Practise Tips

Children are often motivated to practise with repitition, given small tokens of encouragement for their efforts or creating ways to count the number of times to play. Offering rewards such as:

*100 Days of Listening Award
*100 times playing Twinkle Theme Award

Practise Games
1) Roll a dice to see how many to play a certain measure, say 5 times perfect.
2) Bead counter
3) Practise sheet such as the ones found here to indicate what to play next: Pepperoni Pizza Twinkle, Ice Cream Cone Twinkle and so on.

http://www.thepracticeshoppe.com/charts-for-suzuki-pieces-1

Keeping track of the practise at home, for example colouring in the 100 stars and getting a prize for that.

This is taken from Sarah Lyngra of Yellowcat Publishing, her Valentines Day 2011 message.

14 ways to play better by Valentine's Day  

1. Use colored music.
2. Practice Monday.
3. Play in a well lit area.
4. Practice Tuesday.
5. Work on the parts of the pieces you don't know, first.
6. Practice Wednesday.
7. Play music you like.
8. Practice Thursday.
9. Write lyrics for your pieces.
10. Practice Friday.
11. Listen to your piece played by someone else.
12. Practice Saturday.
13. Record and listen to your piece played by yourself.
14. Practice Sunday.