Lessons for the Young Musician
800+ award-winning video lessons
For parents and music teachers around the world, Prodigies is the easiest way to teach children age 2-12 music. Your child will learn music literacy, music theory, pitch training & their first instrument(s) during the critical period for auditory development.
Teach Kids Music
1000+ award-winning video lessons.
For parents and music teachers around the world, Prodigies is the easiest way to teach children age 2-12 music. Your child will learn music theory, pitch training & their first instrument(s) during the critical period for auditory development.
Sing, Sign, Play
Demystifying music lessons
Prodigies makes learning the language of music fun, easy & digestible. We do so by giving each note various names; for instance, the note C is: “C”, “Do”, “Red”, “1” & has it’s own hand-sign. With so many ways to hear & reference musical notes, children build confidence as they learn & internalize the musical alphabet.
Sing, Sign, Play
Demystifying Music Lessons
From singing with echo songs, to hand signing with Solfege, to playing your first instrument, Prodigies makes the language and art of music fun, digestible and easy to learn.
Over 800 Video Lessons
Non stop musical fun
Whether you’re a bouncing baby clapping along with “Sweet Beets” or a pre-teen woodshedding “The Hall of the Mountain King,” better musical skills are just a few minutes away with Prodigies.
What’s Inside Prodigies?
Hundreds of colorful lessons where kids will discover…
Solfege Singing
Rhythm
Listening Skills
Desk bells
Music Literacy
Recorder
One Note Studies
Ukulele
Movement, SEL & More
Bold, Accessible & One of a Kind Sheet Music
Demystifying music with color and error-proof materials
Most sheet music, even colorful sheet music, is created with sheet music software like Sibelius. But not ours!
We spend a TON of time working to make our sheet music big, bold, colorful, and arranged for beginners. We use a combination of icons, colors and fixed spacing to make music easier to read than ever.
If you’re a parent at home, you’ll LOVE reading this sheet music with your kids. And if you’re a music teacher in the classroom, we hope you feel that sense of “wow, this is EXACTLY what I would have made if I had the time. Thank you!”
Printable songbooks for different levels and seasons
Beginner melodies, nursery rhymes, classical music, Spanish favorites & holiday jammers
In almost every songbook you’ll find sheet music that uses the colors, the note names, the solfege hand-signs, beat boxes to help you and your learners understand the music more easily.
There’s hundreds of songs, dozens of songbooks and collections and a full curriculum worth of step by step pedagogy for young musicians, ALL inside our digital membership (or available as hard copy books in our shop).
Curriculum Workbooks, Lesson Guides & Cross-Curricular Activities
3 years of step by step curriculum with lesson guides, sheet music, activities, cut outs, posters, challenges and more
While some folks stick to quick-win playlists and song studies inside Prodigies, most of our members dive into the core General Music curriculum featuring in Prodigies Music Level 1 and 2.
Here, we moved week by week through 4-6 videos focused on a lesson essential question. We start with simple 1 note songs and rhythm activities, and build up to playing impressive melodies on. the bells, piano, or any C Major instrument..
Each Week also comes with cross curricular activities for early writing, color identification, early composing, early literacy and early math. This helps to draw deeper connections to music and extend your learning off the screen even further.
Teach Kids Music
750+ award-winning video lessons.
For parents and music teachers around the world, Prodigies is the easiest way to teach children age 2-12 music. Your child will learn music theory, pitch training & their first instrument(s) during the critical period for auditory development.
Our Philosophy
Early exposure to pitch
Develop a strong tonal center by focusing on the individual musical notes during a child’s formative years.
Brain-based vocabulary
Memorize the sound of the musical notes by learning them through hand-signs, numbers & colors.
Error proof learning
With color-coded instruments, videos & curriculum, children have more opportunities to get it right! We want to inspire confidence & positivity in these early, formative years.
What’s Inside Prodigies?
Hundreds of colorful lessons where kids will discover…
Solfege Singing
Rhythm
Listening Skills
Reading Music
Singing Tunefully
Recorder
One Note Studies
Ukulele
Movement, SEL & More
Prodigies in Action
With Prodigies
Your Kids Will
Develop an amazing sense for music and…
Sing IN TUNE
Kids LOVE to sing! Prodigies makes it easy to develop their voice by singing simple songs about the musical notes.
LEARN AN INSTRUMENT
Whether you’re using desk bells, a xylophone, a piano, a ukulele, a recorder or your voice, Prodigies has you covered!
HAND-SIGN w/ SOLFEGE
By combining Solfège (Do Re Mi) with easy to remember hand-signs, kids connect the abstract sounds of the musical notes to concrete & memorable motions.
DEVELOP PITCH
Our goal is to give young children as many chances to interact with musical notes as possible. In order to develop pitch, repetition and consistency are key. This is especially important before age 7. Our color-coded materials make for tons of practice with isolated pitch.
