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Where Kids Learn Music
6 Year Old Plays “Hall of the Mountain King”
2.5 Year Old Sings Solfege
Colorful & Accessible Music Lessons
Engage your kids in music learning and play with hundreds of colorful videos designed by real music teachers and parents. We’re the ONLY at-home streaming music program with over 800 effective & powerful lessons for kids 0-12.
Engaging Video Lessons
1,000+ Lessons & Performance Tracks for all ages and multiple beginner instruments
Colorful Curriculum
1000+ cross-curricular PDF activities, resources, lesson plans, sheet music pages and printables
For Kids 0-12
Research backed methods for making the most out of early childhood and elementary school
Practice Makes Prodigies
Music is best learned early. Prodigies teaches music fundamentals through colorful hand-signs, instruments & videos so that all kids can have access to a powerful early music education.
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What’s Inside Prodigies?
Hundreds of colorful lessons where kids will discover…
Solfege Singing
Rhythm
Listening Skills
Deskbells
Music Literacy
Recorder
One Note Studies
Ukulele
Movement, SEL & More
Thousands of Activities
Printables, workbooks, songbooks & lesson plans
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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.
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.
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.
“The early years of life are crucial for establishing a foundation for lifelong music development. A child’s musical experiences from birth to age five have a particularly profound impact on the extent to which she will be able to understand, appreciate, and achieve in music as an adult.“
– The Gordon Institute for Musical Learning
Family Friendly
LESSONS AND LEVELS FOR TODDLERS, PRESCHOOLERS & SCHOOL-AGE LEARNERS
If You Want Sweet Beets, We Got ‘Em
Join Mr. Rob, Ms. Sam, Beet, Cherry and all the Prodigies Bells & Friends in a colorful & engaging world full of music theory that kids & parents love!
How It Works
Join
Join Prodigies for $14.99/mo – cancel anytime – to unlock all of the colorful music lessons across all of our programs as well as new releases, live singalongs with Mr. Rob and so much more.
Learn
Immediately start streaming colorful lessons based on your child’s age and previous musical experience. Most folks enjoy starting in Playtime Prodigies (our primer) or in Level 1, Chapter 1.
Sing
Kids will start by singing about colors, numbers, letters & Solfege with the help of our founders & hosts, Mr. Rob & Ms. Sam.
Sign
To help make the notes more memorable and to bring shy singers out of their shell, we use bilateral hand-signs while we sing melodies.
Play & Grow
Follow along on any C Major instrument (piano, bells, xylo, Boomwhackers) and learn your first instrument in a fun & accessible way. Over time, learn more advanced instruments like Ukulele & Recorder.
What’s in the Ultimate Kit?!
Lifetime Access to Prodigies Streaming Apps (Web, TV, Tablet)
Stream safe, educational & fun music lessons whenever you want without the hassle of a monthly membership. Great for growing families!
($1997 Value)
20 Deskbell Bundle (A5-E7)
All 3 Sets of our world famous Prodigies Deskbells
(C Major, Chromatic, Bass/Treble) combine for 20 notes of colorful, durable, easy to play fun. 2 Year, 3 Bell Replacements Warranty Included
($257 Value)
8 Chapters of Level 1 General Music Curriculum
Level 1 spans almost 2 years of material with lesson plans, sheet music, worksheets & colorful video lessonsÂ
($220 Value)
5 Colorful & Easy to Read Songbooks
The colors in the books match the world’s most popular note-coloring system, Chromanotes(TM). Songbooks included: My First Songbook Volume I & Volume II, Colorful Classics Songbook, My First Chromatic Songbook & Holiday Songbook
($100 Value)
Piano & Bell Stickers, Recorder Pack & Bonus Hand-Sign PosterÂ
Includes Recorder instrument & book to play along with the Prodigies Recorder Series. When your child is ready to transition to a piano, xylophone or any other instrument, you can use these stick-ons so the color-coded music is still relevant + Bonus Solfege Poster.Â
($75 Value)
Free US Shipping + 60 Day ReturnsÂ
Your child’s music education should be stress-free! We offer Free Shipping in the US and 60 Day Returns. Our Five Star Support Team is ready to answer any questions you may have!Â
($50 Value)
Total Ultimate Kit Value: Â $2700
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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.
