Bucktown Music

🎶 4th of July Break Reminder! 🎶
We’ll be taking a short break this week but we will miss seeing all of our wonderful students! 💛✨

📅 Be sure to double-check your schedule — Private lessons and Kindermusik have different days off!
Enjoy your time off, and we’ll see you soon for more music-making fun! 🎵

The graduation bear and the drum are ready for a day full of music and celebration! 🎶✨
The last week of the month is always extra special — filled with bubbles, beats, and big milestones as our students graduate to the next level!
We’re so proud of all the growth, joy, and music we’ve shared this month. Let’s finish strong and have some FUN!

We’d love to introduce our wonderful family of the month, the Lilley family! We have had the joy of teaching all three of the Lilley kiddos over the past 6 years, and it is such a blast to have them in class! They are all so sweet, playful and curious, and we also adore their amazing parents and nanny. We are so grateful to have them in our musical family and can’t wait to see how they will continue to grow in the coming months and years!

Give these sweeties a double tap! 💜🥰

One of our Playful Pianists classes is working on building rhythms together, and then playing them together on the piano! We build 4 beat rhythms using quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests and then each child finds a C note on the keyboard, and then we all play the rhythm in unison. They are doing beautifully keeping a steady beat and listening so that they stay together! We are so proud of these mini musicians.❤️🎹

We hope all of our amazing moms had a very special Mother's Day weekend! We love you and know that the millions of ways you show up for your children are making this world such a better place. Let's hear it for the mamas! 🫶🏼💪🏾💜

We are so proud of all our amazing students who performed on our spring recitals this past weekend! It is clear that everyone put in a lot of hard work, and it paid off! Thank you to all the families and friends who came to support them, and who help make up our musical community, we are so grateful for you. ❤️🎵

We are so excited for our spring recitals this Sunday! We know our students have been working hard and we can't wait to hear them perform. Please feel free to invite any friends or family who you would like to share your music with! 🎵🎹🎻🎤

Our recitals will be held at 2:15pm and 4:00pm on Sunday May 4th at Second Unitarian Church (656 W Barry Ave, Chicago, IL 60657.) Feel free to email us a [email protected] with any questions.

We'd like to introduce you to one of our amazing guitar and piano teachers, Cole Brandt! 🎸🎹

Cole Brandt, a Chicago-based musician and producer, commands a global following of 100,000+ on TikTok and Instagram. Preparing for tours in Europe and Mexico this year, Cole's magnetic presence extends beyond borders. Inspired by his travels, his latest album, shaped by Barcelona , Spain, is a testament to his diverse musical narrative. With 8 albums released and numerous Spotify collaborations, Cole's fusion of jazz guitar and Spanish literature studies at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana lends depth and richness to his cross-cultural compositions, resonating profoundly with audiences worldwide.

Book a lesson with Cole at https://www.ensembleschools.com/bucktown-music/lessons/.

We have been having a blast pretending that our scarves are birds flying all around the classroom this week! Scarves are the perfect prop for exploring different musical concepts like fast and slow, smooth and bumpy or high and low, like our pretend birds! When we heard music that had high sounds we flew our birds up above our heads, and as the music changed to low sounds, we hopped our birds down low on the ground to find worms. This multi-sensory play is the BEST way to help kiddos internalize new information. 🐦‍⬛🦉🦜🎵

Ready for a music class that lights up every part of your child's brain? Join us for a class at https://www.ensembleschools.com/bucktown-music/register-kindermusik/.

Musicians need to warm up just like athletes do! And warming up is just as important for the muscles you use to play your instrument as it is for getting your mind focused. In your warmups you’ll want to focus on improving your hand/mouth/body position while you play or sing and warming up the muscles needed slowly and methodically. You will also want to use technical exercises to help you increase your agility and precision. Our teachers help each of their students create their own unique warm up routine that will help them hone their technique and get them ready to dive into the music they love most.🎵

Book your first music lesson with us today at https://www.ensembleschools.com/bucktown-music/lessons/.

Kindermusik class is the perfect place for children to meet others their own age and practice their social skills! We like to say that music class is about so much more than learning music- it's about learning to be a person! We work and move together in group dances, we practice turn taking with different instruments, we raise our voices together in song, and play side by side. This process isn't always perfectly smooth- sometimes little friends need support as they navigate conflicts. We as teachers and caregivers step in and model for them how to be kind and treat others well while also validating children's feelings. What a joy it is to see tiny friendships emerge in our little corner of the world.💜🎵

Join our little corner here: https://www.ensembleschools.com/bucktown-music/register-kindermusik/