- Time of lessons: 50 minutes, once a week
- Length of course: 6 – 12 months
- Parent Participation: Required
In this course, your child develops a musical foundation through the experiences of music. Listening to music, feeling rhythm with their bodies, creating sound images with the keyboard. Your child will discover the joy of music through these playful musical experiences.
Listening
As this is a most significant period of aural development, a rich and varied array of listening activities develops sensitivity and listening ability and enables students to perceive music’s power to vividly express images and emotions.
Social Development
Because of the importance of the parent in the life of a child this age, interaction between parent and child is an important focus in the group lessons. Also, through the group lessons children develop the basic skills of relating to other children and adults.
Keyboard Experience
Children experience sound through the keyboard and are introduced to the fun of keyboard playing. Appropriate to this stage in their physical development, initial playing activities engage the use of large motor skills.
