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Already at 7 she can find any note on the fretboard (using the easy to remember "All notes have sharps except elephants and buffalo's" and she can finger pick arpeggios .... young kids can really impress you with how quick they can learn
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
By then end of book 4 kids were playing and reading music in various positions all over the neck.
Sure it's not a rock method, but IMO is much better to teach kids that way. The really, really hard part is getting them to stick at it.
Don't do chords though, their hands are not physically developed to hold multiple strings. Single note melodies (pref on the same string are good). Easy nursery rhymes are also a great way to start developing aural skills.
Perhaps put it aside for a Ukulele?
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My OH teaches cello from 3 years up. Pianner from 5ish.[1] With the right approach it works. And it's incredibly cute. She once had three-year-old twins and got them to play simple cello duets. You could break the hit-counter on YouTube with that stuff these days.
The stickers on the fingerboard is something she does, too.
I'd show children others of a similar age getting stuck in:
Because those two have been at it long enough, you can also see their progression.
But I reckon the most important thing is that the kid "knows how it goes". Then their ears can do the work. They'll build dexterity scarily quickly anyway. The musicality is more important.
Obviously, my OH is teaching classical, which does indeed mean reading from the start. That works too, but you do have to stick with it and build to get anywhere.
[1] Finger independence and strength are the reasons for the age difference. In early cello lessons, it's a lot of bowing and open strings. The little kids have to use their whole fingerboard hand to hold one note and move it about as a unit when they start. Tots don't have the strength in their paws to handle proper weighted piano keys.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youSeriously though, lots of encouragement and letting them enjoy it, that's obvious but lots of teachers leave that out.