Course length: Check with your local school

Class schedule: One class per week

Parent participation: Required

 

 

Curriculum: The in-class musical experiences establish a foundation for musical ability and cultivate a life-long love of music.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Recognizing the significance of fantasy, play, and the imagination in the learning of children of this age, the activities, textbooks, and music are filled with suitable colorful, playful imagery, sounds, and subjects.

 

They are also eager to work with young children and parents. Committed to providing happy, rewarding first musical experiences, these college-trained musicians and educators have passed demanding tests in musicianship while completing rigorous training prior to certification by the Yamaha Music Education System.

 

For students and parents, the course establishes an outstanding foundation and motivation for enriched study and skill development in the Junior Music Course.

 

When you enroll your child in Music Wonderland, you are assured of an excellent first course of musical study. Yamaha has invested over 50 years of music education research in dozens of countries throughout the world. Through Yamaha Music Schools, more than 6 million people worldwide have been introduced to the joy of music.

 

 

Ages of students: 4 and 5 year olds

Course length: 2 years

Class schedule: One class per week

Parent participation: Required (participation enables parent to be an effective "at home" learning partner)

 

 

Curriculum: The in-class musical experiences nurture creativity and help instill the basis for playing and expression through feeling and understanding music. Lesson contents include:

 

Hearing: Listening to wonderful music helps children:

 

• Develop emotional sensitivity
• Develop an ear for music
• Feel and express music in time rhythmically

Singing: Children love to sing! Singing develops:

• Self expression
• Correct tempo, rhythm and pitch
• Understanding of note names

Playing: Performing songs introduces children to the joy of expressing music by themselves. Playing also helps students:

• Get familiar with the five-line staff and keyboard
• Express music with both hands

Creating: Junior Music Course experiences cultivate children's:

• Musical creativity
• Sense of harmony

They are also eager to work with young children and parents. Committed to providing happy, rewarding first musical experiences, these college-trained musicians and educators have passed demanding tests in musicianship while completing rigorous training prior to certification by the Yamaha Music Education System.

 

Once your child has completed the Junior Music Course, he or she will take part in a "Fundamental Skills Survey" to confirm his or her musical achievement. Teachers refer to Survey results to correctly place students in advanced courses of study such as the Junior Extension Course and Junior Special Advanced Course. As the children develop more advanced musical skills, they are also encouraged to express themselves by performing and composing their own music through programs like Junior Original Concert.

 

When you enroll your child in the Junior Music Course, you are assured of an excellent first course of musical study. Yamaha has invested over 50 years of music education research in dozens of countries throughout the world. Through Yamaha Music Schools, more than 6 million people worldwide have been introduced to the joy of music.

 

 

Ages of students: 6-8 year olds

Course length: 2 years

Class schedule: One class per week

Private Lessons: Optional

 

 

Musicianship is taught through the use of a keyboard. students will be involved in the following activities:

• Singing
• Ear Training
• Repertoire (keyboard pieces)
• Ensemble playing (group performance)
• Keyboard harmony
• Arranging
• Keyboard technique
• Sight singing
• Sight playing
• Theory

 

 

 

Private lessons are a great way to get involved with music. Whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced player seeking to improve your technique and knowledge, private lessons give you the time and attention you need to further improve your skills in a much more controlled, personal one-on-one environment.

 

 

Each of our music centers offer one-on-one private lessons for a variety of instruments including the piano, stringed, and woodwind instruments. Our instructors work closely with their students ensuring that they develop an overall strong command of the instrument through learning music theory and building a repertoire of musical pieces.