to spot, but what about all the hundreds of little milestones in between? 

In this season’s first solo episode, Christine Goodner shares 5 ways we can see our progress in music lessons from comparing recital videos from past years, lesson notes from the past and conversations to have with your teacher. The hope is you will find these ideas helpful and that putting them into action will help you feel encouraged as you see the progress that is happening, but may be hard to see! 

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This week on the Time to Practice podcast , I'm excited to be welcoming back Kimberley Wong: Suzuki Teacher and expert on helping families with home practice sessions. We had such an interesting conversation about frustrations and how they can show up for young music students as well as specific ways that adults supporting them can help. 

Links in this Episode: 

Kimberley Wong’s Linktree with all of her resources and ways to connect with her: https://linktr.ee/kimberleywongviolinstudio

Find blog post & Transcript for this episode here: https://www.Suzukitriangle.com/ttpepisode53

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