Chord Theory
Certified Teachers
Solfege Ear Training
Age Appropriate Methods
Let's Play Music introduces kids ages 4-6 to music using fun and creativity. Through our children’s piano and music lessons, students in Eau Claire will learn early foundational skills in our music theory program.
Musical Talent Starts Here
1st Year Student Materials - $88
(plus sales tax for AZ residents)
2nd Year Student Materials - $64
(plus sales tax for AZ residents)
3rd Year Student Materials - $72
(plus sales tax for AZ residents)
Program Costs
Let's Play Music has two separate cost components.
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A materials fee is paid online at the time of enrollment. We select only the best quality class materials for our students to help them succeed.
1st Year Student Materials - $88
2nd Year Student Materials - $64
3rd Year Student Materials - $72
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Our tuition fees are location specific. For further details, please email your local Eau Claire instructor. All tuition fees get paid directly to this instructor in monthly installments. The cost includes weekly classes, parent communication, classroom instruments, and a year-end recital.
We've Struck a Chord!
What Parents Are Saying about Let's Play Music!
I had heard great things about the program and decided to enroll my youngest. Oh, how I wish my older kids had had this program! He has learned SO much. As we are finishing up his 3rd year, I can honestly say I had no idea how much he would learn and be able to do! What a wonderful experience it has been!
Cheryl M.
I love Let's Play Music! It turned my monotone singing son into a now 12-year-old who has sung solos and loves to sing in choirs! As a music teacher, I am amazed at the wonderful musical foundation that Let's Play Music gives its students. It is so fun and yet so comprehensive!
Amy S.
My kids have always loved music, but Let’s Play Music took them to the next level and has made them into mini musicians! I love this program because it develops a love of music in kids and helps them learn to be creative and explore music from a very young age.
Laura V.
I love the Let's Play Music program! I love the carefully thought out, step-by-step process of teaching music fundamentals to children through age-appropriate methods. This is truly a life-changing experience for children and their parents!
Linda H.
At Let's Play Music, we focus on teaching overall musicianship, so we go beyond regular piano lessons. Our children's piano & music lesson instructors in Eau Claire teach sight-singing, chord structure, ear training, and classical music.
Why Let's Play Music?
Our Flagship Curriculum
Through our Eau Claire children’s piano & music lessons, we engagingly introduce musical concepts and core foundational skills. These include solfege, sight-reading, and chord recognition through fun activities.
Read more about each year below.
The second-year is when we introduce piano to our students. They also begin chord notation, intervals, and harmonic improvisation.
Second Year
Introduction to Keyboard
We start our Eau Claire preschool music class students along their musical journey by introducing rhythm, harmony, and reading. We utilize tools like songs, games, Tone Bells, and the autoharp.
First Year
Keyboard Prep
In the third year, we cover proper form when playing the piano. Students in our Eau Claire children’s piano & music lessons also start learning how to transpose and compose music.
Third Year
Piano Skills
First Year
Keyboard Prep
Second Year
Introduction to Keyboard
Third Year
Piano Skills
The Let's Play Music curriculum is centered in the teachings of the music masters Kodaly, Orff and Dalcroze. These men were revolutionist who changed the attitudes of teaching music to children. Their philosophies are at the heart of our curriculum and you will see their methodologies in each detailed lesson plan.
Zoltán Kodály
In the Kodály Method children are first introduced to musical concepts through playful, natural experience. He emphasized the use of the folk song in all early music education, stating that they are the ‘mother tongue’ for teaching music. Melodic patterning, the repetition of certain notes in a row, trains both the ear and the eye to read the patterns on the staff. Adding solfeg handsigns and syllables further enhanced the learning experience. He used both folk music and songs that are based on the pentatonic scale to help teach the art of singing in tune.
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
The Dalcroze method, taught in his Eurhythmics schools, is another approach music educators use to foster music appreciation, ear-training and improvisation while improving musical skills. In this method, the body is the main instrument. Students learn rhythm and structure by listening to music and expressing what they hear through spontaneous bodily movement. (I.e. walking to quarter notes, skipping to dotted notes.)
Carl Orff
In the Carl Orff approach, children are taught concepts through improvisation, composition and a natural sense of play. He taught using folk music and music composed by the children themselves. All musical concepts were taught through singing, chanting, dance, movement, drama and the playing of percussion instruments. He believed the order of instruments should be: 1. Body Percussion 2. Voice 3. Simple Percussion Instruments 4. Barred Instruments
(For example, our tone bell set is an Orff instrument!)
