Musik at Home

Musik at Home Musik at Home is dedicated to helping you actively engage your child in musical play! Music and movement are essential for a child's holistic development.

We offer classes for early childhood music for you to complete at home with your child on your own schedule. We get you started with ideas to fill your little one's life with musical play! Our online classes keep the music flowing to help your child's development to soar. You may join our Musik at Home facebook group of likeminded parents who share your desire for more music in the daily routine.

Musical play is the foundation of a child's growing music aptitude and overall development. Join us today!

08/27/2026

One of the most important tonal patterns a child can learn is So–Do: a descending perfect fifth.

Why? Because Do is home. When children repeatedly hear and sing So resolving down to Do, they begin to develop a strong sense of tonality and where the music wants to come to rest.

Before children can make sense of music theoretically, they need a rich tonal vocabulary they can hear, sing, recognize, and audiate.

That’s why I spend so much time singing tonal patterns with young children. We’re not simply teaching them to imitate sounds. We’re helping them build the musical vocabulary they’ll eventually use to understand, improvise, perform, and create music.

So–Do is a foundational tonal pattern because it establishes the relationship between the dominant and tonic, helping children hear and feel where “home” is within a tonality. 🎶

Many thanks to Heather Shouldice for introducing me to this song! It perfectly models the descending 5th before asking the student to respond with the echo. 🙌🏻

Comment “SONGS” to get access to my top 5 songs to sing with your child to help build their tonal vocabulary!

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Learning music is valuable. But learning to think music changes everything.When children learn to hear, understand, anti...
08/26/2026

Learning music is valuable. But learning to think music changes everything.

When children learn to hear, understand, anticipate, and create music in their minds, music becomes something they truly know from the inside out. That’s the power of audiation. 🎶

08/25/2026

This is why we make music together. ❤️🎶

A beautiful summer day, cousins together at the Lincoln Memorial, and somehow… harmony just happens.

All of these girls have grown up with Musik at Home, surrounded by singing, tonal and rhythm patterns, movement, listening, and making music together.

And this is one of my favorite things to witness: when years of musical experiences become something children can carry with them wherever they go.

No lesson happening. No performance planned. Just cousins who hear the harmony, find their parts, and make music together because it has become a natural part of who they are.

These are the moments I love so much. ❤️

Music isn’t only something we learn. It’s something we get to share with the people we love.

Try it with a loved one!! ❤️🫶🏻🎶 Even little ones can learn to sing harmony!

Thanks for teaching us this little warm up, Becky Schafer!

08/23/2026

There’s nothing quite like watching your child find out that years of hard work have opened the door to something extraordinary. 🥹✨

Kiara competed in an international voice competition and received 2nd Place in Broadway/Musical Theatre and 1st Place in Opera Aria! 🎶🏆

These awards mean she’ll be performing two vocal pieces on stage at Carnegie Hall this December!

I love this little glimpse of the moment she found out. The surprise, the joy, and the realization that she gets to step onto that stage again, this time as both a musical theatre and classical vocalist.

Being both her mom and her primary voice teacher makes this moment especially meaningful to me. It was so much fun for all of us to get the news while on vacation!!

While I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside her through so much of her musical journey! I am also incredibly grateful for the other teachers, coaches, performances, and musical experiences that have encouraged her and helped shape the musician she is becoming.

Carnegie Hall, here she comes! ✨🎭🎼

She’s ready for this because she started learning the language of music early!

Starting music education in the early years prepares children to excel if that’s the direction they want to go.

It’s such a joy to be able to share music with so many families through my classes at Musik at Home. If you have a little one, I hope you’ll jump in and get started.

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Have you ever thought about how we actually learn music? 🎶Think about the way we learn language. We don’t begin with wor...
08/23/2026

Have you ever thought about how we actually learn music? 🎶

Think about the way we learn language. We don’t begin with words on a page. We spend years listening, absorbing, imitating, experimenting, and eventually learning to think in the language.

