![]() While at a family member’s house, they spotted a harp and asked how it worked. So all they have to do when they walk up to an instrument is figure out where the notes are, and then they can play any of the songs they’ve learned! The boys will eagerly plunk out a melody on a piano whenever one is near–with no fear whatsoever. Though their practice at home so far is only with the desk bells and hand-signs, they have internalized the concept that music is made up of notes–notes which they have learned to call by name. ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I’ve seen so far is that my kids are not intimidated by music.The kids are learning to sing on pitch in a friendly, non-embarrassing environment.My husband can pull out his guitar and the kids can pull out their bells and play together because they’ve memorized the melodies of a handful of songs.They are learning the names of chords and what notes are used to build them.This is something I never knew how to do despite participating in choir as a kid. My kids can translate easily between solfege, color, number, letter names, etc.They now have a complete preschool program (what my kids are working through now), have started publishing lessons in the primary program, have tons of fun supplemental videos in their Melodies series, and are now rolling out lessons for the recorder.įinally, here’s some of the benefits I’ve seen in my children over the past year that we’ve been using Prodigies. The team at Prodigies Music is constantly adding to their program, which means that the money I put down for our membership goes farther and farther.Most teachers wouldn’t dream that teaching all of this at such early ages is possible. While I’m sure the local classes are nice, they aren’t using the Prodigies program–which is colorful, engaging, and focuses not only on meaningful play with pitch to train a child’s ears, but also on learning to translate between the color names, number names, letter names, AND solfege names of the notes of the major scale.This means I have an awesome curriculum (and my kids have a fun music teacher!) available any time it fits our needs or schedule. We have access to all the materials (videos, workbooks, songbooks) both online and as downloadable files for our computer.We can do music lessons every day in the comfort of our own home–this again ups the amount of instruction and guided practice, allowing kids to go deeper and practice regularly without mom having to muster up the energy or having to waiting on the next class day to roll around.This would be even more economical for a larger family. We paid one price for the whole family for life–within just one year of weekly local classes for two children, we would have paid the same amount for FAR less instruction.Here’s why the Prodigies Lifetime Membership beat the local class option hands-down: ![]() ![]() So impressed that after crunching numbers and comparing our options, we bought the Lifetime Membership for our family. ![]() ![]() We sampled the videos they made available for free on YouTube, and I was impressed. We looked at local general music classes, and probably would have gone that route if we hadn’t found Prodigies. But it’s hard to find the time to introduce them to the basics of music theory with my husband’s busy work schedule and the fact that I’m already teaching them every other subject in our homeschool. She had a great time! (It's funny-I don't usually gauge lessons by how much fun my kids had, but I think that it's important to point out that they are really enjoying it AND learning music basics! I love this quote from their website: "Imagine a world where we all understand music as easily as we understand color.In this review I’ll give a bit of history as to how we decided on the Prodigies Music Program for our kid’s education, a discount code for my readers, and then some examples of how our kids have benefited from the program over the past nine months! This post contains affiliate links, but I’ve been promoting Prodigies to friends long before signing up as an Ambassador–you’ll see some of the reasons why I believe in it so much in this post. I even invited my older daughter (who already has some piano experience) to join us because I thought she would benefit from the music theory. There is so much wrapped up in every lesson that I was completely blown away. There is no other way to say it! The educator in me is truly amazed at the amount of research-based methodology that feels like play for the preschooler! During just the first chapter of lessons kids are introduced to three notes, pitch, chords, solfege, quarter notes, rests, long and short notes, and more! But it never feels boring- my kids were captivated by colors, shapes, music, their own bell-playing, singing along, counting, clapping, and more. * The music theory in Preschool Prodigies is incredible. ![]()
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