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What are some good violin and guitar duo songs?
shmokes:
It's a good deal for your niece too. She's going to learn to understand music notation and theory. Guitar has tabs which lets you cheat. The skills that your niece learns in violin are transferable to virtually every instrument on the planet. She will be a much better guitar player because she has a foundation in violin.
With that said, if she's already asking for guitar . . . I'd probably just put her in guitar. She'll probably be much more successful doing something she wants to do than something her parents want her to do. Who knows?
My $.02 anyway.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 28, 2006, 06:03:53 pm ---It's a good deal for your niece too. She's going to learn to understand music notation and theory. Guitar has tabs which lets you cheat. The skills that your niece learns in violin are transferable to virtually every instrument on the planet. She will be a much better guitar player because she has a foundation in violin.
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I took violin when I was a kid, and even after 30 years of not playing I think it helped me with the guitar.
She's learning through the Suzuki technique.
Unfortunately this wont carry over to anything but the violin.
It's all about listening to the music and memorizing the mechanics. According to this method learning to read musical notes just confuses the pupil.
She is learning to play the way we learned to talk, it's slow at first but once she masters it, she will be able to play anything as soon as she hears it.
Or at least that's the line the teacher is using for why she can't play Twinkle Twinkle after 6 months of lessons.
shmokes:
I'm not sure how I feel about Suzuki. At best I think a kid should start in Suzuki early on, like when they're your niece's age, but by 10 or 12 they should be moved to traditional lessons.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on September 28, 2006, 06:46:34 pm ---She is learning to play the way we learned to talk, it's slow at first but once she masters it, she will be able to play anything as soon as she hears it.
Or at least that's the line the teacher is using for why she can't play Twinkle Twinkle after 6 months of lessons.
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It's probably a bit absurd for me to resurrect such an obscure thread, but my 5-yr-old has been in violin lessons since the beginning of the year and I gotta say, she'd be going absolutely nuts if she still couldn't manage Twinkle Twinkle. I dunno how your niece is in the patience department, but for my daughter six months of just screeching about and not producing any discernible music would have been punctuated with frustration and crying and probably an end to violin lessons.
eds1275:
What I would do is just grab any old piano/guitar/vocal book, strum the chords and let her play the vocal melody, which is usually the only thing that is in standard notation. Who cares if the original has violin. Vocal lines are often easier than the underlying stuff anyways. If you get the vocal melody over the chords it will be recognizable enough.