She's really enjoying it, but absolutely refuses to take any guidance as to what to do - "I want to just do it my way!" she says. We looked at a couple of online videos but she missed the one I saw about how to position the bow and absolutely wouldn't listen to me when I suggested the right way to do it. Ah well, I guess there are self-taught musicians around!! It's probably going to be a good idea to expose her to videos and recordings of good cellists so that she can be inspired and maybe she'll see for herself the technique they are using. The other thing I'm going to do is try and set a good example of myself learning to play my bass guitar which DH bought me for my birthday last August and I have picked up and played precisely twice! This morning I've received my Tesco DVD hire delivery which is bass guitar lessons so if I am diligent, maybe she will follow suit.
Oh, and Sarah, she really wanted me to phone you to get Anna to come round and watch her!!!
Anyway, I really wasn't planning to do this:
I've always promised myself I will not let my children learn the violin - I didn't want to endure all the screeching and scratching. But faced with Shannon's longing face when she saw the little violins at the hire place, I just couldn't help but relent!!
4 comments:
looks like it's going really well! keep up the good work!;)
Anna
p.s. we have some starter books here that we don't need any more, if you want them you're welcome - email me your address again if you do as I'm bound to have lost it since last time! Sarah xx.
oh but Shannon looks cute with that violin!!!! and I'm sure that the sit back and let her explore method is going to be good enough for now. We don't teach a proper pen grip to a toddler who has got a fist full of crayon, don't see this is much different (or at lesat I hope not cos Aprilia holds her bow all funny too!)
awww,h ow lovely. BBh oldsth ev iolinj ustl ike shannon!i don'tt hink that the bow hold matters to start with just the joy of playing.
Awwww!
Fran's teacher did show us a good bow holding trick. If J gets less doodahish, we''ll share :)
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