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Our Classes

Music Education that’s

In Tune with Children

In the Let’s Play Music programs, we know how children learn most effectively.  That’s why you’ll see play, peer interaction, full-body involvement, and emotional nurturing in every single lesson.  Each of our three programs is intended for beginners! Your child will thrive with our perfectly tailored age-appropriate methods. Pick the program created for your child’s age group below to get started.

Parent and child playing instrument together in Sound Beginnings

Mom & Me Class
Music Foundation

Kindergarten Skills

6 non-sequential semesters

Ages 0-4

Piano teacher and child learning music and solfege at keyboard

Ages 4-6

 Foundational Music

Piano Skills

Solfege & Ear Training

3-Year Program

Piano student practicing and singing Presto

Classical Piano Technique

Solfege & Ear Training

Music History

2-Year Program

Ages 7-12

Start Your Child's Musical Journey Today!

Bridge piano teacher helping students learn playing

Bridge & Connections

Looking for continued education? 

For Let's Play Music Graduates

 Ongoing Education

New Materials

Let's Play Music doesn't just teach piano, we also develop sight-reading, harmony, melody, and rhythm skills in such a way that children internalize these skills, and become talented!

Our students can read music and know what the music sounds like in their head, so sight-singing, harmonizing, composing and improvising become second nature. We do this by taking advantage of the brain's ability to absorb music concepts and teach skills in an age-appropriate manner. 

 

After completing our curriculum, students are prepared to pursue private piano lessons or other instrumental instruction and will continue to demonstrate high musical ability throughout their lives!

Our Teaching Philosophy

How we do it!

Children in music class learning to play the piano

Play is the Way

We use minimal talking because children learn through play and repetition. Research has shown that the more senses involved in the learning process, the more the concepts are internalized.  So we use the eyes, ears, hands, and full body movements to learn concepts usually taught on paper.

Learning through  Experience

Children learn through experience.  Concepts and skills are introduced in games and songs without labeling or explaining.  Once a concept is mastered, it can be labeled and it becomes a dramatic discovery moment.

Parent and child doing music lessons together
Music teacher and children learning classical music in class

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The Let's Play Music curriculum is centered on the teachings of the music masters Kodaly, Orff, and Dalcroze, as well as Edwin Gordon's Learning Sequence in Music.  They are revolutionists 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.

Zoltan Kodaly music education expert

Zoltán Kodály

In the Kodaly concept, children are first introduced to musical concepts through playful, natural experience. He emphasized the use of folk songs 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 solfege hand signs 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.

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics expert

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 music education expert

Carl Orff

In the Orff-Schulwerk 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!)

Let's Play Music was founded on great educational philosophies

Learning From the Masters

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