Music learning works much the same way.

Audiation is the ability to hear and understand music in the mind, even when no physical sound is present. When children develop audiation, they aren’t simply learning to reproduce notes on a page. They are learning to think musically.

And when a child can think in music, the notes on a page begin to have meaning. ❤️

This is at the heart of how we teach at Musik at Home: sound before symbol, understanding before notation.

I can’t wait to tell you more! 👏🏻❤️🎶

07/02/2026

The U.S. just advanced in the World Cup, and after the match the team celebrated by singing “Country Roads.”

Why?

Because music is something you carry with you for life.

These three girls are singing that same song today. Years ago, they were little ones featured in Musik at Home classes. Their families made music a priority, and it changed the way they experience it forever.

They didn’t just learn songs. They learned to think in music. They developed audiation—the ability to hear and understand music in their minds before they sing or play it. They also studied piano through Musik at Home, building the skills to make music independently.

Now they don’t need sheet music or someone telling them what to sing. They can gather around a piano (in a car, on a bed in the middle of a remodel, or anywhere), find their parts, create beautiful harmonies, and enjoy making music together anytime they want.

That’s the goal.

Not raising children who can only perform at lessons or recitals, but raising people who speak the language of music for the rest of their lives.

If you’d love to begin making music with your child and give them these lifelong skills, comment LEARN below and I’ll send you everything you need to get started. ❤️🎶

If you’re a teacher, a parent or adult wanting to learn music, comment LEARN! I have something for everyone. ❤️🤍💙

06/13/2026

Parents & Teachers, This little clip captures more than the final moments of Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat Major. 🎶✨

What you’re hearing is the result of years of growing musicianship, and a childhood spent listening, thinking, and making sense of music… because learning the language of music is most intuitive in early childhood and it enriches all of life.

Before she could play it, she could hear it.

That’s the power of audiation, the ability to hear and understand music in your mind before it ever reaches your fingers. It’s what allows music to become more than notes on a page. It becomes a language, a conversation, a story.

And there is something deeply satisfying about sharing with the world the musical conversation already happening inside your mind.

I’m proud of the hard work, perseverance, and artistry that brought these final notes to life. ❤️🎹 I love being her teacher, but I love being her mama even more.

Parents, Comment START to begin making music with your little one at home. Audiation skills are intuitive to children when they are given the chance to grow their understanding of music playfully, joyfully, and with a grown up who loves them!

Teachers; comment START to learn how I take students down the path of music literacy with audiation.

06/13/2026

Music is magical. ✨

It awakens the deepest, most expressive places of the human heart. 

For children to make music meaningfully, they need to learn to think in the language of music. This is called audiation!

It enlivens the entire body. It engages the mind. 

Children learn music the way they learn language. Rhythm and Tonal patterns form the word and sentences of music.

Music vocabulary is made up of melody patterns, rhythm patterns and harmonic progressions. 

Just as thoughts are made up of words and phrases that come together to express an idea, so musical thoughts are made up of smaller parts or patterns in music that come together to express a complete musical idea. 

When several musical ideas are put together in finished form, it’s called a song. 

In order to help children understand songs, we must help them understand the smaller patterns of music that make up the whole. 

It’s a simple method. We sing the whole song, then pull out the smaller patterns, then put them all back together again. 

It’s quite like building a puzzle and it’s so much fun for kids!

In this sweet moment with the students Wondergarten , I had just finished singing the song “Mr. Morrison Mole” from our “Songs of October” album by Nathaniel Santa Cruz .

I took some of the essential tonal patterns from the song and had the students echo me! I added a splash of imaginative play and the students were totally immersed in the language of music! First, we sang the patterns on a neutral syllable. Then we sang them with solfége to add language to the sounds. Magic!!!

This is what I do in every Musik at Home class in the Musik at Home Membership. 🫶🏻🎶❤️ I hope you’ll give the gift of audiartion to your child! It is life changing!

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