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muffinmonster
Daughter got the result today of her Grade 1 sax exam - scored 128 overall. I haven't seen the mark sheet yet, presume she will get it from sax teacher next week.

Really pleased for her as this is a much better mark than she got in either Grade 1 or 2 at piano (sightreading and scales let her down in those two). Now I need to persuade her that it's a result of all the good work she did in the final month (with me breathing down her neck!) - not a testament to the 10-minutes-a-week method that she favours. rolleyes.gif

Halka
Well done her! Perhaps the good result, by itself, will be all the encouragement she needs to get her working?
BerkshireMum
Congratulations to your daughter! hurrah.gif

The trouble with learning instruments is that it's not until you reach about grade 5 standard that you start to get much more fun out of playing. Until then there's a lot of hard slog, but you still can't play the pieces you would really like to, so it's easy to feel disheartened about practice.

I found what worked well for my son at about 12 was to tell him how much I enjoyed hearing him practise. He was quite amenable to playing whilst I prepared the dinner, which meant it was easy for me to give encouraging comments between scales, pieces, etc. I've never enjoyed cooking, so I could truthfully tell him that his playing brightened up a boring task for me, and this was a bit more incentive for him to practise.

At the end of the day, though, your daughter will decide for herself what she wants to spend her time doing, and if it isn't sax, you will have to accept that. Music lessons are never wasted, because the things your daughter has learned include listening, concentrating, acting on the teacher's instructions, etc, all of which are useful in school lessons too.
muffinmonster
Thanks, Halka and Berkshiremum. Yes, I think the result will give her a boost and I'm sure her sax teacher will have some nice things to say to her next week.
notmusimum


A great result! It may be that she was worried over the result and didn't want to say. Hopefully she will pick up and start practising now.
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