music teachers - does this sound strange to you? Do you think this is the wrong teacher?

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SSSandy2 · 13/07/2008 20:07

Hi, my dd has just started violin, she's had maybe just over 2 months of lessons and is a beginner so atm it is all quite easy and she is also enjoying learning it. It seems to be going very well.

I'm a bit at something the teacher said last week. She said dd (7) is very musical, has a good ear, plays well. That's all nice to hear because I think none of that applies to me and those are all prerequisites for learning the violin I suppose but then she said, she thinks dd needs maybe a year of lessons altogether and after that she will teach herself what she wants to know. So from the age of 8 1/2

That can't be right, can it? Now I am wondering if she is a serious teacher. She says dd will not need her help or mine (not that I'm a big help).

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redwino · 13/07/2008 20:15

It doesn't sound right to me. My DD has been playing since she was about 7 or 8 and is now 12. There are always new things to learn and of course all the music theory needed to read and play music correctly. My DD would certainly mot have got far on her own and would probably have become disillusioned and given up if left to her own devices.
Is she learning through her school or is this a private teacher you have found?

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SSSandy2 · 13/07/2008 20:09

She says after a year dd will know all the notes, be able to read the music and hear when it's wrong so she can go it alone from there.

Now surely is wrong. I mean even some absolute genius like Yehudi Menuhin had lessons for years on ends and dd is not a child genius.

So I'm wondering if dd is in the right hands. I said I think it is nice for her to work with a teacher (and there is so much more you need guidance from a teacher with, isn't there, beyond getting the notes right. I'm wonderign if I should maybe get someone else but dd loves her

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