DEVELOP RHYTHM
It’s time for everyone’s favorite: Sweet Beets! Rhythm practice can be as simple as clapping in time, but we make it fun. We introduce rhythm first with silly fruits & veggies, then advance to Ta and Ti Ti (Kodaly), and up through standard rhythmic subdivisions (1e+a 2e+a).
COMPOSE & IMPROV
Using colorful instruments and music makes it easy to get kids performing, composing and improvising in a very real way. Each lesson includes performance instruction and opportunities for learners to compose.
COLORFUL, EFFECTIVE, FUN
Prodigies Features
Prodigies features a growing library of video lessons, courses, curriculum downloads & colorful sheet music.
Holistic Music Approach
We combine hand-signs, colorful bells, recorder, ukulele, Boomwhackers & more for a fun, well rounded and whole-musician approach.
Video Lessons TO MAKE LEARNING MUSIC EASY
With the look and feel of a TV show, Prodigies is fun & easy for kids ages 2-12.
Colorful Video Sheet Music
Teacher-free video with colorful sheet music. Designed with performance in mind, great for multiple instruments & kids.
Lesson Plans & Curriculum
Print out lesson plans, checklists, sheet music, worksheets & more to enhance your musical journey!
1 Login Per Family
Use one login for your whole family and enjoy unlimited streaming of all videos!
Course Progressions
Step-by-step course progressions help guide you through different notes, levels & instruments.
PERFECT FOR
Parents, Teachers, Therapists & educators of All Kinds
For Families
Even if you know very little about music, you’ll be able to give your kids an amazing musical head start (while probably learning a lot yourself!) Your kids will sing more in tune, learn an instrument & your home will come to life with music!
For Homeschoolers
Prodigies is easy to use with multiple kids and you only need one account! Plus, you can print as many worksheets & checklists as you need to show your work and take the videos further.
For Music Teachers
Music teachers love our focus on Solfege, Orff-inspired instruments & Kodaly concepts. Experienced teachers will immediately understand the concepts, patterns & approaches we take, so you can dive into group lesson plans, worksheets, performance prep & more.
For Therapists & Adaptive Music
By being colorful, rhythmic & formatted for early readers, Prodigies makes music lessons more accessible than ever. We’ve seen non-verbal kids sing Solfege, play the bells and so much more.
For Early Childhood Educators
Early Childhood Educators already understand the power of teaching through song. Prodigies empowers you to teach music itself. Preschool children are in their critical period for auditory development which means you can have an exponentially larger impact on a child’s long-term musical ear.
For District Admins & Studios
If you’re looking to roll out a colorful, approachable and effective music ed solution, we have group plans and bundles to help you implement Prodigies at scale.
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Prodigies Music
$24.99/mo
$12.99 / mo
Stream hundreds of 3-7 minute music lessons covering solfege, scales, steady beat and more over a series of 10 Core Chapters. Perfect for kids ages 2-12 with new episodes being released regularly.
Discover more difficult instruments in curriculum mini-series like Recorder Prodigies, Ukulele Prodigies, and Piano Prodigies.
Download and print workbook materials to take the video curriculum further with composition activities, early writing and matching games, colorful sheet music and more.
Workbook PDFs also include parent/teacher lesson guides to help facilitate more learning in one on one or group settings.
Stream hundreds of 3-7 minute music lessons covering solfege, scales, steady beat and more over a series of 10 Core Chapters.
Join over 3,000 parents and teachers who are actively teaching with Prodigies Music to discuss lesson ideas, song requests, vote on new features and interact with like minded music loves.
Prodigies Lifetime
$1597
$597
Stream hundreds of 3-7 minute music lessons covering solfege, scales, steady beat and more over a series of 10 Core Chapters. Perfect for kids ages 2-12 with new episodes added regularly.
Discover more difficult instruments in curriculum mini-series like Recorder Prodigies, Ukulele Prodigies, and Piano Prodigies.
Download and print workbook materials to take the video curriculum further with composition activities, early writing and matching games, colorful sheet music and more.
Workbook PDFs also include parent/teacher lesson guides to help facilitate more learning in one on one or group settings.
Stream hundreds of 3-7 minute music lessons covering solfege, scales, steady beat and more over a series of 10 Core Chapters.
Join over 3,000 parents and teachers who are actively teaching with Prodigies Music to discuss lesson ideas, song requests, vote on new features and interact with like minded music loves.
Download hundreds of curriculum MP3s for more screen free practice and backing tracks.
Additionally, Lifetime comes with 25 MP4 downloads of our most-popular performance tracks to use with your group offline in rehearsals or concerts.
For most folks, Prodigies Lifetime is a one and done deal that sets you up for years and years of colorful music lessons.
