The parent attends all lessons and classes and practices every day with the child. Most parents also learn the first songs that the child is studying. This approach assures a more complete understanding of the technical points involved in learning to play and motivates the child to imitate what he or she sees the parent doing. It can also help the parent understand the difficulties involved in learning to play an instrument and increase their patience with the learning process. Musical ability is developed at a very young age.
Children enjoy and respond to music from before birth.
They can immediately benefit from a musical environment. It is helpful if the young child has been exposed to music through recordings and singing with the family for many years before formal lessons begin. Most Suzuki students begin lessons between the ages of three and five, but older children are not excluded. In the Suzuki Method, students listen every day to recordings of the music they are studying and will study in the future. The more the student listens, the easier it is for him or her to learn the music.