If you are trying to find the best Music Education Resource Recommendations–the best curriculum for your home, homeschool co-op, or classroom–take a look at the following reviews and links.
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Piano Lessons:
- Teach Your Child Piano
- Care2Rock
- Practice Monkeys
- Piano Parents Crash Course (to help parents know how best to help their piano students)
- Jessica Peresta’s Online Piano Course
- Piano Wizard
- HomeschoolPiano
- Hoffman Academy
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- Christmas Music Tutorials (piano or guitar)
- Skoove Piano Learning app
- Any Parent Can Teach Piano at Home
- How to Help Your Homeschool Student Be Successful with Piano Lessons
Ukulele Lessons:
Recorder Lessons:
Singing Lessons:
Drums/Percussion Lessons:
Guitar Lessons:
- Gentle Guitar
- Care2Rock
- Acoustic Hymns Guitar Method
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- Christmas Music Tutorials (piano or guitar)
Violin Lessons:
Live Music Lessons (such as through Skype/Facetime/Zoom):
Preschool:
Early Childhood Music and Movement:
Music Education Curricula:
- Who are the Best Composers to Study? free printable
- Composers Download N Go Unit Study from Amanda Bennett
- Meet the Instruments
- Composers Activity-Pak from Homeschool in the Woods
- A Young Scholar’s Guide to Composers by Bright Ideas Press
- Famous Composers Notebooking Pages
- Meet the Instruments Bingo Game
- Meet the Composers with flash cards
- State Songs of the 50 U.S. States online course
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- A variety of courses from Karen Cadera
Music Appreciation Curricula:
- Intro to Musicals online course
- Music Lessons for Holidays & Special Days online course
- 100+ Classical Music Pieces
- A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks to go with Maestro Classics CDs
- The Nutcracker Holiday Study
- Zeezok Music Appreciation Book 1 set
- Holiday Music Studies
- SQUILT Musical Eras and Composer Studies
- Enrichment Studies Composers and Jazz collections
- Beethoven Who?
- We Got Jazz curriculum guide
- Sound Bites ~ Music Appreciation to your Inbox
- Sampler Music Appreciation course
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- A variety of courses from Karen Cadera
Music History:
- Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Thru Classical Era for High School online course
- Music Appreciation of the Romantic Era for High School online course
- 20th Century Music Appreciation for High School online course
- Girls of American History: Life in America in the 1960s
- Sing Some History: Stories of Songs from the Civil War Era
- History of Rock and Roll
- Experience History Through Music by Diana Waring
- Music History of the Romantic Era online course
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Through Classical Era online course
- History of Music: Medieval to Modern
Music Theory:
- Music in Our Homeschool Plus “Beginning Music Theory” course
- Fine Arts in Our Homeschool Plus “Advanced Music Theory” course
- Music Flash Card Game Bundle
- AP Music Theory Exam Prep course
- Schoolhouse Teachers
- Read Music Notes in Six Weeks
15-Minute Music Lessons:
- Full 15-Minute Music Lesson online course
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Memorial Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for “Sleigh Ride”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for “What is a Folk Song?
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Cinco de Mayo
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for President’s Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Aaron Copland
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Johann Strauss Jr.
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Gilbert and Sullivan
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Independence Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Music of Star Wars
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on “Mary, Did You Know?”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for St. Patrick’s Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Valentine’s Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Thanksgiving
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Veterans Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Puccini
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Summertime
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Charlie “Bird” Parker
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Good Friday and Easter Sunday
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on “Carol of the Bells”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Music of the Olympics
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of Birds in Classical Music
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of Pachelbel Canon in D
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson: What is a Folk Song?
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of Instruments Around the World
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on the Opera “La Boheme”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Music Inspired by Outer Space
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of Music Inspired By Shakespeare
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Dvořák and African American Spirituals
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of Music Inspired by Rivers and Seas
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on the Musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on “The Star-Spangled Banner”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for Wintertime: The Piano Guys “Frozen” & Vivaldi’s “Winter”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson for the Song “In the Bleak Midwinter”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of Handel’s Messiah
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Nursery Rhymes
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on T.S. Eliot’s and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on James and the Giant Peach, the Musical
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Annie, the Musical
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Wassily Kandinsky & Synesthesia
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Casey at the Bat
- Free 15-Minute Music Lesson on Seussical the Musical
Hymn Study:
- Great Hymns of the Faith Online Course
- Still Singing: Hymn Stories for Every Season
- Hymns and Creeds Literature Guide from 7 Sisters
- Free “Trust and Obey” Hymn Study
- “All Things Bright and Beautiful” picture book
- Gutsy Girl: Fanny Crosby book review
- All Glory, Laud, & Honor: Seventeen Centuries of Christian Hymns CD from Diana Waring
- Beautiful Hymn Art
Charlotte Mason Inspired Music:
- A Year of Charlotte Mason Music Lessons online course
- Great Hymns of the Faith Online Course
- A Folk Song a Week online course
- How to Teach Music the Charlotte Mason Way
- What is a Folk Song?
Christmas and other Holiday Music:
- Carolling Around the World
- Music of Christmas
- Maestro Classics The Nutcracker
- Nutcracker resources
- Music Lessons for Holidays and Special Days online course
- Christmas Music Tutorials (piano or guitar)
CDs:
- Maestro Classics Casey at the Bat and The Story of Handel
- Maestro Classics The Nutcracker
- Can You Name That Classical Tune? CD
- Maestro Classics Bach and the Pipe Organ
Movies:
Books:
- Talent to Treasure: Building a Profitable Music Teaching Business
- Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World, Book 3 ~ Fanny Crosby
- The Most Fun and Exciting Books and Websites for Studying Music Appreciation or Music History
- How to Use Picture Books to Teach Music in Your Homeschool
Lapbooks:
- A Journey Through Learning’s Lapbooks for Maestro Classics CDs
- Download N Go (Amanda Bennett Unit Study) Composers lapbook
- Composers Activity Pak from Homeschool in the Woods
- Zeezok Music Appreciation
- Music Appreciation Project Pack from Hands of a Child
Apps and Games:
- Apps and Games suggestions
- Staff Wars
- Meet the Instruments Bingo Game
- FlashNote Derby
- Coach Guitar
- Bandimal
- Bandblast
- ABC Music
Other:
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