小朋友學小提琴的家長請入來傾一傾

garytse

HuiTung,

說不上請教, 大家交流一下吧!

我對香港天才兒童藝術協會沒有認識, 但單看他們的網頁, 未見提及此組織的背景和導師的專業.

對於兒童幼年開始學習樂器, 近年有提早的趨勢.

我個人認為, 早與遲不是問題, 最重要的是, 兒童學習音樂而覺得快樂.

我倒認為, 兩三歲的小朋友, 先讓他們接觸音樂, 例如可參加一些兒童音樂班, 唱遊班等.  待他們對音樂的興趣提高後, 才讓他們選擇樂器, 比為了學樂器而為他們安排課堂更恰當.

很多人喜歡將鋼琴和小提琴作出比較, 其實它們是兩種非常不同的樂器, 各有優點 (其實小提琴的音符並不簡單, 家長可跟小朋友一起試一試).  先學後學是很難說的, 究竟是學了兩年再學/轉學另一種樂器, 還是待成為老師時才學另一種?

只要自己喜歡, 就是好樂器.  建議跟子女訂下協議, 例如觀察兩年, 看看兩年後子女是否一樣喜歡? 會否有一點成績? 到時再作"轉學" 或  "加學" 的決定還未遲.

Gary

HuiTung

Gary,

Thank you very much for your reply.  I totally agree with your comments.
  
BTW, I like your web site.

Regards,  

ykwong

Impressive message from KC:

Hardly could I find a father like me highly involvied in our own kid's ECA apart from the academic.

I do agree that our participation increase interest in learning to the kids. I started learning piano in my late thirties, even me and my son are not  good players, we still find lor of pleasure in playing it together.

I don't agree with some commentator's message (may be not this forum) that learning music intruments should be  in 100% corrrect attitude, otherwise it will be a waste of time and money.

Knowing more is absolutely better than knowing none. Not everybody need to be 李雲迪 or 李傳朗. From learning music instruments, we let our kid to know more about music, how to distingulish, appreciate and enjoy. Not necessary to be a performer.

BTW, could anyone tell me where is 粵華 ? I want to buy a full size cheap violin so that I can start learning violin with my son. His is too small for my fingers.

And KC: where can I find the books you mentioned? is there similar regarding the (條奇) other than suzuki?

toffeeli

Hi warrrren,

Your advice is really useful.

Yes, I do find that a child will be self motivated to improve and practice when he finds the interest. Especially my son loves to perform infront of the audience on the stage and he is in fact looking forward to the next performance. When he saw the elder kids playing some songs he would yell that he wanted to play this song next time. BTW, how often will there be performance opportunities at 姚

warrrren

Hi ykwong,

Good to see another caring father and adult violin learner.  And I'm glad that I am not talking to myself.

I know only one 粵華, 188 Wanchai Road (there may be other on the Kowloon side, not sure).  You can get all the books I mentioned from Amazon.  If I remember correctly, I also saw Nurtured by love and To learn with love at Dymocks in Central.

How old is your son?  I'm sure both you and your son will find learning together a wonderful experience.

Cheers,
KC

warrrren

toffeeli,

>>> how often will there be performance opportunities at 姚

ykwong

KC:

Thanks for your information! mine is 7 and going to P.2 this September.

yk

toffeeli

Just to add some of my "personal" 愚見 that exams may not be definitely bad because to some people this may be the challenge and motivation to learn and improve. I just mean I would rather choose not to be too "pushy" and my greatest wish is that my son would enjoy music. I have no intention to train him as a "musical box".

bb2001

I highly impressed by yk and kc's messages.

I let my daughter to learn volin because I think music and playing instrument can make one's personality becomes more harmonic and attention becomes more focus. And my daughter's school only offer volin course.
After the whole P.1 course, I found something wrong, she doesn't like to practise and her gesture is bad. I didn't know how to guide her, I don't music at all. Then, I decided to start learning volin myself by reading books and do the practice with my daughter everynight right now.
My daughter still doesn't have much interest now, so I will try to look at the books recommeded by kc and maybe share with all of you again later.

toffeeli

Hi, bb2001,

Yes, I also find that playing musical instrument can train one's concentration.

Perhaps you can ask your daughter to practise some more simple pieces first and the ones she loves and can manage. When she finds that she can play very well and perhaps even "jam" with you, she may find the fun and confidence.

Actually sometimes the practising pieces (some are merely for practising the techniques and the melody is not really too nice) may be quite boring. I would often let my son mix a few pieces he loves and then encourage him to try some harder ones bit by bit. Then when he finds the harder ones are not that difficult, he would have more confidence to play those.

Also, my son loves to "jam" with CDs and very often I would let him listen to the CDs so that he got some idea of the musical pieces and I would also ask him to imagine a story about the music. When he practise and that a part may not be playing too well, I would use the story he imagine like "the birds has flied away...." or "the rabbit is jumping too fast..."   to remind  him that he has to play better. He would then laugh and appears more willing to accept the comments.

In fact, my son may sometimes  not in a good mood to practise and may need some warm up beforehand like my husband playing by himself first for a while and then invite him to join......, listening to some music first......., watching some video of his past performance and performance of other kids....., saying I love to hear his lovely music......, pretending I forgot a part of the melody and invite him to show me ........etc.

Perhaps, may other parents also share how they encourage their kids to practise?


Regards,
toffeeli

warrrren

Let your child play some simple pieces that they know (e.g. Eensy weensy spider, happy birthday, barney, away in a manger, baa-baa black sheep etc).  Kids love them.

Also, do something that is fun before practice.  My trick this week is to dance with my girl with Elvis singing "Let me be your teddy bear" in the background.

Regards,
KC

Glau

阿囡響學校group 都學有半年，我想幫個女搵小提琴老師 1:1 將軍澳區，有無好介紹呀

Trevormama

今期學前　育，ｐ．３４有說學小提琴的專題（但篇幅不是很大）,仲有我兒子的Picture, hehe..., 原來his face is very nervous, I was waiting for outside at that day.

bb2001

尋晚到Yips上堂，發覺又多咗兩個新學員，而家總共有7個，實在太多人，老師根本照顧唔到每一小朋友。而且每個人進度唔同，甚難control.
但我女女好似剛剛pickup到，有啲進步。
$680/4堂，值唔值得繼讀呢？

somimi

bb2001,
yips 應該吾錯, 但7人一組, 實在太多人.
你可問吓上次我提個間中心, 佢有個新老師, 佢好識教學生, 好以仲比家長跟上堂tim, 有次我仔個miss請假由佢上, 亞仔話佢教得好明又清楚, 但佢要小組教(2-3人), 聽聞佢收費幾貴 (8番梨ka).

jjmame

bb2001: Our class is even worst, we have 8 kids, 8 parents and 1 teacher, total 17 persons together with the music stands, you can imagine how crowded it is.  Really too many and the teacher just can't cater every child's needs (although she is good).

soomimi: Can you PM me the new teacher info?  I am interested and I think bb2001 may be interested too.

somimi

jjmame,
already pm u on july?? do u remember ??

jjmame

Yes, I remember.  You said 培正附近 but you didn't give me the contact details?