Why Practicing Musician?
We know it’s a challenge to include instrumental music education in your homeschooled child’s learning plan.
How Practicing Musician Supports Homeschool Education
Practicing Musician offers a self-paced, online music curriculum designed specifically with homeschool families in mind. Whether you’re following a structured program or unschooling, your student can learn at their own pace using high-quality video lessons for 15 different instruments — completely free.
Concert band: alto saxophone | clarinet | euphonium | flute | french horn | oboe | percussion | tenor saxophone | trombone | trumpet | tuba
Orchestral strings: cello | upright bass | viola | violin
Curriculum
Our curriculum blends up-to-date education research best practices with technology, time-tested instrumental pedagogy, and the National Core Arts Standards.
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Resources
We offer free and paid parent training options to help you facilitate your children’s learning with our sequenced instructional videos, sheet music, assignments, and assessments.
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Optional Feedback
Does your child need one-on-one help? Guidance and feedback from our expert teachers via optional private lessons is a fraction of the cost of traditional 30 or 60-minute private lessons.
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You don’t have to sacrifice quality for affordability when it comes to your child’s homeschool music education.
Practicing Musician provides a pathway to learning music for your child.
How it works
Homeschool Music Curriculum
Homeschool Music Education — Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before getting started
No. Free and paid parent training resources are included to help non-musician parents facilitate their child’s learning.
It’s free and self-paced online, eliminating $500+/month in lesson fees and commuting. Optional one-on-one Private lesson is available at a fraction of traditional costs.
Yes. It is aligned with the National Core Arts Standards and incorporates up-to-date education research and time-tested instrumental pedagogy.
15 instruments: trumpet, violin, flute, clarinet, cello, viola, upright bass, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, euphonium, french horn, oboe, percussion, trombone, and tuba.
Yes. All 15 instrument video lessons, sheet music, and assessments are completely free. Optional paid private lessons are available at a fraction of traditional lesson costs.
Shannon Waldo
“My students were bummed when I told them we wouldn’t use Practicing Musician on Tuesday but celebrated when they learned we’d be at it again on Thursday!“
Dr. Frederick Burrack
“We’ve been waiting for a technological adaptation of the Model Cornerstone Assessments since the re-envisioning of the National Core Arts Standards in 2014. Practicing Musician has provided a viable and useful solution.”
Reese Burgan
“I highly recommend Practicing Musician for anyone who is looking for passionate and effective musicians and teachers.”
Dr. Bret Smith
“I can’t think of a project that is more relevant to our current challenges, with as much potential impact.”
Catherine Stadulis
“My students are always asking, “when can we use Practicing Musician again?!” because they just have such a great time with the program.”
Caitlin Brock
“Having access to Practicing Musician has been one of the best things for my program.”
Mary Ellen Hodges
“Thanks to Practicing Musician, my students are leaps and bounds ahead of where they normally are at this time in the year!”
Stanislaw Hoholuk
“I highly recommend Practicing Musician. It is professional, user-friendly, accessible, and versatile. I was also very impressed by the IT support to resolve questions and issues. And it’s free – you can’t ask for a better price!”
Valerie Coolidge
“I love Practicing Musician’s method. It’s saving me so much time. Today I used it to assign what will be a semester’s worth of work for my HS students, and it only took a half hour. Oh, thank you!!”
