Time To Practice
Do you help a young musician in your life practice? Are you a teacher that works with young musicians? Hosted by Christine Goodner, an experienced violin and early childhood music teacher. and author of Beyond the Music Lesson & Positive Practice, resources all about how to help families make music practice at home more effective with less conflict. TIME TO PRACTICE will bring you weekly conversations with performers, teachers, and students that will help, encourage and support you as you support the young musicians in your life.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Edmund Sprunger: Back to School Advice & The Value of Frustration
We're kicking off September and back to our school year schedule of podcast episodes this week with expert guest Edmund Sprunger. We talk a bit about back to school practice routine advice, the value…
Tips for Getting Back to A Practice Routine
This is our last week of our Summer of Music Practice tips before we launch into our fall episodes!
New episodes will be back Weds, Sept 10th 2025.
This week Christine is share a few tips about getti…
Listener Tip: 3 Creative Music Practice Games
This week we have a fun episode about three practice games that listener Annette plays with her young cellist son. I hope they prompt some fun practice games this week at your house as well!
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Perfectionism: For Families of Music Students with Christine Goodner & Claire Allen
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Upcoming Talk about setting up for a successful School year: Individual Rate & Studio Rate. Thanks for supporting the podcast!
Big list of Re…
Perfectionism: Reflections for Music Teachers with Christine Goodner & Claire Allen
If you're a teacher or music educator who thinks (or knows!) you might be a perfectionist, this episode is for you!
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Upcoming Talk about setting up for a successfu…
Part Two: Supporting Music Students with Perfectionism & Perfectionist Thinking
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Upcoming Talk about setting up for a successful School year: Individual Rate & Studio Rate. Thanks for supporting the podcast!
Helping Students with Perfectionism in Lessons & Music Practice
Our series on supporting perfectionists in the music studio continues this week with guest co-host Claire Allen. This week we are focusing on strategies to help young musicians in lessons and music p…
How Perfectionism Shows Up in Lessons & Music Practice
This episide is seond in the series with special guest, violinist Claire Allen. We'll be discussing perfectionism and perfectionist thinking in music lessons and music practice.
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Supporting Perfectionists in the Private Studio: A series with Claire Allen
Claire Allen joins us this week as she and Christine Goodner kick off a series about the crossroads between excellence, perfectionism, and learning music. Whether or not you identify as a perfectioni…
My 4 Takeaways from Institute + Camp Fundraising Ideas
Christine Goodner shares four takeways from an inspiring week at the Oregon Suzuki Institute and shares ideas to plan ahead for the financial aspect of attending camp for next summer with a few creat…
Expert Guest Chloe Ross: 3 Big TIps about Practice Making A Difference for My Students
This week as a part of our summer of Practice Tips, violinist and music educator Chloe Ross is on the podcast to share her biggest 3 Practice Tips from her thriving studio of 57 students. Chloe is al…
Expert Tip: Music Practice is a Balancing Act
We're continung our summer of Practice tips with some ideas about music practice as a balancing act: between fulfillment and enjoyment and intense effort. Between mind and body. Between seeing result…
Listener Practice Tip: Seeing Progress Add up
We;re back with another set of great listener tips this week! Listener Melissa shares a few of her favorite tips with us, including one all about seeing our progress add up in a tangible way.
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Practice Tip of the Week: Practice as Early as Possible
Welcome back to week three of our summer of practice tips! This week I'm sharing one of the tips I swear by both for myself and for students!
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Listener Summer Practice Tip: Games my child loves
This week is a short and sweet entry in our summer of practice tips series! An anonymous listener sent in a few practice games their child loves and that help keep music and music practice fun. I'm e…
Summer Music Practice: 5 Ways to Avoid Decision Fatigue
Welcome to the first of our summer bite-sized practice tip episodes! I hope this series will include some fun ideas, reminders you haven’t thought about in a while, and ideas you want to share with y…
Supporting Young Musicians and the Teachers Who Teach Them with Nicola Cantan
This week our guest is someone who really inspires me as a teacher: music eductor, pianist, podcaster, author and more from Ireland: Nicola Cantan.
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Nicola Cantan’s Website: Vi…
Helping Students SLOW Down During Practice: A FAQ episode with Barbie Wong
In episode 79, Barbie Wong joins Christine to discuss a frequently asked question: "How do I get my child to SLOW down during home music practice?"
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Barbie Wong’s website: ht…
Making it through an Overscheduled Time of Year
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Empowering the Next Generation Through Music with Raúl Gómez-Rojas of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony
This week on the Time to Practice podcast we’re speaking with Raúl Gómez-Rojas, musical director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony (MYS) about the transformative power of music education in the live…