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Let's Play Music - 3 year program

Let's Play Music is a music theory course that emphasizes total musicianship through piano playing, singing, classical music, note reading and ear training... and it's accomplished through play

Children learn most effectively when they are playing! If you were to peek in on a Let’s Play Music class, you would see jumping, singing, skipping, storytelling, and laughing! Music educators have long taught that the young child learns best through play, experience and discovery. As musical concepts and skills are presented in a playful, joyful setting, children absorb knowledge and ability.

Materials and Fees

Registration: Registration and Tuition varies from studio to studio based on location and teacher.

  • $35/student

Enrollment and Materials: Materials are standard for all students regardless of location



Tuition: Based on location and teacher. Preferred method of payment in my studio: Venmo. Also accept cash or check.

  • 1st year: $240/semester or you may split it into 8 monthly payments of $60/mo.
  • 2nd year: $280/semester or you may split it into 8 monthly payments of $70/mo.
  • 3rd year: $320/semester or you may split it into 8 monthly payments of $80/mo.
  • Presto: $400/semester or you may split it into 8 monthly payments of $100/mo.

Beginners Ages 4-6: Red Balloons and Blue Bugs







In First Year, classes are 45 min. long. A parent or care giver attends every other week with their student. This year sets the theory foundation. 

The focus is internal music skills: 

  • Sing in tune, 
  • Keep a steady beat, clap complex rhythm, subdivide  
  • Recognize I, IV, V chords by sound/structure and their function
  • Solfege (DO, RE, MI) and hand signs
  • Cadence patterns with strong pull to DO 
  • Sing in harmony and Begin to read music through interval note relationships (steps, skips, leaps) with tone bells.

2nd year: Green Turtle Shells and Yellow Arrows




In Second Year, classes are 50 min. long and a care giver attends approx. once a month with their student. Must have completed 1st year to enroll.

The focus is beginning keyboard skills:

  • Transfer skills from 1st year bells and autoharp to the piano
  • Learn keyboard geography and letter names of notes on piano
  • Self-Accompany (Play chords while singing melody)
  • First semester are songs with right hand chords - blocked and broken
  • Second semester adds left hand chords with right hand melody or chords.
  • Sight reading melodic intervals with a puppet named Echo Edna

3rd year: Purple Magic and Orange Roots






In Third Year, classes are 55 minutes long and care givers attend approx. once a month with their student. Completion of 1st and 2nd years required to enroll.

The Third Year Focus is: The Complete Musician

  • Identify note names on the Grand Staff
  • Sight read and improvise with puppet Echo Edison
  • Take rhythmic, melodic and harmonic dictation
  • Play primary chords in 5 keys
  • Transpose beginning level pieces
  • Learn traditional counting and note names (quarter note, half note, eighth notes, sixteenth notes)
  • Musical form and expression through classical music
  • Chord theory and inversions
  • Compose an original piece