Class Descriptions

Music Makers (4-5 year old)

45 min classes

Music Makers I is a first year class for 4-5 year olds in preparation for keyboard playing!

There are two years of potential curriculum for your child to encounter! Music Makers at Home in the World and Music Makers Around the World. This class includes singing, creative and structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening, as well as a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression. The language of music begins to expand from aural learning to visual pattern recognition.

Music Makers I (Ages 4 & 5)

email beth@bethsmusicwell to be placed on a wait list
Sept-Dec 2026 Full
Jan-May 2027 Full
Summer 2027 waitlist is forming

Music Makers II (5 & 6 years old)

45 min classes

Music Makers II is a class for 5-6 year olds in preparation for keyboard playing!

Music Makers Around the World. This class includes singing, creative and structured movement, playing instruments and ensemble work, ear training and guided listening, as well as a developmentally sound approach to music literacy that builds symbolic thinking, concentration, memory, and self-expression. All of this is then taken to the piano keyboard for a first introduction to piano lessons.

email Beth@bethsmusicwell.com to be placed on a wait list.
Sept - Dec 2026 FULL
Jan - May 2027 FULL
Summer 2027 Waitlist is forming

Piano Level 1 (Red to Green Books) (Ages 6 +)

The Musikgarten Group Piano curriculum is the final step on the pathway from early childhood music to music literacy. This program is designed to teach the children to begin to play the songs they've been hearing, singing, and dancing to throughout the years of early childhood.

During Piano I year, the children will be introduced to the keyboard. Through the year, the children will become comfortable with D, C and G major 5 finger positions as well as d, c and e minor. They will be introduced to the I and V7 (also I and v7) chords to accompany their songs. Transposing their repertoire to all known positions is encouraged as each new position is introduced.

This class follows a very sequential approach to building piano skills,understanding musical notation and setting up practice habits as set forth in the book, Music Makers: At the Keyboard, Book One (Red) and Book Two (Green).

Piano Level 1 Groups:

For Piano I children will receive Book One, download music and notation games plus a Parent Handbook. Class size limited and will close when limit is reached. Further names will be placed on a waiting list. As children progress through, Book 2 will be offered along with downloadable music and notation games.

Sept 2026 - May 2027 - All Level 1 groups are FULL

Summer 2027 wait list is forming
Wait List - to have your child placed on a wait list for next available class, please email beth at beth@bethsmusicwell.com

Piano Level 2 (Purple to Blue Books) (Graduate of Level 1 )

In Piano Level 2, the children learn new hand positions that move out of the 5-finger position, new keys and notation games, how to write out familiar songs and will have many more opportunities to compose their own music. Improvisation games and skills are developed further. There are more songs to play by ear with more complex parts for the left hand. Technique exercises will eventually lead to more fluid playing.
The student will work with compositions by many famous composers. Pieces written by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak and MacDowell are included, some for drumming or dancing, some to explore dynamics and tempi, and some for harmonic analysis.

Materials include the keyboard book, 2 CDs and notation games.

Pre-requisite Piano Level I.

Piano Level 3 (Orange to Gold Books) (Graduate of Level 2)

Level 3 Includes Books 5 & 6 of the Musikgarten Music Makers at the Keyboard series.

By this time, students have learned to play many songs by ear and in multiple positions on the keyboard. They have played the same pieces that young pianists from all over the world have studied. Now they will encounter more music of Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart and be introduced to Mouret and Bartok and play a piece by Ferdinand Beyer.
We continue to work on improvisation skills and prepare the student to make important decisions regarding improvised solos.

In Book 6, there are many new pieces with new challenges. The child's aural skills combined with a knowledge of melody, harmony, and rhythm, are all called on to build competence in improvising on a 12-Bar Blues Progression. The understanding of music notation will allow your child a chance to compose and write his/her very own blues compostion!

Home materials include books, CDs/downloadable music, and notation games.

Pre-requisite Level 2 (Books 3 & 4).

Piano Private Lessons (Level 3 and above)

30 minutes once a week (in-person or online)

Private piano lessons are 30 minutes of one on one instruction one time a week

Requirements: Completed Book 6 of the Musikgarten keyboarding program

Materials:

determined per individual

Preschool & Childcare Center Classes (Newborns - 5 years )

20-30 minute classes

Preschools & Childcare Centers can arrange for a Music Well instructor to come to your facility! Schedule on a weekly basis for continued comprehensive learning, or schedule less frequently to serve as an enrichment program.

Up to 12 children in one class with classroom teacher participating
30 minute classes
instruments and materials provided by Music Well

4K Music Classes - Music class supports and enhances reading and math literacy sills! Music class supports social emotional learning! Music class allows for creative expression in a beatiful, universal language! Music class is not only singing and playing instruments, but also movement in flow, time and space! Music class prepares the young child for future learning!
Contact Beth to arrange for music class for your 4k program! beth@bethsmusicwell.com