Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Violin Prafixt

Jasmine has been doing well at learning the violin. Obviously, she isn't playing full songs or anything but is learning her bow hold, the parts of the violin, and how to hold the violin corrsctly. She has also been learning a few rhythms and has learned 2 notes, A and E and can sing them respectively. She can pluck her A and E string and is eager to play a real song. Jason Day, her teacher is wonderful with her. He is patient and has many little tricks to get her to be still and pay attention during practice.
Jasmine does practice at home under our direction and we try our best to make sure she practices as much as we can get her to at this age. A few weeks ago, I took a video of her while she did what she calls her violin "prafixt". She really is into practicing things and will spontaneously announce at any given time, "Ladies, and Gentlemans, I will now prafixt my juggling (or magic, violin, singing, or anything else she can think of to practice)".

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