All Tiny Beats classes are currently held at The Leedy Grange Hall.
Parent participation is required for this class.

All babies are born with an aptitude for music, yet research shows that their aptitude diminishes if it is not nurtured. The best way to cultivate a child's music aptitude is through active music making. Strengthen your bond with your child with singing and dancing in a variety of tonalities, meters and styles as you help your child to reach his or her full music potential.

This class offers caretakers the opportunity to play with their babies in a musical setting, experiencing music and movement activities designed to delight the child and awaken his or her curiosity about music. By singing, dancing, bouncing, and rocking, the child's music aptitude is being carefully nurtured, laying the foundation for beat awareness, vocal production, and aural discrimination.

Activities include singing, bouncing songs, rocking songs, dances, finger plays, body awareness games, echoes and loads of cuddles and smiles.

Family materials include: parent book, musical recordings (CD with digital code) and a baby instrument kit (1 Pair Rhythm Sticks, 1 Rattle, 1 Scarf).

Parent participation is required for this class.

These weekly classes are action-filled for toddlers—full of energy, often on the move, always exploring and learning—and their caregivers. Together you’ll sing, chant, move, dance, listen, and play simple instruments. All activities are designed to bridge the natural connection between music and movement, creating an environment where a child's music aptitude is nurtured and a planned pathway is formed towards musical literacy. This Grown up + Toddler class is designed for both of you to develop a love for music and is a special time for you to be together. 

Each lesson features movement activities for coordination, body awareness and control, exploration of space, and instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, drums, and resonator bars.

Additionally, you’ll receive a wonderful CD with digital code and a family activity book. You also have the option to purchase instruments including rhythm sticks, jingles, finger cymbals and scarves to use at home for more music making together.

 

Preschool children are at a significant point in their musical development. Celebrate their growing independence and love of the outdoors with activities involving the four seasons in The Cycle of Seasons. Developed to build attention and self-expression, activities include singing, chanting, moving, focused listening, musical games, exploring musical instruments, creative movement, and storytelling. The Cycle of Seasons nurtures your growing child’s ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context. In these classes, together with their peers, they will learn the language of music.

Fun family packets including wonderful music recordings (CD with digital code) are included for use at home to increase family involvement in the learning process.

If your child is an ACW student and coming straight from their preschool class, their teacher will walk them over to the music room where we will meet them.   

Parents are invited to attend the last 10 minutes of each class to become familiar with new material and take part in the fun of music making together. 

Music Makers I is a first year class for 4-6 year olds in preparation for piano playing.  

There are two years of playful curriculum for your child to explore and master! Music Makers at Home in the World and Music Makers Around the World.  These classes include singing, creative and structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening, as well as a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression.  The language of music begins to expand from aural learning to visual pattern recognition.

These programs cultivate your child's musical development through songs, tonal and rhythm patterns, poetry and stories, movement activities, listening games, instrumental play and manipulative games. Fundamental music skills such as pitch matching, beat competency, ensemble development, and music notation are taught using themes taken from the child's home environment and natural surroundings for the first year and music from around the world for the second year.

Material packets include a CD, a poster and game pieces, notation games, instrument pages and a book. Children receive 4 packets throughout each  26-week program.

The Musikgarten Group Piano curriculum represents the final stage in the journey toward musical literacy. In the first year, students will be introduced to the piano keyboard, becoming familiar with D, C, and G Major 5-finger positions, as well as d, c, and e minor positions. They will also learn about I and V7 chords for song accompaniment and be introduced to the concept of transposition. This course follows a sequential method to develop piano skills, understand music notation, and establish effective practice habits, complementing the books Music Makers: At the Keyboard, Book One (Red) and Book Two (Green).

This class is taught by Caroline Matthews. She has taught private piano lessons for 9 years to students aged 3-12 and has had to send so many families away due to not having enough time to teach individual piano lessons so she is thrilled to be able to offer Group Piano Lessons!

Here is some information about the lesson content: 

These small group piano lessons offer instrument learning from age 5-9 for budding musicians and lay the foundations for piano playing success through:
-Using an aural approach to learning
-Providing a natural pathway to reading music and building a piano repertoire 
-Developing piano playing technique
-Learning to compose and improvise
-Becoming fluent music readers
-Participating in off-bench activities/games to develop music notation, rhythm, voice tuning and aural proficiency

The Musikgarten curriculum is designed to teach your child to play by ear and to read music. We deliver a 3 - year introductory piano program which divides lessons into six 15-week semesters. Each class is one hour long, with the last 15 minutes devoted to parent participation and group music making/education.  

The Early Music Studio will provide a complete music education through  exploring percussion instruments, playing games and exploring off-bench activities which will develop and build on the student’s piano playing skills. The teacher will engage the children in singing and moving activities which help tune the voice and refine the body to become a rhythmic, graceful instrument to complement their piano playing. Students will play their song repertoire, develop keyboard technique, improve their aural skills, learn to compose and improvise, and become fluent music readers. In developing comprehensive musicianship at the piano, children are building self discipline and cooperation, learning to multi-track and concentrate, which will help them in other areas of study.

Parent Participation: Parents play a vital role in establishing good practice habits at home. For this reason, parents/carers are required to come into the classroom for the last 15 minutes of class. During this time, parents can get the chance to become familiar with new material and it gives the teacher the opportunity to model learning techniques used in this method.

Materials included:

Year One’s curriculum materials includes 2 student books, 14 notation games and 4 CDs (with digital downloads). 

For home practice work, you will receive a listening and practice CD with digital download codes containing special tracks for practice each week. Notation games, repertoire pieces, sight-reading pieces, opportunities for composing, and more are in your child’s comprehensive learning materials that will help them to stay excited about playing and encourage them to make music long after the lessons stop. 

Students will need a either a piano or a keyboard for practice at home (small is okay)  

No class on 10/31, 11/28 and 12/26. There will be the option for a make-up class (for any missed due to sickness) at the end of the semester, on 1/9.

**Please note that we are unable to issue refunds once the class session has started! 

Waitlist - to have your child placed on a waitlist/interest list for the next available class, please email Caroline at caroline@earlymusicpdx.com and fill out this google form:
Group Piano Interest Form
 

An Early Music Studio instructor can come to your location and teach a series of music classes - weekly for continued comprehensive learning or monthly as part of an enrichment program.

Want a free sample class? We can send an instructor to give a sample class. All instruments and materials will be provided by The Early Music Studio. 

For more information on pricing and class content, please email Caroline at caroline@earlymusicpdx.com

Preschools and Childcare Centers can arrange for an Early Music Studio instructor to come to your school. 

Weekly classes for continued comprehensive learning or monthly as part of an enrichment program.

Want a free sample class? We can send an instructor to give a sample class. All instruments and materials will be provided by The Early Music Studio.