One purchase. Lifetime access.
One $49 purchase. Everything below is included. Revisit any lesson anytime.
- Ten parent-led listening and music-making sessions — no musical background required
- Ear-training games for beat, melody, rhythm, dynamics, and instrument recognition
- A keyboard-orientation lesson that works with a piano, a small keyboard, or a free piano app
- A biblical reflection on hearing, singing, and offering (woven through the weeks)
- A capstone family performance — a real musical offering, prepared and given (Week 10)
- Completion certificate (ESA-formatted receipt)
- Lifetime access — revisit any lesson anytime
10 weeks, mapped out.
Here's the full arc of the module, week by week, so you know exactly what your family is signing up for.
Sound Is Not the Same Thing as Music
A sound hunt and a one-minute silence — learning to notice sound on purpose, and what turns sound into music.
The Beat Is the Heartbeat
The steady, unchanging pulse underneath every piece of music — found, clapped, walked, and kept.
Follow the Tune With Your Voice
Melody as a shape the ear can follow — tracing a tune's rises and falls, and matching pitch with the voice.
Copy the Pattern
Rhythm Echo — hearing a short pattern of long and short sounds and repeating it back precisely.
Loud, Soft, Fast, Slow: Music Has Weather
Dynamics and tempo — how the same notes feel completely different when a musician changes the weather.
One Song, Many Instruments
The four instrument families and timbre — learning to name which instrument is playing with eyes closed.
Singing Together Is Older Than You Think
Congregational and communal singing — learning a song entirely by ear, together, the oldest way there is.
Find Home on the Keyboard
Middle C and the five-finger pattern — physical orientation on a keyboard, by feel, no notation.
Twinkle Is Older and Weirder Than You Think
One familiar tune learned hands-on, then heard transformed — variation as what composers actually do.
Your First Musical Offering
The capstone: every skill assembled into one small performance, prepared and offered to the family.
Supplies
- —A device that can play recorded music (any phone, tablet, or computer)
- —Household objects for rhythm work (spoons, a pot, a table — nothing to buy)
- —A keyboard for Weeks 8–10: an acoustic or digital piano, a small keyboard, or a free virtual piano app all work equally well
- —A notebook for listening notes
Most families already own these. A full printable list ships with the module.
Scripture does not merely permit music — it commands it: sing to the Lord a new song. This course treats the ear as a gift and singing as something congregations have done together for three thousand years, long before anyone could read notation. A child who learns to listen carefully, keep time with others, and finally prepare a small musical offering for the family is practicing, in miniature, what the psalmists meant by making a joyful noise — skill and offering, not performance and applause.