This was how my daughter’s virtuoso violin instructor taught, after a lifetime of teaching.

His method was to play alongside the student at 100x their skill level, pushing against their idea that it was too difficult.

But they’d play it, at tempo, horribly, from beginning to end. And then zoom in to a section and begin improving a few phrases at a time.

It was wild to watch, because after months of this, my 11yo could do something that seemed impossible.