So I have a 10-year-old sister who's been interested in learning the ukulele. She takes mine all the time and experiments and asks me to teach her. She already makes her own little songs with the three chords she knows. So I took her to my ukulele class, she loved it and now she looks forward to coming with me again. Now, I have two questions:
1) I ordered a Tanglewood T6 for her because she wanted a light blue soprano and this was the only available one in my area. Yes, I'm spoiling her. Is it a bad instrument for a beginner kid? I just want her to stick to it, cause when she's not playing, she's on the TV or PC all the time, and I know that kids can easily lose interest over small things. Which brings me to the second question:
2) How do I encourage her? I like playing and singing with her. We don't live under the same roof but I see her once a week or so, and I enjoy it very much too. I'm also trying to slowly teach her how to pick each string separately (she still finds it a bit tricky). Also there's no way she can make a barre chord, her fingers are tiny. How do you keep a little girl from getting frustrated or bored with it?
PS: I hope her ukulele arrives soon cause I gave her mine for the whole week and I miss it. At least my mum says she's careful with it, so I won't find it broken with 1 string or something.
1) I ordered a Tanglewood T6 for her because she wanted a light blue soprano and this was the only available one in my area. Yes, I'm spoiling her. Is it a bad instrument for a beginner kid? I just want her to stick to it, cause when she's not playing, she's on the TV or PC all the time, and I know that kids can easily lose interest over small things. Which brings me to the second question:
2) How do I encourage her? I like playing and singing with her. We don't live under the same roof but I see her once a week or so, and I enjoy it very much too. I'm also trying to slowly teach her how to pick each string separately (she still finds it a bit tricky). Also there's no way she can make a barre chord, her fingers are tiny. How do you keep a little girl from getting frustrated or bored with it?
PS: I hope her ukulele arrives soon cause I gave her mine for the whole week and I miss it. At least my mum says she's careful with it, so I won't find it broken with 1 string or something.
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