Violin / Viola Lessons for Young Beginners

Ages 3-8

Live 1-on-1 Lessons

In these tutoring sessions, we will follow the Suzuki Philosophy of instructing the parent and the toddler during class, splitting a 30 minute session into 15 minutes of instruction for both, so that the parent can guide the child at home

Ruan Carlo Schneider

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Live video meetings

Meets on demand

30 min

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What's included

Meets on Demand

schedule meetings as needed

30 mins

per session

Teacher support

Assignments

2-4 hours per week. Assignments will be made depending on each student's and parent's difficulties and progress during the week. Assignments will be very specific and individual to each family's needs, availability and goals.

Assessment

At the end of the class, we always review what was covered in that week, what we worked on in class as top priorities, and what will need to be completed by the next lesson.

Class Experience

Beginner Level

My online tutoring sessions for young toddlers is divided into two segments. Each class will have a tutoring moment for the parent, and one moment for the child. It is done this way so that the parent can further supervise and correct the child at home during week during his practice, since young children aged 3-8 don't have the cognitive autonomy to practice and remember it all declaratively by themselves at that age. The parent learns faster, so in the first lessons he will learn the proper violin posture to guide the child, as well as basic sound production and finger placement on the instrument. After the parent has reviewed the basic  concepts on the violin, we start dividing the lesson for the student to have his moment.  The child will learn in a step-by-step manner, more slowly, from the basic posture concepts through the first songs in the Suzuki Violin Book One Method. The parent is always learning ahead and having his section during class, so that after the lesson is over, the parent can instruct and guide/correct the child during the week's practice at home. This method has been proven to work with great results from many violin instructors throughout the world, and is the main foundation of the Suzuki teaching philosophy for children, currently the most utilized violin method globally.

Learning Goals

Basic violin and bow posture

Basic tone production on the instrument

Other Details

Pre-Requisites

No pre-requisites for this class

Supply List

The student graduates this class when either; 
1) The student becomes old enough and independent enough to practice and learn by himself, passing then to the regular violin or viola one-on-one tutoring sessions.
2) The student gains autonomy with the instrument and progresses enough in the Suzuki Violin literature to be able to start and finish the lesson completely by himself, with the parent only writing down assignments and review points for the week. By that point the student also is recommended to switch to the regular violin/viola lessons for beginners.

Language of Instruction

English (Level: A0.5)

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Sources

We will use the Suzuki Violin Method Book 1 and its corrsponding audios, as well as the book I Can Read Music by Joanne Martin.

Meet the teacher

Ruan Carlo Schneider

Joined January, 2025

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Teacher expertise and credentials

Bachelor's Degree in Music from Universidade Federal do Paraná

I have experience teaching beginner students aged 3-8 for 5 years already, both in the US and in Brazil. Currently in the US, I work with two private schools that utilize this method of parent/student tutoring at each sessions, with optimal results for young children.