At my daughter’s violin lesson I overheard her teacher, Soozie Schlanger, explaining how you just have to practice this or that for ten minutes and your relationship to accuracy and tone will take care of itself. It is so funny to hear someone who understands something similar with me try explaining it to someone who doesn’t. The power of that 10 or 20 or 30 minutes, the magic of it, the unbelievable gift or opportunity and at the same time the situation of so young you might not understand how easy the effort is. My daughter has a friend at school who insults her. She says she doesn’t make the violin sound good. The friend can’t play the violin but that doesn’t stop her from offering poison. My daughter shares it with me, that according to her friend she doesn’t play good. War of the soundbites. Who will win the psychological battle? Me and Soozie vs. the other twelve year olds? I can’t tell if its a fair fight.