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Sing, Hand-Sign & Play Your Way to an Amazing Music Education
Sing, Hand-Sign & Play Your Way to an Amazing Music Education
550+ Video Music Lessons to Help Kids 2-12 Sing in Tune, Learn Their First Instrument and Understand the Language of Music. $24.99 $12.99/mo. Cancel Anytime.
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“This program has revitalized my 30 year teaching career! Bravo! My students are engaged and learning at a rapid rate. I use this program with my xylophones & Boomwhackers with much success!
Video lessons allow me to float around the room to correct students hand positions and provide one on one instruction where needed. I am able to provide better feed back & it is saving my voice. I ❤️ this program!”
Donna Tugby
Elementary Music Teacher
Lessons for the Young Musician
Teach your kids the fundamentals of music with a colorful & accessible video program that feels a bit like “Blues Clues meets Guitar Hero.”
Prodigies Music Lessons
$24.99 $12.99/mo
550 Music Lessons & Songs for Kids 2-12. Includes All Printable Curriculum. Recommended for Families & Homeschoolers
Prodigies Academy
Starts at $595/yr
Digital LMS with Group Management, Google Classroom Integration & More. Recommended for Schools, Groups & Districts
Curriculum Outline
Discover Over 500 Video Music Lessons. You can select from fan favorite playlists and songs, or dive into Core Curriculum Progressions complete with Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Sheet Music and more. Click here to visit the Index.
Free Introductory Material
FAQs, Getting Started Tips Our Best Parent/Teacher Training & 52 Minutes of Free Content to Demo Prodigies
Getting Started Playlists
Before we dive into the full curriculum, there are a few fan-favorite playlists up top for things like Instrument Free Practice and
Totigies
Totigies is a new series of Solfege Rich music for infants and toddlers that makes great background music to reinforce Solfege and early pitch development.
Playtime Prodigies
Toddler friendly Primer videos that don’t require an instrument and feel a bit more like a TV show for kids than true music lessons.
Hello C
This truly starts the Core General Music Curriculum with a focus on the note C, each individual note, the C Major Chord and the C Major Scale.
Low C, High C
Focus more on the concepts of low and high, left and right, and the interval of an octave as we play more songs with the Low C and High C.
C & G, Best Friends
Discover the important relationship between C and G (Do and Sol – the 1 and 5) as we play lots of C and G songs.
D0 Re Mi
Here we’ll zoom in on the first three notes in the musical alphabet, Do Re Mi, and we’ll play lots of 3 note melodies like Mary Had a Little Lamb and Hot Cross Buns.
Mi Sol La
To start off Level 1B, we’ll focus on the sounds of “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo” — Mi Sol La — which make up dozens of melodies like “Doggie Doggie” & “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring.”
Fa Sol La
Here we’ll play more 3 note melodies, but this time in the key of F Major to give us more practice with Fa Sol and La. Plus, we’ll play some more difficult songs using 6 notes.
Major Chords
Here we focus on the 3 Major Chords, C Major, G Major, and F Major and play lots of patterns using these 3 chords. We also review our 3 note melodies in G Major (Sol La Ti).
Melodies
To finish up Level 1, we play dozens of C Major melodies using everything we’ve learned so far. This combines easier videos with more difficult sheet music as we prep for Level 2.
Hand Sign Playlist
Looking for short and sweet Solfege activities featuring just the hand-signs? We’ve got you covered in this fan-favorite playlist!
Rhythm Playlist
If you want Sweet Beets, we’ve got tons and tons of them inside this tap and clap heavy playlist.
Songs
Looking for “just the songs?” Take a break from the pedagogy and binge-play through the fan favorite songs from Prodigies.
NEW: Piano Prodigies
We’ve started adapting our Level 1 General Music Curriculum to create a more piano specific program inside of Piano Prodigies.
Hello Bells
A more difficult approach to the C Major material we covered in Level 1 featuring more musical vocab, harder songs and more chord analysis.
Intervals & the Treble Clef
A significantly more difficult chapter on intervals, reading black & white music and understanding the nuances of semi-tones.
