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The Suziki Method

As you may already know a violin program is being added to our wonderful school. While preparing for the violin class my music teacher explained an old method used in Japan to teach children how to play the violin. It is called “The Suzuki Method,” and was created none other than Suzuki himself.
Mr. Suzuki wanted to find an easy way for young children to play the difficult, yet defined instrument of the violin. Suzuki thought that all Japanese children were intelligent enough to learn the violin, since they could accomplish the feat of learning their own language. Suzuki observed children from an early age and noticed that they learnt to speak before they could read or write. He also noticed that the children wanted to do whatever the adults around them did. Using these pieces of information Suzuki developed “The Suzuki Method.”
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Posted by: Leonard Herriman

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