MUSICSTART®
A PROGRESSIVE LEARNING SYSTEM THAT TEACHES KIDS TO READ MUSIC AND PLAY TUNES BY BALANCING FUN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS
Guitar for Beginners
Learn the basics and foundations of playing the guitar. Technique, scales, chords, melodies, and songs will all be covered. We promise to teach you as many real songs as possible! This class is a great introduction for students who might then proceed to a private teacher. We will get your hands picking, strumming, and fretting. Electric or acoustic guitar is ok (no amplifier required).
Materials: Use a guitar you already own or we recommend First Act guitars (available online) as an inexpensive solution (starting around $35-40).
Designed for children grades 2 & up
MusicStart® Keyboarding
Learn to Read Music and Play Tunes!
MusicStart® is a keyboard-based music learning system that balances fun and development of skills. Using familiar songs, it teaches all the necessary basics to get started playing music. It has 4 instructive attachments (overlays) that vary the challenge from color matching to letter matching to note matching and reading standard musical notation. View our demonstration video at beginmusic.com
Materials: All materials are provided, including instruments and sheet music
Our MusicStart® educational keyboard, which for 15 years has only been available as hardware, is now available online for practicing at home!
Designed for children grades K to 5
REVIEWS FOR MUSICSTART®
"The first semester we ran MusicStart®, I was amazed at the response. Parents were coming into the office and saying how cool and innovative it looked."
–Karen Yucht, director
Teaneck Community Education Center (Teaneck, NJ)
"My daughter is taking a class at PS 372 in Brooklyn. After just one lesson, she is already playing Mary Had a Little Lamb and Jingle Bells. What a great system you have come up with! She loves playing it. It's the first thing she grabs when she gets up in the morning."
–Marianne Itak, MusicStart® parent
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
-Stevie Wonder (1950-)