Recorder Levels 1-3
Take a spin through medieval times with the Squire, Knight & Lordy/Lady Levels of Recorder Prodigies in Recorder Book 1.
Recorder Levels 4-6
COMING SOON: Level 4-5 videos are available with Level 6 videos and the 2nd workbook coming soon!
NEW: Ukulele Prodigies
The first 20 Lessons of a brand-new Ukulele Series has launched! Learn basic chords, play simple melodies and discover Hawaii’s favorite instrument.
Holiday Prodigies
Sing, hand-sign and play with over 20 Holiday classics. Currently includes music for Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter and Passover w new Holiday songs coming soon.
PDF Workbooks, Lesson Plans Checklists, Posters & More
Discover thousands of pages of printable curriculum to help enhance and guide your child’s musical journey!
#MusicMonday Releases
Every Monday we release new Performance Tracks. These range from easy 2 note Borduns to seriously difficult melodies and themes like “Rhapsody in Blue.”
…and more Chapters coming soon!!
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“This is the most incredible thing! Jaime is 5, mostly non verbal…. she has never put more than 2 syllables of anything together unprompted.
I cried when she sang me Solfege and played her bells on the way to bed one night. She has been watching your video for about a month. Thank you for the magical thing that your program has done for her!“
Jacki Walsh
Mom
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“My youngest son developed perfect pitch before he was age 4 by using Mr. Rob’s lessons! He is 5 now , and loves to point what notes his Dad is playing on the guitar.
When he can’t think of the name of a note he wants to hear, he says stuff like “Mom, I want the song that starts with a G Note! Prodigies music lessons are amazing!”
Jenni Lemerand
Mom“I think you’ll be pleased to know that every class my students ask me, “Do we get to watch crazy Mr. Roberto today?” They all love “crazy Mr. Roberto”, and they are all learning a lot of music and having a lot of fun doing it!
Thanks very much for making such great material available. And thank you for opening up some new teaching avenues for me. I’m 50 years old, I have a degree in music, and I’ve been teaching piano since I was 15, but this curriculum has made me a better teacher. Thank you.”
Ann Anderson
Elementary Music TeacherFrequently Asked Questions
What is Prodigies?
Prodigies is a streaming music program for kids.
Whether you’re a parent at home with no musical background, or a music teacher with 20 years experience, Prodigies will help make teaching your kids music easier than ever.
Prodigies combines fun video lessons & songs with easy-to-play instruments (like bells, books, recorder & ukuleles).
How much Does Prodigies Cost?
Prodigies Play, our suite of streaming apps, costs $12.99 per month. Your one membership unlocks all 500+ video music lessons and corresponding curriculum for you and anyone watching in your household.
The $12.99 option is also good for teachers using Prodigies as a front-of-class instruction tool. For student memberships, LMS features and student/teacher reporting, check out Prodigies Academy
Where Can I Watch Prodigies?
Prodigies videos are available in our app, Prodigies Music Lessons to stream on ProdigiesMusic.com and through our app, Prodigies Music Lessons (AppleTV, Roku, fireTV, iOS, Android, Chromecast).
We recommend a colorful set of Deskbells to follow along, which are durable & easy to play.
Don’t have any deskbells? That’s okay!
You can also follow along with the hand-signs or with mallet instruments, a piano, or our free Prodigies Bells app.
Many of the lessons don’t even require an instrument, as we’re often focused singing, hand-signing, tapping, clapping, or listening to musical quizzes.
You can simply get out your bells and play along with the videos, or you can take things further with songbooks, workbooks, lesson plans & group activities. Teachers can even enroll students at a discounted price to enhance their studio offerings & student engagement.
What Instrument Can I Learn Using Prodigies?
Our general music curriculum is built around a combination of singing with the Solfège Hand-Signs, and playing a colorful set of Deskbells.
We love the Deskbells because they’re easy to play & super durable.
Don’t have any deskbells? That’s okay!
You can also follow along with the hand-signs or with mallet instruments, a piano, or our free Prodigies Bells app.
