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Take a step-by-step musical journey with video courses, lesson plans, activities & sheet music

Level 1A Courses

Hello C

Year 1, Chapter 1
Level 1A

Welcome to Prodigies! In this first course, we’ll meet Mr. Rob, each of our bells and do a lot of easy call and response songs to get your kids ready for music lessons with Prodigies.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

High & Low

Year 1, Chapter 2
Level 1A

In Chapter 2, we’ll focus on the differences between high and low sounds (C/1 vs c/8) while also practicing the concept of LEFT and RIGHT. We’ll review our C Chord & our C Scale as well.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

C & G, BFFs

Year 1, Chapter 3
Level 1A

In Chapter 3, we’ll focus on the important 1-5 relationship between Do & Sol, while also learning about the G Major Chord.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Do Re Mi: Year 1, Chapter 4 (8 Weeks)

Do Re Mi

Year 1, Chapter 4
Level 1A

In Chapter 4, we focus on the notes Do Re Mi while playing famous songs like Mary Had a Little Lamb, Sally the Camel & more.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Level 1B Courses

Mi Sol La

Year 2, Chapter 5
Level 1B

In Chapter 5, we’ll focus solely on the notes Mi Sol & La. This special combination of notes is the classic sound of “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo” which is a really important & powerful melody in early pitch education!

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Fa La La

Year 2, Chapter 6
Level 1B

In Chapter 6, we focus on Fa Sol & La while playing our 3 note Melodies (from Chapter 4) in the key of F Major! We’ll also play some famous Holiday songs like Ode to Joy, Jingle Bells and Auld Lang Syne and prepare “Ode to Joy” for a recital!

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Chords

Year 2, Chapter 7
Level 1A

In Chapter 7, we focus on the 3 Major Chords, C (I) F (IV) and G (V) Major! We’ll play the root notes, the blues and work on listening to and identifying the chords by ear! Plus, we’ll revisit our 3 note songs from Chapter 4 and 6, but this time in G Major.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Born to Hand-Sign

Year 2, Chapter 8
Level 1B

In Chapter 8, we’ll review all of our hand-signs, practice identifying melodies based on Solfege, and play more difficult songs using all 8 notes of the C Major Scale.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Level 2 Courses

Hello Bells

Year 3, Chapter 1
Level 2A

In Year 3, we move on from the fun & simpler lessons from Preschool Prodigies and move to more difficult theory concepts & sheet music with Primary Prodigies.

This course takes you through Chapter 1 of Primary Prodigies in combination with select lessons from Melodies, Rhythms & Performance Prodigies.

Lesson plans are coming soon.

Suggested Materials: C Major Instrument
(Bells, Piano, Mallet, Prodigies Bells App, etc)

Ukulele Prodigies

Discover Hawaii’s favorite string instrument with a series of step-by-step lessons for beginners

Suggested Materials: Soprano, Concert or Tenor Ukulele.