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It's More Than the Violin
by Elizabeth Faidley
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | — | — |
| Oct 22 | #179 | #156 |
| Oct 21 | #176 | #154 |
| Oct 20 | #183 | #161 |
Latest episodes
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Why Are You So Angry at a Nine-Year-Old?
October 22, 2026 · 18 minElizabeth Faidley saw a post from a violin teacher, and she was repulsed. The post explained how this teacher stays calm in lessons "when the situation dearly calls for some unhinged reactions"—and that sentence sends Elizabeth into one of…
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Is My Child Talented?
October 15, 2026 · 24 minParents are obsessed with talent. Elizabeth Faidley doesn't mean mildly interested—she means obsessed. And if you're listening, there's an 80% chance you are too. In this episode of It's More Than the Violin, Elizabeth introduces her…
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My Child Doesn't Like Practicing
October 8, 2026 · 21 minIf Elizabeth Faidley had a dollar for every time a parent told her "my child doesn't like practicing," she'd never have to teach another G major scale again. In this episode of It's More Than the Violin, she tackles the panic that follows…
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The Myth of the Perfect Music Student
October 8, 2026 · 27 minIn this episode of It's More Than the Violin, Elizabeth Faidley takes on one of the most persistent fantasies in music education: the "perfect" student who practices every day, loves scales, finds the metronome comforting, and never…
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Meet Elizabeth!
October 8, 2026 · 24 minIn the debut episode of It's More Than the Violin, veteran violin teacher Elizabeth Faidley pulls back the curtain on what 26 years of teaching really looks like—and it's far more than scales and bow holds. From staring at children's…
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Welcome to 'It's More Than the Violin'
September 30, 2026 · 1 minHosted by Elizabeth Faidley, a violin teacher with 26 years of experience and thousands of students and teachers behind her, It's More Than The Violin explores everything that happens when you try to help a child grow through…
About the show
Hosted by world-renowned violin pedagogue Elizabeth Faidley, It’s More Than the Violin is about what actually happens when you spend 26 years teaching children music.
Spoiler: very little of it is just about the violin.
Yes, there are scales, concertos, auditions, competitions, crooked bows, collapsing wrists, and an absolutely unreasonable amount of time spent discussing someone’s pinky. But teaching a child to play an instrument means teaching a child, and children come with confidence, fear, ambition, boredom, perfectionism, parents, adolescence, anxiety, enormous feelings, questionable practice habits, and the occasional complete meltdown over four measures of Bach.
Drawing on more than two decades of teaching students and mentoring teachers around the world, Elizabeth talks about how children actually learn, why some practice and some absolutely do not, what motivation really looks like, what happens when talented kids become teenagers, and how parents can help without making everyone insane.
There will be stories, psychology, education, opinions acquired the hard way, and probably more discussion of children’s thumbs than any podcast reasonably needs.