👏 How to start music at home with no instrument
You already have the first instruments: voices, hands and feet. Sing every day, clap rhythms back and forth, listen to music together and talk about it, and learn note names on a screen. When a child is hooked, then think about an instrument.
Sing
Sing simple songs together, the ones with lots of repeats. Sing high and low, loud and soft, fast and slow. The sing-along has songs read at each child's level.
Clap and stamp the beat
- Put on a song and clap on every beat.
- Clap a short rhythm and have your child clap it back. Then swap.
- Try body percussion: clap, pat your knees, stamp your feet, click your fingers, in a pattern.
- Play with Beat Buddies to build a rhythm on screen.
Listen together
Listening is a skill. Play a piece and ask: is it fast or slow? Happy or sad? Which instrument do you hear? The listening games and listening maps make it a game.
Learn the notes
The Note names game teaches where notes sit on the staff and the keyboard. Ten minutes a day is enough.
Make something new
Composing is not just for grown-ups. In the Beep Boop Studio, a child can make a tune and a beat and play it back. Making music, not only copying it, is what keeps many children coming back.