My kid’s not practicing — should we quit?   (We know, we’ve blogged about practice before but it’s been about a year, and it comes up just about every day, so here we go again...)   Practice is a big problem. We hear very...

"These songs are sooooo boring! Why can’t my child play more popular songs that we know?"   We hear this a lot, and we get it! When we decide to start studying an instrument, we imagine ourselves (or our children) playing our...