Music Programs
Homeschool Music programs for all levels
We offer a variety of homeschool music programs along the front range of Colorado.
Designed to explore and ignite a love for music
Affordable Music programs for families
Our program is designed keeping families in mind. A wide variety of classes offered in one day allow students to take multiple classes.
Ignite the fire in your student knowing our affordable music program for families will allow multiple ages and skill levels of students to find the classes they need, all within the same day and convenient time frames.

General Music
Beginner music classes to teach foundational music literacy and appreciation through exploration, games, and rote learning. Skills taught are pitch matching, solfege with Curwen hand signs, basic music reading, folk songs, sacred songs, singing in a round, partner songs, comparatives (high/low, same/different, fast/slow, soft/loud), beat, rhythm, dynamics, phrases, most notes and rests. Music history and introduction to instruments will be included as well. (If an ensemble requires General Music as a prerequisite, 2 years of private study can exempt child from taking this class.)
What your Student Will Learn
- Foundational Music Literacy
- Basic Music Reading
- Multiple types of music genre
- Music History
Is your student ready?
Student readiness is important to run a successful music program. Your child must have these developmental skills in order to join the General Music Class.
- Be able to read or parent must be willing to be present in class & work with student at home
- Ability to focus on verbal instructions
- Self-control and patience when instructors are working with other section of class
- Ability to follow simple instructions by instructors.

Pre-band
What is pre-band??
Pre-Band is an invitation only class. Students in General Music will take a Music Aptitude test six to seven weeks after classes begin to decide readiness for this class.
Pre-band is for younger students aspiring to be in band. In this age range, students are not physically able to play or even hold full-size instruments.
Pre-band uses NUVO instruments which are lighter and downsized for younger students and prepares them for the like band instrument such as the Clarinet, Sax, Brass and Flute. Those students wishing to play percussion can use a bell set or glockenspiel. Pre-band can be repeated yearly until they are ready to move to Beginning Band.
What your student will learn:
- How to follow a conductor
- Ensemble performance
- Music notation
- Reading music while playing
Is your student ready?
Student readiness checklist and requirements for Pre-band
- Ability to focus on verbal instructions
- Self-control and patience when instructors are working with another section of class
- Students should be prepared to practice a minimum of 10 minutes per day
- Besides the above qualifications, students enrolled in General Music will be given a music aptitude test 6-7 weeks after classes begin. Those students who score adequately on this test will be given the opportunity to join Pre-Band

Choir I-Bella Voce
Skills taught will build on what students have learned/are learning in General Music class and will also be taught phrases, pitch matching, absolute pitch names, solfege skills, putting solfege on the staff, music reading, rhythm reading, note names, two-part singing, all notes and rests, beginning breathing techniques, vowel formation, dynamics, and diction. There will be two formal concerts per semester.
Students ages 5 and Up will experience making music together, learning music reading through solfege, and expressing themselves through movement.
What your student will learn in Choir I
- Reading music by introducing solfège (Do-Re-Mi)
- Phrasing, Breathing Technique and Vowel Formation
- Rhythms and Note Names
- Diction and Dynamics
- Perform and Develop Stage Presence

Choir II-Cantare
Is your student ready?
Advanced music class and choir for middle school and high school aged students. Skills taught will build on what students have learned in past classes and will also include some two but mainly three-part singing, singing with dynamics, phrasing, articulation, solfege skills, breathing, diction, singing in a variety of languages, sight reading, and small ensemble singing. There will be two formal concerts per semester and the ensemble will participate in Homeschool Music Fest Days.
What your student will learn in Choir II
- Two and three part singing
- Diction, Phrasing and Articulation
- Dynamics and Breathing
- Sight Reading and Solfege Skills
- Growing Performance and Stage Presence

Orchestra I
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Bass
This class is designed for students with little or no experience.
Students will learn the basics of how to care for their instruments, proper technique, posture and bow hold which will lead to the production of a good quality sound. Each student will learn the notes for their specific staff (treble, alto, bass). Whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth note rhythms will be introduced and the D and G Major scales, as well. The class will learn and perform as an ensemble.
What your Student will learn in Orchestra I
- Learn how to care for their instrument
- Holding the bow
- Finger placement on each string
- Note and rest values using a time signature
- Reading notes on staff using the clef of their instrument
Orchestra II
Intermediate Orchestra is for those who have completed Orchestra I and can demonstrate such skills in the placement audition, to take place before classes begin. Students will improve music reading and music theory skills, more Major scales using the Circle of Fifths and key signatures. Minor scales will be introduced along with more complex rhythms and dotted rhythms. Bowing techniques will continue to be honed. Playing and performing with the entire ensemble, opportunities to play in duets, trios and quartets are just some of the things students have to look forward to!
What your Student will learn in Orchestra II
- Improve music reading skills
- Advanced scales and key signatures
- Eighth and Sixteenth note rhythms
- Dotted rhythms (half, quarter, & eighth notes)
- Staccato bowing
- Slurring
- Using L.H. lower half, U.H. upper half bowing

Percussion: Drumline I & II
Drumline Requirements
Drumline I is available to all students with at least a year of music experience, to include the understanding and reading of rhythms with whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and whole, half, quarter and eighth rests
Drumline II will require an audition and/or director approval from Drumline

Beginning Band
No music experience needed. Students should be prepared to practice 20-45 minutes/day, as we progress through out the year. Perseverance & patience are the skills needed for success while developing most skills. Playing a musical instrument is no different!
Instrument Options
**Some instruments may be too large for student to start on until they grow. There are usually smaller instruments in the same family that a student will learn on that will prepare them for the larger instruments.
- Flute**
- Oboe
- Clarinet/ Bass Clarinet**
- Alto, Tenor**, Bari** Saxophones
- Bassoon
- Trumpet
- French horn
- Baritone**
- Trombone
- Tuba**
- Percussion

Intermediate Band
Intermediate is for students that have successfully completed Beginning Band. A Placement Audition is required before classes begin.
**Students should be prepared to practice no less than 30-45 minutes/day, 5-6 days/week.
Is your student ready?
Requirements and audition information for Intermediate band:
- Concert Bb, Eb Major Scales
- Placement Audition will take place before classes begin
- Sight reading included in placement audition
- Students should be prepared to practice 30 minutes / day minimum

Music history-Journey Through Music
Students will be taken on a music journey beginning in ancient times all the way through to the present, starting with where music began. These young musicians will grow their understanding with music vocabulary, composer and composition recognition and the differences between musical genres.
Colorado Springs only.
What Students will learn in Journey Through Music
- The Beginning of Music
- Music Vocabulary
- Composers and Composition Recognition
- Differences between Musical Genres

Percussion Fundamentals
Who should take this class?
- This is the Beginning Band class for new percussionists
- Students who have 1 year or less experience on percussion or in drumline
What Students will learn in Percussion Fundamentals
- Stick Grip
- Basic Percussion Rudiments
- Sticking Technique variations for the different percussion instruments
- Mallet Percussion Skills

Our Talented team of music Instructors
Our instructors have decades of experience in various areas of music.