Many of the lessons don’t even require an instrument, as we’re often focused singing, hand-signing, tapping, clapping, or listening to musical quizzes.
You can simply get out your bells and play along with the videos, or you can take things further with songbooks, workbooks, lesson plans & group activities. Teachers can even enroll students at a discounted price to enhance their studio offerings & student engagement.
What’s unique about Prodigies?
Most early music programs focus on movement, songs & life-skills learned through music.
Prodigies instead focuses on music theory, pitch training & playing a pitched instrument during your child’s critical period for auditory development.
We use colors, Solfege, numbers & hand-signs to make the musical notes accessible, memorable and fun.
By focusing on the language of music & music theory while kids are in this critical period for auditory development, Prodigies helps kids internalize the sound of the musical notes to make music almost second nature.
What skills will my child learn by using Prodigies?
As your kids progress through Prodigies, they will develop a variety of musical skills & talents.
- Pitch development through songs, games & activities about the musical notes
- Rhythmic development through fun call and response songs (like Sweet Beets)
- Listening & aural comprehension skills with “Name that Note” & other listening games
- Play their first instrument, either on the Deskbells, xylophone, piano, recorder or Ukulele
- Cross-curriculum skills like patterning, sequencing, early math & hand-writing
- Composition skills using composition activities
In addition to the above skills, learning music will help develop your child’s creativity, problem solving skills, perseverance & more.
Learning a musical instrument helps unlock the recipe for learning ALL skills and with Prodigies, learning music is fun & easy (even for parents and kids with no prior musical experience).
What ages is Prodigies designed for?
Most Prodigies materials are designed for kids ages 2-12, with different video series & course progressions covering different difficulties.
Our Playtime material is expanding the curriculum to infants & toddlers, and our Recorder, Ukulele & Bell Curriculum is progressing into more difficult concepts like intervals, harmonies & roman numeral analysis.
With your video membership, you unlock ALL of the videos for all of the different ages, which makes it easy to get started.
You can can learn more about the scope & sequence in the infographic below.
How do I cancel?
Canceling is super easy from ProdigiesMusic.com/cancel, or from right inside your account.
What People Are Saying About Prodigies
“This is the most incredible thing! Jaime is 5, mostly non verbal…. she has never put more than 2 syllables of anything together unprompted.
I cried when she sang me Solfege and played her bells on the way to bed one night. She has been watching your video for about a month. Thank you for the magical thing that your program has done for her!” – Jacki Walsh
“I think you’ll be pleased to know that every class my students ask me, “Do we get to watch crazy Mr. Roberto today?” They all love “crazy Mr. Roberto”, and they are all learning a lot of music and having a lot of fun doing it!
Thanks very much for making such great material available. And thank you for opening up some new teaching avenues for me. I’m 50 years old, I have a degree in music, and I’ve been teaching piano since I was 15, but this curriculum has made me a better teacher. Thank you.” – Ann Anderson
“I am so happy that I went through my education foundation in our town to get Prodigies for my special education classroom. My students started with the program in January and even though we move at our own pace through it the progress is amazing!
They have always enjoyed music and it is even therapeutic for some but unfortunately the mainstream class is just too challenging.
This program has brought their love of music into my classroom at an appropriate pace, it’s super engaging and they are learning so many skills. All my students have either increased their ability to follow a rhythm or have now learned to keep a rhythm, follow directions, wait to play which is huge and also control their hands.
My students look forward to the music period in our schedule and sing the cya later song ALL the time. They were beyond excited to watch and play the hello song for #worktogetherwednesday.
It has been life changing to find something so perfect for my students who tend to be left out. I am so grateful to have this program and see the joy it brings to my students!
Thank you for creating such amazing resources for a wide range of kiddos.” – Nicole Green
“My youngest son developed perfect pitch before he was age 4 by using Mr. Rob’s lessons! He is 5 now , and loves to point what notes his Dad is playing on the guitar.
When he can’t think of the name of a note he wants to hear, he says stuff like “Mom, I want the song that starts with a G Note! Prodigies music lessons are amazing!” – Jenni Lemerand
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