Course Overview

  • Ages 4 - 6 years old during year 1
  • 45 - 55 minutes once a week, grown-up attends frequently
  • $300 per semester, 2 semesters per year for 3 years
  • Semesters begin in August and January and run for 15 weeks


Let's Play Music is a 3 year music program for kids ages 4-6, designed to build your child into a complete musician. They will have fun as they learn how to hear and sing and play music in many different ways. Students meet in my studio in small classes or 5-8 students once a week for 45-55 minutes. Parents attend with their child frequently, so you will be learning right along with your child.

Here's a short video summary of Let's Play Music 

In the 1st year (Red Balloons/Blue Bugs) we use tone bells, the auto harp, and many rhythm instruments like drums to play with and learn music concepts and theory. 

  1. Sing a major scale on solfege syllables with hand signs 
  2. Correctly imitate and identify rhythmic patterns
  3. Recognize skips, steps and leaps on a staff
  4. Sing ascending and descending patterns
  5. Identify tonic, dominant and subdominant chords 
  6. Sing a melodic ostinato
  7. Keep a steady beat, and divide and subdivide it 
  8. Sing in Tune

In the 2nd year (Green Turtles/Yellow Arrows) we begin to play on the keyboard and continue developing our complete musicianship

  1. Sight-sing simple melodies using solfege hand signs 
  2. Play a major scale on the keyboard
  3. Recognize rhythmic notation and correctly perform rhythmic patterns
  4. Identify treble and bass clefs, and the ranges they indicate
  5. Identify (by sight and sound) basic harmonic intervals
  6. Add correct chord to a given melody
  7. Play tonic, dominant, and subdominant chords
  8. Independently sing melodic ostinato, round, or canon

In the 3rd year (Purple Magic/Orange Roots) we are playing the piano more confidently and learning advanced music concepts

  1. Identify note names on staff
  2. Take simple melodic dictation (write tune on the staff when heard)
  3. Take simple rhythmic dictation
  4. Play accompaniment while singing
  5. Sight-read melodies on the piano
  6. Transpose beginnings level pieces
  7. Play piano with strong beginning skills
  8. Improvise on a melody
  9. Play tonic, dominant and subdominant chords in various major keys
  10. Compose a melody and add chordal accompaniment


Once your child has completed the Let's Play Music program they will have a musical foundation that is solid and will allow them to continue their musical learning in any direction they choose! They will also have learned to do hard things, that practice makes progress, and they will be more ready for other types of learning! 


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