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About The Young Musician & Preschool Prodigies

Welcome to TheYoungMusician.net. My name is Rob Young and I'm here to get your kids jump started on their musical education!

As a preschool music teacher, I've met a lot of children who love music. Very often, I meet parents who want to start music lessons for their musically enthused child as early as two years old.

Music Lessons For Preschoolers can be tricky due to a child's

- High energy level/short attention spans

- Still-developing sense of motor control

- Still-developing reading comprehension

Preschool Prodigies brings music lessons into your home that

- are age appropriate and kid-TV friendly

- your child will want to do over and over again

- take advantage of a child's unique ability for learning perfect (absoulte) pitch

Like the phenomes of the alphabet, the alphabet of music is made up of pitches and children have the unique ability of learning language into deep memory very easily. This means that children are the ideal candidates for ear-training and absolute (perfect) pitch training.

Get started with some free video lessons here! No credit card or purchase required.

Meaningful Exposure to Individual Pitches

Research, methods and practices from all over the world show that if you give children meaningful exposure to individualized pitches, that they will grow up with a much stronger sense of relative and perfect pitch.

Preschool Prodigies takes the musical games, lessons and methods that are tried and proven for teaching children absolute pitch and turns them into easy-to-follow videos that your child will want to do over and over again.

You will see your childs musical ability soar. Their confidence will increase as they become proud of their new skills and their creative intelligence will grow as they write their own songs and get to tell their own musical story.

Bringing Music Lessons Back to the Classroom

(or Into Your Living Room)

It wasn't long ago that I could not figure out what to teach my growing number of preschool music students. My years as a preschool teacher and my work with Nature Jams, with S Music Studio, with Gymboree Play and Music, and with my own Young Music Studio, landed me with a growing number of private lessons with preschool music students. Most of these students, being 2, 3 and 4 years old, were a little young for typical piano, guitar or drum lessons. Coming off the successes I've had using music to teach everything from kindness to nutrition, I began looking for more and more music that could teach music in an effort to reach this growing population of preschool students.

For three years I tested dozens of beginner/music ed instruments and iPad apps. I tried a six-computer piano lab (eek what a nightmare) and I've poured over tons of books, methods, and videos in the early music education field. I taught as many as 20 lessons/classes per week and developed the music, videos, and games for Preschool Prodigies in conjunction with what worked best for my students. The end result is a series of at home music lesson videos, printables and games based on the following five main principles

1. Due to a childs rapid and deep memory auditory development, consistent and meaningful exposure to Individual pitches will grant a child a strong sense of perfect pitch.

2. Color coded instruments and music help eliminate the need to read music in order to play music. Reading the grand staff is a skill better learned by kids 8+, while the pre-school age group should be focusing on principle 1, for which they are uniquely equipped.

3. Teaching rhythm through catchy call and response songs is the fastest way to develop a childs sense of rhythm.

4. Technology, either in the medium of videos or iPad apps, provide children and parents with an at-their-leisure method for learning music. It also provides for a fun and instantly gratifying means of practice which will mean more practicing, which means more consistent and meaningful exposure.

5. One-to-one instruments (like the piano or the handbells we use) are the best instruments for Young Musicians. Stringed instruments like guitar and violin require that both the left and the right hand work in conjunction and simultaneously, which is more difficult and means that your child will play incorrect notes more often, giving them less oppurtunity to correctly associate and memorize the musical pitches.

Preschool Prodigies