Today I attended Dunbar Elementary School. I had a lesson with two of my string student, the others had a program to attend so I was able to have some relative one on one with these two strudents. These two students are in the fifth grade and for the last two years they were not that interested in violin lesson until this year. This year they seem more motivated to play and they even can play as well as those students who were with me from the beginning.
My lesson consisted of a little swing tune that they love. I used piece as an incentive to get them to play the other pieces I would need for upcoming programs and music festival. I challenge them to hold there instrument better, better intonation, and posture.

procedure: On certain difficult passges, I have them play the part 5 times increasing the tempo to where it is suppose to be in the music. It seems to have some good learning results. I plan to do this tomorrow at my other schools and determine how well it works.