Let’s Play Music is the premier program for developing the complete musician starting between the ages of 4-6 years. A child’s young brain can absorb high-level musical concepts best at this age range through folk songs, creativity, games, imagination, and instruments geared to their learning abilities. Beginning students learn staff awareness, rhythm reading skills, ear training, and solfege hand signs using engaging approaches and instruments to improve motor abilities. The skills are then transferred to playing the piano while learning chord notation, intervals, and harmonic improvisation. The third year culminates in transposition, sight-reading, and composition with a self-written piece performed in the final semester. Many graduates continue with piano lessons, but some change instruments to guitar, violin, choir, band, etc., learning lifelong musical abilities transcending typical piano learning.

2024-25 Enrollment Information

• Classes start in August of each year. A free trial class is required unless another family member has been in the program. Space is limited — please contact our certified Let’s Play Music teacher, Emily Gibby at 480-289-0510 or emilygibby@letsplaymusicsite.com to be invited to a free trial class.
• The classes are 15 weeks per semester.
  • First-year students learn to sing folk songs, play tone bells and the autoharp, read the lines and spaces on the staff, study classical music, and more. A parent (or another adult) participates every other week (lessons 1, 3, 5, 7, etc). Classes meet weekly for 45 minutes.
  • Green Turtle Shells/Yellow Arrows students begin to play on individual keyboards, building our knowledge of the grand staff, learning notation, improvisation, and spatial understanding of the keys.
  • A grown-up participates monthly with each child. Classes are weekly for 50 minutes.
  • In the third year, we learn all the notes on the staff, self-accompany level 1 & 2 piano repertoire, learn to change key signatures, and finally write a piano composition. Parent (or another adult) participates monthly. Classes are weekly for 1 hour.
• After the free class, enroll online at www.letsplaymusicsite.com using the enrollment ID provided during the class or by scheduling with teacher, Emily Gibby by phone or e-mail.
• Classes are located in the East Valley School of Music Performance Hall.
• We observe the Chandler School Unified District fall, winter, and spring breaks. A recital is held each spring. The recital fee is included in the annual registration fee.
  
  

Let’s Play Music and Sound Beginnings are nationally recognized music programs with instructors located nationwide. We are happy to bring this curriculum to Chandler, AZ. Other teachers in the area can be found online at www.letsplaymusicsite.com.