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    Companion Book to Have Fun with Your Music: Have Fun with Your Music, #2
    Companion Book to Have Fun with Your Music: Have Fun with Your Music, #2
    Companion Book to Have Fun with Your Music: Have Fun with Your Music, #2
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    Companion Book to Have Fun with Your Music: Have Fun with Your Music, #2

    By Becky Chaffee

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    This Have Fun With Your Music companion provides ideas for parent discussion with young music students. The book requires advanced thought level (not reading level, since many ideas are portrayed in the engaging paintings). The original hardback art book is intended for children to be encouraged to practice their instrument. Parents and teachers can tell them to practice until they are blue, but if a student makes it their own, they are empowered. A non-musical parent may not understand the concepts in this humorous art book. Specifically violin, piano and cello students start working early. The book is applicable to students studying any instrument. It encourages students to make it fun, and use good practice habits. There is no other book that addresses this subject for young students.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBecky Chaffee
    Release dateOct 12, 2020
    ISBN9781393762065
    Companion Book to Have Fun with Your Music: Have Fun with Your Music, #2
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    Becky Chaffee

    Becky Chaffee has Civil Engineering Degrees from UC Berkeley and Cornell University. She is an amateur musician, and has listened to about 20 years of music lessons taking her kids to violin and piano classical and jazz, and herself to flute lessons. Thru her music gifts company, Becky raises funds for music education, and has distributed $1,000's to youth.

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      Have Fun with Your Music

      Written by Becky Chaffee

      Cover Art by Becky Chaffee

      Copyright © October 2020 Becky Chaffee

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      1.0 Title Page and Introduction

      (Suggested Discussion)

      THE TITLE PAGE AND first pages of the book, Have Fun With Your Music by Becky Chaffee, introduce the idea of music as fun. Kids and parents of children practicing lose sight of the fact that a musical instrument is a great privilege and playing should be approached as a fun thing to do; Even though the need to practice regularly, preferably every day, can make it seem like a monotonous chore. Find a way to have the attitude of fun by choice, empowering the child or yourself. Perhaps recording yourself, listening to other musicians on-line play the same

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