Multimedia
Instrumental
Music Curriculum

For Homeschoolers. For Free. Forever.

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 will help.

    Practicing Musician provides self-paced online multimedia curriculum for 15 instruments that are free. Forever.
    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 micro tutoring is a fraction of the cost of traditional 30 or 60-minute private lessons.
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    Want to know more?

    Sign up for free orientation with our founder and curriculum designer, Jake Douglass.

    Give your child the lifelong gift of music.

    Create a free parent account with Practicing Musician today
    to start your child learning music immediately.

    You don’t have to sacrifice quality for affordability when it comes to your child’s 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 micro tutoring model are the most affordable methods to learn music effectively.

    • More FUN: gain without the pain of outdated teaching methodologies.

    How it works.

    Sign up

    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 micro tutoring is a fraction of the cost of traditional private lessons. Watch your child grow!

    Get started today!

    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

    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

    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 Testimonial

    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 Testimonial

    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 Testimonial

    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

    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"