Musical Variety Benefits for Little Singers

Musical Parenting Tip:  Listen to a variety of music with your toddler

Introducing children to a wide variety of musical genres gives them a greater understanding of what is possible through music.  Introducing a variety of musical styles and musical modes/patterns invites the brain to analyze the pattern.

Did you know the brain is pattern seeking device?

Login to your Kindermusik @ Home account, and read the e-book ‘Gingerbread Boy.’  Enjoy the different ways each animal speaks, as they ask the Gingerbread Boy to go back to his home.

Bedtime?  Cue up ‘Duermete, mi Niño,’ and rock your child to sleep 🙂

Listen to, and discover all of the musical variety in the “Time for Lunch!” CD.

Be sure to listen to Rise, Sugar, Rise (an American folksong), Sweet Potatoes (Jazz), Vegetable Soup (Rock-n-Roll for kids), and more.

Want to Learn More? On our blog:  Read What Jazz Teaches Us About Language Development!

Also, find Three Ways to Use Music to Take Children Around the World!

Kindermusik 7-Year Continuum:  Musical variety for babies expands a child’s ‘ear vocabulary.’  Using recordings and live instruments help baby ‘fine tune’ his ear to recognize and imitate sounds that make up words & language. When a child listens to different styles of music, her mind perceives the sound in multi-dimensional ways.  The sounds is loud or soft, fast or slow, moves up and down, or left to right.

Kindermusik toddler classes use spatial movement, along with musical variety, to help build skills for learning how to get around things, jump, run, and move in zig-zag pathways.

Musical variety in Kindermusik preschool classes helps set the scene in an imaginary world, where a child can start with his own experience, and then move to imaginary places with princesses and superheroes, then back to reality, again.  This ability to go back & forth from reality to imagination comes from temporal reasoning, a skill used in music writing, storytelling, and problem solving.

Musical variety for big kids (like Kindermusik Young Child students), supports a child’s awareness and understanding of different moods and emotions.  As we learn to play glockenspiels, recorders, and dulcimers, that variety of music helps to establish a vocabulary for children to pull from, as they interpret notes on a page in their own way.