For schools and districts looking for more FERPPA/COPPA/Cyber compliance, our new LMS Prodigies Academy is available at ProdigiesAcademy.com.
If Lifetime Members decide to upgrade to Prodigies Academy, we pro-rate 100% of their Lifetime Membership fees to their schools upgrade.
INSTRUMENTS
Practice & learn with a Variety of Instruments
The core curriculum focuses on bells that are colorful, easy & fun to play.
While they are ideal for beginners & children with special needs, they are also expressive enough for mature players.
Find our deskbells here.
The core curriculum focuses on bells that are colorful, easy & fun to play.
While they are ideal for beginners & children with special needs, they are also quality and expressive enough for mature players.
Look for Chromanotes(TM) colored Deskbells On:
Amazon.com
OptimumPercussion.com
Musicinmotion.com
Prodigies combines singing Solfege (Do Re Mi etc) with simple hand-signs to make pitch development concrete, memorable & fun.
This way, you always have an instrument with you!
The hand-signs help to make the abstract idea of pitch more concrete and memorable.
Plus, by combining two hands with our voice, we’re activating multiple areas of the brain for more points of access to pitch.
Go digital with our free Prodigies Bells App!
The app features a C Major Scale & a more Chromatic instrument.
Digital bells are also available on our site, or you can download the standalone bell apps below.
Available on:
iTunes Store
Google Play
Learn to play your first wind instrument with our medieval themed series Recorder Prodigies.
We recommend the Aulos 3 Piece Student Recorder, but any decent soprano recorder will work.
Available on:
The core curriculum focuses on bells that are colorful, easy & fun to play.
While they are ideal for beginners & children with special needs, they are also quality and expressive enough for mature players.
Look for Chromanotes(TM) colored Deskbells On:
Amazon.com
OptimumPercussion.com
Musicinmotion.com
Discover Hawaii’s favorite stringed instrument in ukulele Prodigies, a colorful introduction to the ukulele.
When starting with a Ukulele, we recommend choosing a soprano, concert or tenor ukulele to begin.
Available on:
Prodigies works wonderfully with xylophones, glockenspiels & other mallet percussion.
Mallets present more challenging alternative to the deskbells, which is good for kids ages 5+.
Add some colorful stickers for a more error-proof instrument.
Available on:
You can also follow along with a piano, and we recommend color coding your keys with Chromanotes Stick Ons.
Note that Piano Prodigies IS NOT yet available, though the bell lessons are easily followed by piano as well.
Available on:
The core curriculum focuses on bells that are colorful, easy & fun to play.
While they are ideal for beginners & children with special needs, they are also quality and expressive enough for mature players.
Look for Chromanotes(TM) colored Deskbells On:
Amazon.com
OptimumPercussion.com
Musicinmotion.com
Most of the rhythm lessons in Prodigies can be followed by tapping, clapping & stomping.
However, if you want to make it a little more fun, look for some of the popular kids percussion instruments listed below.
Available on:
Remo Kids Drums on Amazon
More Percussion from RhythmBand.com
A standard in the music education classroom, all of our materials match the colors for Boomwhackers.
These musical tubes are great for large groups, movement activities, and playing 1 or 2 notes by yourself.
Available on:
HUH?!
Frequently Asked Questions
Busy parents wanna know…
For quick wins that are low pressure for you and your kids, open up Prodigies and work though our quick start playlists or our long play videos. This can take as little as 4 minutes for a video or as long as 40 minutes.
If you’re ready for step-by-step lesson plans, check out Prodigies Music Level 1A, grab the corresponding workbook PDF (or textbook from our shop) and use the 45 minute weekly lesson plans provided.
Using the weekly lesson plans, you’ll be able to stay consistent with music practice each week. This can be something to look forward to every week, and will make working through Prodigies a successful routine for you and your young musicians.
For quick streaming and all video lessons, you can easily stream through our app Prodigies on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku4k, and fireTV.
Our web platform at Prodigies.com contains all the same videos, plus additional features like sheet music, printable resources and curriculum activities.
You don’t NEED an instrument to start. There are instrument free lessons to begin, instrument free playlists and there’s even a digital instrument on our website.
That said, having an instrument will help your child’s skills and engagement significantly. This can be Chromanotes Deskbells (or Prodigies Deskbells when they’re in stock), any piano with color-coded stickers, or any kind of xylophone or C Major instrument.
There are also lessons specific to ukulele and recorder, and naturally you’ll want those instruments for these technique heavy courses.
Then you’re about to have a lot of fun learning music!
No, but seriously… it’s easy, it’s fun and you can TOTALLY facilitate this program with your kids. We start out with easy echo songs about numbers, colors and solfege (do re mi) which make it super easy for anyone to follow.
