Parenting: How do you inspire your child to take up a musical instrument or learn to sing?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
How do you inspire your child to take up a musical instrument or learn to sing? Is there a 'best' instrument to learn on and how do you help keep their interest should practice become a chore? Jenni speaks to Molly Newton, a music teacher based in York and Yolanda Brown, a saxophonist.
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| 0:36.1 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, |
| 0:38.6 | here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.8 | My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.4 | As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things, |
| 0:59.2 | like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories. |
| 1:04.4 | And that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.3 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello, Denny Murray welcoming you to this week's podcast for Parents. |
| 1:21.0 | How do you inspire your child to take up music when not every school |
| 1:26.3 | provides tuition and a private teacher can be expensive? How do you encourage a |
| 1:32.3 | reluctant child to learn an instrument or have singing lessons? |
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