Kinder Beat is an outstanding award winning start to music. It features musical activities and skills that 21st century children need for cognitive development and accelerated learning. Setting the benchmark for early childhood music, our engaging characters Kinder Bear, Kinder Roo and Joey, embed fun into the lessons. Each class is a building block ensuring musical enjoyment is extended with each new song.

Lots of creativity, two full-colour workbooks with professional quality CDs, taught in a fun, relaxed classroom environment supported by a Parent or Carer.

• 30-minute weekly class

• Maximum 10 students per class

• A parent or carer must attend each class, siblings can attend morning class

• For more information on the syllabus visit Encore Music

Instruments and Props:

• Music Box, Rainbow Ring, Parachute, Streamers, Hoops, Scarves, Balls

• Flash Cards, Worksheets, Specialised musical interaction via a different character toy each level

• Chime Bars, Puppets, Coloured Felt Strips, Bells, Shakers, Rhythm Sticks, Tambourines

Kinder Beat Piano has set a new benchmark for early childhood piano. Super Cool Mouse is the hip character adding that special dimension to this unique and developmentally precise exploration of the piano.

Each 45-minute weekly, interactive music programme is specifically designed to develop all aspects of early music fundamentals for this most receptive age group. Rhythm is treated as the most important foundation element because it is the basis of all music-making, no matter what instrument or style the child chooses later in life. Appropriate hand and finger shapes is carefully managed and developed while exploring creativity on both the black and white keys, as well as playing rhythmic and melodic ensembles.

• 45-minute weekly class

• Maximum 10 students per class

• A parent or carer must attend each class, siblings can attend morning class

• For more information on the syllabus visit Encore Music

• Pitch through singing and listening

• Movement, gesture and response

• Encouragement of creativity and improvisation

• Body Percussion and Ensemble playing

• Development of Gross and Fine motor skills and co-ordination

• Rhythmic response using Percussion Instruments

• Musicianship skills through songs, rhymes and rhythm

• Listening Skills through Music Appreciation

• Elementary Notation, Rhythmic Reading, Composition and Writing

• Verbal Interaction, Discipline, Self-Control, Concentration, etc

• Music Games and Activities for musical fun and social interaction

• Worksheets and Flashcards

• Learning to work in a Group and develop Social Skills and new friendships

Junior Piano features the lovable Onkie characters, who assist in developing multiple learning layers and whole-pattern learning to promote faster, more accurate learning of music as a language, so children feel and think in musical units. It builds confidence in children because every aspect of learning the piano is purposeful, stimulating, and engaging.

Children are grouped by age in classes.

Junior is specifically designed to encompass a wide range of musical activity in short segments across different “work stations”, which enables concentration levels to be kept at the optimum during the lesson. Our classrooms are equipped with a quality Digital Piano for each student in the classroom, as well as a full range of Percussion Instruments. Magnetic Music Boards for all students simplify theoretical work and all piano pieces are learned with the additional support of Speed Variable Backing Tracks.

• A Parent or Carer sits beside each student and assists with discipline, motivation, and class participation.

• Students must have a suitable Piano/Digital Piano/Keyboard for home practice from the first lesson.

• Maximum 10 students per class

• Children from the age of 7 who’ve had no or minimal previous musical experience begin at Primary.

• For more information on the syllabus visit Encore Music

• Songs for enjoyment, musical expression and musical foundation

• Aural (Ear) – to train the musical ear for faster comprehension

• Singing using words and solfege, to build a library of pitch and melodic patterns

• Percussion – practical experience of learned rhythmic patterning

• Finger Zips to develop keyboard skills on a micro level

• Ensembles to develop part-playing skills

• Keyboard Harmony skills, to play chords, transpose, play by ear, and improvise

Primary is a dynamic, comprehensive series of 2 books (with Speed and Key Variable Backing Tracks,) where children learn to play hands together from the very first lesson! Because it teaches the piano using a “five finger” approach rather than the “middle C” approach, it allows students to learn the piano as both a melodic and harmonic instrument, treating the right and left hands as equal partners and establishing a musical versatility that allows the hands to swap parts with ease.  A wide range of musical styles is experienced from Baroque to Rock and Jazz to Pop.  Primary introduces Finger Taps which establish finger numbers, develop dexterity and reinforce fingering patterns.  They are an excellent way to develop the young musician.

(For more detail see also Junior above)

• A Parent or Carer sits beside each student and assists with discipline, motivation, and class participation.

• Students must have a suitable Piano/Digital Piano/Keyboard for home practice from the first lesson.

• A maximum of 10 children per class.

• For more information on the syllabus visit Encore Music