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Mid Life Crisis · March 20th, 2009, 08:37 AM

I'm teaching a kid who is now 7 but was 6 when we started a year ago. He has a nice Yamaha 3/4 size steel string acoustic, much better than the cheapo nylon string thing he started on.

Concentration is definitely an issuse with kids this young. With the kid I teach, we started off at half hour lessons and have recently extended it to 45 minutes. To start with though it was a real struggle to keep him focused for the 30 minutes. In fact I was seriously thinking of telling his parents to give his lessons a break until he was mature enough to handle them, but I'm glad I didn't now as this boy has some natural talent.

I think it is a matter of slowly increasing the intensity of the lessons until they are able to concentrate the full time.

March 20th, 2009, 08:37 AM	#18 (permalink)
Mid Life Crisis Tele-Holic Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cambridge, England Age: 44 Posts: 787 6 Photos	I'm teaching a kid who is now 7 but was 6 when we started a year ago. He has a nice Yamaha 3/4 size steel string acoustic, much better than the cheapo nylon string thing he started on. Concentration is definitely an issuse with kids this young. With the kid I teach, we started off at half hour lessons and have recently extended it to 45 minutes. To start with though it was a real struggle to keep him focused for the 30 minutes. In fact I was seriously thinking of telling his parents to give his lessons a break until he was mature enough to handle them, but I'm glad I didn't now as this boy has some natural talent. I think it is a matter of slowly increasing the intensity of the lessons until they are able to concentrate the full time. __________________ Quiet desperation is the English way...