Questions tagged [children]
For questions relating to children in music. Examples include teaching music to children (theory and practice), instrument selection, and specific technique for younger musicians.
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What is the perfect age for a child to start piano lessons? [closed]
My son of 3.5 year old, and my daughter of 1.5 year old, are both showing good ear, musical capabilities and intetests. I am a 19 years experienced guitarist and I am about to start music lessons for ...
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Should a right handed child hold a guitar left-handedly [duplicate]
Going to try and distil this down to one question!
Background:
My 9yo daughter is interested in music, and and at the moment rock guitar. We have loads of guitars and ukes around from me and her mum ...
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Primary school child writing music
My young (8 year old) child is starting to play around with writing music, and he's done a bit both on pencil and paper, and with a tablet app that is still writing on a staff, but takes some of the ...
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My child's violin practice is making us tired, what can we do?
My daughter began taking violin lessons 2 years ago, she's now 7.
She became interested because she saw an older cousin play the violin.
At the beginning, we were told that in order to progress, one ...
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My young child shows great interest in music. How should I help him develop his skills?
My son is 4 years old. Since he was small, he could hum tones and pieces of music. When we got a piano he was very small, not even 2, and would hum the tone as the tuner worked. I know my tuner and ...
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How to prepare an old child guitar?
Our daughter got an old child guitar (80 cm / 31") as a present from her grandparents. It's horrible to play, so I have to try making it as good as possible.
Somethings to note:
The neck is really ...
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Help a 6-year old learn to play recorder
After "mandatory" recorder lessons in his school, my 6 year old son wants to learn to play recorder properly. So, this question is two-fold.
What recorder should I pick for him? He currently has a ...
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Teaching guitar to a 6yr old
I'm a self-taught amateur guitarist of about 10 years. Never had any formal lessons. Picked up what I could from books. When my nephew was 4, he saw my guitars and wanted to try them. He was quite ...
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How young could a child start learning an instrument?
I play the guitar and have always tried to include my son in the fun when I play. He's 9 months old and seems to always like listening to it so far. Recently he has become very curious about the ...
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Whether child singers know what they are doing while singing different pitches or do they do it automatically? [closed]
Many young children sing perfectly. Do they know what changes they are doing in their body to sing a high pitch or low pitch? Whether they are doing those changes automatically without knowing what ...
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What instruments can a four-year-old with left-side paralysis begin to learn/hope to ever learn?
My four-year-old sister has tragically suffered left side paralysis from a brain injury. Because she's so young, her brain is remarkably plastic, and a lot of functionality has returned. She can walk, ...
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Teaching hard passages to a child
First off I'm no teacher neither have I studied music. I have played the oboe for 15 years now and play in multiple amateur orchestras.
Now I have encountered situations where I'm asked to lead a ...
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Creating color coded playing instruction for xylophones
I want to create simple playing instructions for a child to be played on an eight-note xylophone where each tone has a unique color. The instructions should be color coded too. They should be ...
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What level of pitch interval perception is typically necessary for a child to be considered to have some aptitude for violin study?
I've been a multi-instrumentalist for most of my 40+ years, and with violin as my first instrument, I take for granted an acute sense of relative pitch.
My seven-year-old daughter's school has ...
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Buying a dual purpose keyboard for learning kids + aspring eletronic music adults?
My 6 year old is interested in learning piano, so I'm looking to buy a keyboard for her. I'm also interested in picking back piano myself and trying my hand at electronic music. I have a computer ...
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What can I do to help my guitar student get off the ground faster?
About me: I'm an intermediate guitar player whose preferred style is extreme metal. I've never given lessons before. I only read tabs but I have a basic understanding of music theory.
About the ...
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What is the name of these tubes, that emit sound when being swung?
The group "Walk off the earth" are performing a video cover of "Hello" using some colourful sound generators, that emit sound when being swung (e.g. in seconds 00:05 to 00:10):
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Guitar for child
My 6-year old has shown interest in playing guitar when I am playing mine. My guitar is way too big for her small hands. Are half-sized guitars useful for learning? Or should I think about something ...
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"It takes dedicated PARENTS to produce a good drummer" -- Tell me more
Motivated by https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/38814/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-a-good-drummer?noredirect=1#comment55597_38814, which had a comment that stated:
It takes dedicated PARENTS to ...
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12yo driving me nuts with poorly done falsetto
My son is twelve and a half and enjoys singing along with pop songs that he listens to with headphones on an mp3 player. Some of it comes out as some awful squeaking, which I find intolerable!
He ...
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Should very young bassists use a German bow?
I play bass with a German bow, and teach this to my students. Recently my school aquired a 1/8-size bass. Should I get a German bow for this one, or would it be too big? Should I rather use a French 1/...
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I'm tonedeaf. If I sing to my baby, will I damage his/her musical ear?
I'm amusical - I cannot discriminate between higher and lower pitch even when there is a large difference between them. I want my child to develop musical abilities. I know that an out-of-tune piano ...
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Making music digitally -- where should children start?
Digital musical instruments: How could children play with and learn, alongside traditional instruments?
And how do the ecosystems for making music in iOS, Android, and Windows tablet compare?
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Breathing technique for younger brass band players
I'm a conductor in a church brass band. Currently I train children to learn a brass instrument from 10-11 years old up. I plan to lower that age limit but starting to work with kids younger than 10 ...
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What is a normal singing range for children?
What is considered a normal singing range for children?
That is, when choosing a key for a song for children to sing, what range should the melody fall within?
Alternatively, what is an expected full ...
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Assess child's ability or interest in music and piano
I've played the piano a while ago (24 years to be exact!), then had to stop for a number of reasons.
Now I'm 37. I want to start playing again, not just for myself, but to get my 5-year old daughter ...
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What qualities of a guitar should I seek for an 8 year old?
We are looking for a guitar for my son, and have seen cheap ones at Toys R Us, et al. He is just starting out, and we are trying to gauge his interest before spending too much. Would it be worth ...
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Choosing the appropriate flute for my preschooler
My preschooler has pretty good embouchure on a six hole plastic flute in the key of D; unfortunately, the distance from the mouth hole to the sixth finger hole is about 17.5 inches so the finger holes ...
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What is the best way to introduce my 4 year old to harmonica?
My 4-year-old son just got a standard 10 hole harmonica in C from his grandmother, and I would like to give him a good start that will encourage him to enjoy playing.
I myself started out just like ...
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