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Things are continuing to move ahead for Erin at a rewarding, steady pace. She's working on Beethoven Minuet now and is looking forward ...

So far so good! We returned home, made the switch to a tenth-sized instrument, and have established a routine of daily practising. The focus...

During the fall we managed only sporadic lessons. As a result, practising was a struggle for a couple of months. Then Erin decided the time ...

By mid-spring, Erin was showing some interest in re-mastering some of her more challenging review repertoire. We began working gingerly toge...

It's mid-morning and Erin and Noah are playing with Duplo. They have built something they are calling a "mooseum...

Throughout the winter, Erin has done very little practising, but has still played her violin for pleasure regularly. Several times a week sh...

We began the fall by establishing a routine of regular weekly lessons with Erin's grandmother. For a few weeks this worked quite well. E...

Well, we've marked our first anniversary on the violin. We're back from the institute. It was nice to see familiar faces and I was p...

My little performer performed a beautiful Twinkle Theme at our spring recital last week. Her first recital, a "Twinkle Graduation"...

I keep expecting the bubble to burst. We have been rollicking along for almost four months now. The routine is established, progress is occu...

We've moved up to a sixteenth-size violin. The tailpiece on the thirty-second-size cracked, and it has proved impossible to find a repla...

I'm wondering where we went so wrong last fall. I didn't appreciate how hard it would be to get a home routine established, and I gu...

We are developing quite a routine the past week or two! We are finally, for about the first time ever, managing to practise more than once o...

Well, we've started again. Four days and counting. It is a struggle, but we are managing a short practise every day. And I have stopped ...

I've told Erin that when she is four we will start working at the violin again. (She turns four in less than two weeks.) I am committed ...

I am trying to completely re-think both my motivation and my approach in teaching Erin. If I were to give myself advice at this stage I woul...

It hasn't continued. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to actually establish a routine of practising after the daily less...

Erin's grandma has been visiting, and she is a Suzuki violin teacher too, one with lots of experience and expertise. Erin has been havin...

We have just returned from our first Suzuki Institute together. Erin is 3 and a half, and is playing on a tiny thirty-second-size violin (wh...