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Our daugter is 6 1/2 and started violin lessons about six weeks ago. She is taught privately, by a well-regarded teacher in our area. (I really, really like the teacher.) No group/class lessons. We started her off on the book Stringbuilder 1, and she's progressed enough to be playing exercises #50 and above, which is basically mastering the first and second fingers on the D and A strings, while still incorporating open Gs and Es.
The teacher, over the past couple of lessons, has made it a point to say that our daughter is "phenomenal" and that she sees "incredible potential."
I'm a musician myself and I help our daughter with lessons, but I never see her in that light. She will be starting the Suzuki method sometime within the next couple of weeks, about which I know nothing.
Is it really possible to identify talent so early on? I guess I should just ask the teacher, but I do wonder why she feels this way about our child.
What have your experiences been, whether for yourself or for a student of yours, or your child, or whomever?
Mozart composed his first symphony and was already touring at age 6.
Okay, now THAT's talent. God's gift.
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