The Suzuki Method
How do children learn their first language? With the unlimited time of childhood, a home environment full of the language, and lots of listening, copying, repeating.
Bit by bit, words and meaning accumulate. Then the child learns to read the words.
Music is a language. We focus on technique and ear training first. Note reading comes after a basic facility in playing has been established.
The heart that feels music feels people.
-Shinichi Suzuki