About Simply Music
Simply Music is the largest playing-based music education institution in the world. Our unique approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, blues, and accompaniment pieces--Immediately--from their very first lessons. Our students experience learning music in a natural way with a focus on the sheer FUN and pleasure of playing!
Our hands-on approach allows students to quickly build a large repertoire of music in their first year. We allow students to be creative and encourage them to arrange and compose their own music based on the tools they are learning.
How is this program different? Traditional programs often start with teaching students how to read music as the means of learning to play. In that environment, the students ability to decode all of the symbols completely dictates their ability to play. This removes the natural connection between student and instrument and commonly, it removes all the fun, too. In fact, expecting students to read music before they've learned to play is like expecting children to read and spell before they've learned to talk.
Our brains by design are a pattern-seeking device. And if you teach people to see music through the lens of patterns and shapes then the entire learning process changes.
We temporarily delay reading and appropriately introduce a revolutionary, 'playing-based' approach. We teach students how to play by immersing them in the process of playing using unique concepts that unfold directly onto the keyboard, producing unprecedented results.
After about 3 months, students can play an array of musical styles such as classical, blues, accompaniment, and Contemporary. After about a year, imagine a student who can sit down after work or school and play an assortment of blues or even accompany themselves while they sing along or someone else sings along. They're getting all the emotional benefits, the psychological benefits, the sheer fun and pleasure of playing. It's a beautiful form of self expression and it is neurologically powerful.
Do we ever teach them to read music? Absolutely! The goal is for them to not only pick up any sheet of music and learn to play it through by reading, but also for them to have the set of tools needed to map it out onto the keyboard so that it becomes a part of their huge repertoire of music that they love to play! Our students start building a huge repertoire of music from the very beginning and music they read just gets added on to their repertoire. Simply Music Piano gives students the set of tools to quickly get music off the page. Their music goes where they go.
"My boys are 8 and 10. They've had just 12 lessons with Simply Music and already know 12 songs. Not just "Twinkly, Twinkle Little Star' and "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but real music. The boys are already playing the blues. They think they're hot stuff." --Rebecca Neis, Parent.
