Do you have a little Beethoven at home? Follow those interests! There is so much that your child can do with this talent.
These are just a few business paths involving music:
- Start a DJ business.
- Jingle writing.
- Tutoring.
- Independent contractor.
We’ve pulled together some amazing resources to help foster your child’s musical talent!
Resources for younger children:
- School of Rock – School of Rock’s Little Wing music program teaches your toddler or preschooler fundamental music and life skills through unique and engaging musical activities that build teamwork, cooperation, and spark the imagination. In each class, your preschooler will explore making and noticing patterns, singing and tonal processing, short- and long-term musical memory, understanding sound and silence, playing with song structure and dynamics, and improving auditory focus and listening skills. Programs differ by location.
- Prodigiies Music Lessons – Prodigies Music Lessons YouTube channel is full of interactive preschool learning videos that get kids singing, hand-signing and playing their first instrument. We sing about the musical alphabet, about Solfege, about scale numbers and colors! Your kids will learn how to play their favorite preschool songs and you’ll be amazed at how fast their musicality will develop.
- Squilt Music– Super Quiet unInterrupted Listening Time: Children learn music appreciation with live lessons, a monthly listening calendar, and other benefits. They learn to appreciate and identify music, and read musical notes.
Resources for older children:
- Guitar Tricks: Learn to play acoustic or electric guitar in virtually any genre. Monthly Subscription – over 11,000 video lessons, 1,000+ songs
- Piano in a Flash: 6 Courses made up of video tutorials and books, that take roughly 2 years to complete. They offer a free trial class if requested.
- Mix Major: Through Mix Major, kids, teens, and now adults learn Electronic Music Production: making beats, creating chords, writing melodies, and composing remixes and original songs. Students learn how to create music that sounds like the music they listen to. No experience is required. No performance is required. Just a love for music and a love for creating.
FREE Lesson Plans;
- Music Theory Lesson Plans – a series of music lesson plans devised for Middle and High School music classes designed to take a student from a situation in which they have no functional knowledge of music theory to place where they have a “joined up” knowledge of note naming, intervals, scale construction and how scales and chords allow us to understand keys.
- Maestro Classics – Maestro Classics Stories in Music™ are stories set to classical music. Great performances by one of the world’s leading orchestras, plus historical and musical educational tracks, guide parents and children effortlessly into the world of classical music. Designed to cultivate a love of music, this award-winning series will develop listening skills and expand listening horizons.
- Hoffman Academy – free online piano lessons guide you step-by-step from absolute beginner to confident musician. Learn from the comfort of your own home, on your own schedule, at your own pace.
Brett Pike is the Author of the Cubs to Bears book series.
He is also the creator of Classical Learner’s Homeschools Connected community & curriculum – bringing together thousands of like minded people and providing them the resources to give their kids an education worthy of freedom. You can learn more about Homeschools Connected here.