One of the best choices for spending good time during the summer vacations is to begin with violin lessons. Your daughter may become the next Vanessa Mae! The famous violinist believes that playing a violin is a physical art.
You can follow the popular and successful Suzuki method created for children that listen to a good music from the very first day of their life. Such kids will continue loving this kind of music when they become teenagers and enter puberty. The sensitivity, endurance and discipline of kids who play a musical instrument are developed on a daily basis and they learn how to express themselves with the music they play. Shinichi Suzuki, the author of this method, believes that this way the child develops a beautiful heart.
Although there are many other methods that might be used for student violin lessons, this is a special instrument that requires some special abilities that cannot be developed overnight. To learn to play well, the child should follow well-structured program that slowly adds new steps in accordance with the child's progress. The good news is that in order to play a violin, your kid is not required to have an inherent talent. The opinion of the Shinichi Suzuki, who is a Japanese violinist, is that particularly every child can learn whatever he wants if he is placed in appropriate environment. Suzuki believes that every child can become a musician, if the lessons are made interesting for him and are made to suit his intellect.
The aim of Suzuki student violin lessons is not only to teach music, they are aimed at child musical and sound development, and even at forming the character of the student. The student is encouraged to listen to the music and not only read it as musical notes. The child should be exposed to good music as much as possible by attending different music concerts and other events. The beginner will not be tested to find out if he or she is appropriate for this instrument or not, like some other music training methods do. Both individual as well as group practice is encouraged to make child more sociable and opened to others.
There are some other methods that can be used to learn violin too. Except for popular private lessons, the modern technologies made it possible to take online or DVD lessons as well. If you do not like Suzuki method, you might pick some of the methods that find to be the most appropriate for your child.
For example, online lessons are considered to be more self-tutoring, as the child needs to follow web instructions. There are different advices available online, such as how to tune your violin, etc. The only problem of this learning method is that the child is going to learn by the principle of trial and error. DVDs offer another method to learn violin that is also non-personal. This makes the learning process long and complicated, so finally the child loses an interest and motivation and quit.
Probably the best of these three methods is choosing a private violin teacher for your child. The tutor is going to show his students the proper way they should hold the violin and bow, in addition to some other tricks that will be helpful to the future violinist. The child will definitely progress and excel in during his student violin lessons, if he receives enough encouragement for his successes.