You finally convinced your child to sit down to practice, you have a schedule in place, but now what are they supposed to be practicing? If you've been sitting in on their lessons, you know we always follow the same format (regardless of instrument): scales, exercises, solo, band/orchestra music. I do this same format every lesson so that the students not only know what to expect when they're at the lesson, but will hopefully fall back on this routine when they are alone. If