Prodigies focuses on the fundamentals around pitch and rhythm using iconic notation, which means it won’t require you to read music. We focus largely on the notes and the chords — stuff most 7-12 year olds learn in piano lessons — we just do it with colors and hand-signs and bells that make it easier for younger age groups.
The videos and listening activities are fun and effective for kids throughout early childhood.
At 1 year old, they’ll start tapping a steady beat and singing “Do” and “Hello C.”
By age 3, they’ll be hand-signing with Solfege and ready for the activities and worksheets.
By age 5, they’ll be recalling notes, playing melodies, practicing chords and crushing aural comprehension games.
By age 7, they’ll be playing more complex melodies, performing on their instrument and singing tunefully with confidence.
While every child’s musical journey is different, there is a wealth of evidence that shows that pitch exposure and a music education before age 6 can do some incredible things for the brain (like unlocking the skills associated with perfect pitch).
That’s why we encourage folks to start early, take breaks if you need to, and keep revisiting music lessons throughout your child’s development. Our own kids have gone through phases with the program and that’s 100% okay!
Think of Prodigies like Netflix for educational music lessons. There are some programs that everyone will enjoy, some programs specifically for infants and toddlers and then some more advanced material as well.
Our platform currently only supports 1 profile per account, so while you can see your progress and where you left off (and even favorite videos and games), there isn’t a way to track multiple kids in one account.
To help with tracking individual progress, we have printable checklists & calendars that you can use for each kid to track their musical journey.
A lot of our core lessons focus on hand-signing with Solfege and then performing that melody on bells or xylophone. Siblings can alternate playing a single instrument with doing the hand-signs, or they can split up the bells to work together. There are performance tracks with multiple parts and instruments so you can easily make your own ensemble.
Music Educators Ask…
Level 1 of our General Music curriculum is almost entirely in C Major (where Fixed Do and Movable Do are the same). So that’s nice!!
In Level 2, we have both Fixed and Movable Do variations of the core curriculum and performance tracks. While we believe in the teachability of absolute pitch through Fixed Do, we also understand that Movable Do is more widely adopted by classroom teachers and music educators for a variety of reasons.
From our experience, children who grow up with Prodigies prefer to stay in the Fixed Do system, where kids who are just coming into music during elementary school are better served by Movable Do.
Furthermore, as the program progresses into Level 2, we lean into singing about the scale degrees more and more to help distinguish between Movable and Fixed concepts.
The earlier elements of our curriculum around patterns, numbers, letters, phonics and music are largely inspired by Head Start Standards and guidelines set forth by NAEYC.
The elementary level curriculum inside Prodigies is more aligned with NAfME Music Standards and guidelines.
While Prodigies Lifetime gives teachers TONS of material to tackle the standards, Prodigies Academy is our true standards-aligned digital curriculum for K-5. There you can filter, search and sort by state standards, and even make your own lessons to fill any gaps specific to your program.
If you have mallet instruments, percussion, recorders, ukuleles, Boomwhackers, or any combination of those, you’re going to LOVVVVVEEEE working with Prodigies.
You can jump into the lessons or songs featuring those instruments, or pull up performance tracks that feature multiple instruments to get your ensemble playing together.
By having your kids follow our colorful and fun-to-play sheet music style, you’ll have more freedom to save your voice and float around the room assisting and assessing students one on one.
Um yeaa!!!
We work closely with Rhythm Band Instruments and Chromanotes and we do our best to match the colors we use to the colors they use.
If you find KidsPlay colored instruments (which feature a blue instead of a teal for the note G), these are NOT the same colors. That said, they’re reasonably close and we’ve seen a lot of families and classrooms adjust to make it work.
The colorful and upbeat nature of Mr. Rob & Prodigies often leaves older kids and elementary school teachers wondering… “is this legit enough for 4th & 5th graders.”
And the answer is YES!! Inside the general music curriculum, we have lessons and curriculum covering Mi Sol La, C Major songs, Intervals in C Major, Chords in multiple keys, melodies from Gershwin, Beethoven & more.
Prodigies Lifetime unlocks our streaming video curriculum and PDF library, as well as a few bonus games and resources.
This does NOT include student accounts, Google Classroom integration, or digital interactions more typical of an LMS.
These additional hybrid learning features ARE available from our sister company, Prodigies Academy.
If you’re a K-5 music educator who enjoys Prodigies Lifetime, we would be happy to give you 30 Days Free to Prodigies Academy and we’ll even apply whatever money you spend on Prodigies Lifetime to your school’s first year of Academy access.
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We’re always taking song requests, ideas for lessons & feedback of all kinds. As Prodigies grows, you get more videos, lessons & features for the same monthly price.
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“Thank you for the magical thing your program has done for my daughter.” – Jacki Walsh
“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
“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
“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