(part 2 of 6 from the article Reading Music) Why don’t you give written music right away? Music is sound—an auditory experience, not a visual one. Students should be exposed to good-sounding music from the very beginning. They can recreate beautiful sounds, just as they recreated spoken words, long before they …
(part 1 of 6 from the article Reading Music) A common criticism of the Suzuki Method is that students play everything by ear and never learn to read music. Hopefully the questions and answers in this article will address those concerns and explain how reading skills are developed and strengthened …
(section 3 of 6 from the article Introduction to the Suzuki Method) What is the Mother Tongue analogy? Just as with babies and toddlers learning their native language, music can be taught through… …hearing: constant, ongoing, relevant, long-term exposure …response: attempts are rewarded with positive acknowledgment and small steps of progress …
