Multimedia
Instrumental
Music Curriculum

For Homeschool Music Education

For Free

Why Practicing Musician?

We know it’s a challenge to include instrumental music education in your homeschooled child’s learning plan.

Hiring a private teacher is great but expensive. If you have three kids in lessons, the monthly fees can easily add up to over $500 every month.
Scheduling a lesson is a pain, driving your kids around constantly is stressful, and the price of gas these days increases the cost even further.
With a full week between lessons, it’s easy for children to forget what they have learned and develop bad habits that require even more time and money to correct.

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.

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.

Smarter; not harder.

Faster: the ability to play occurs more quickly by adhering to up-to-date educational research.
Easier: work smarter, not harder, by learning on your own time at your own pace.
Better: the results speak for themselves, as they have for thousands of K-12 students.
Greener: online education means no gas, no traffic, and no wasted time parking!
Thrifty: our free resources and optional paid private lessons are the most affordable methods to learn music effectively.
More FUN: gain without the pain of outdated teaching methodologies.

How it works.

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With our easy account setup process, your child can start learning in minutes—today.

Learn

Access thousands of free video tutorials, sheet music, assignments, and assessments by expert music instructors.

Optional feedback

Our private lessons are a fraction of the cost of traditional private lessons. Watch your child grow!

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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!“

Director of Bands, Billings R-IV School District

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.”

Co-Chair of Model Cornerstone Assessment Development, Director of Assessment, Kansas State University

Reese Burgan

“I highly recommend Practicing Musician for anyone who is looking for passionate and effective musicians and teachers.”

Adjunct Professor, Lone Star College

Dr. Bret Smith

“I can’t think of a project that is more relevant to our current challenges, with as much potential impact.”

Professor, Faculty Legislative Representative, and Assessment Coordinator at Central Washington University

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.”

Band Director, Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle

Caitlin Brock

“Having access to Practicing Musician has been one of the best things for my program.”

Band Director and VAPA Department Head, Lynwood Unified School District

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!”

Elementary General Music Teacher, Burlington-Edison School District.

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!”

Music Teacher, Bishop Kearney High School in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rochester, New York

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!!”

"Jr/Sr High Music Director Oroville, WA"