Parent Resources

Parents,

Congratulations on your decision to support your child’s music education! Statistical research shows that active participation in music-making contributes to improved spatial reasoning skills, enhanced math skills, higher SAT scores, and better social skills. Active music-making yields lifelong benefits, and a music education is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give to a child.

Children are automatically drawn to music and excited to start making music. However, kids don’t start making music automatically, and it’s easy for students to become discouraged. Recognizing that music is an integral part of your child’s education, you need to be a source of encouragement and help your child on their path to experiencing the joy of music-making.

Practice is required to develop nearly any skill, and music is certainly no exception. Motivating children to practice can be a challenge for parents and music educators. Historically, music practice has been something children do alone, and it just wasn’t fun. SmartMusic changes all of that. SmartMusic provides accompaniment every time the child practices; it makes practice fun and far more productive.

SmartMusic is a complete interactive practice tool that provides your child with new opportunities to develop musical skills and have fun in the process. The intuitive nature of the product design is easy for your child to understand and makes it easy for parents to see and hear progress. There is no need to guess how your child is progressing or how to encourage your child in their musical journey.

One of the many features found in SmartMusic is the record feature. Simple in concept and use, this is an extraordinarily powerful pedagogical tool. This is because your child hears what they do wrong much more easily with a recording than they do while singing or playing. Recordings provide an accurate, easy-to-perceive presentation of how your child sounds. When your child is taught to evaluate their recordings for self-improvement and encouraged to do so frequently in their practice sessions, they improve on their own. In other words, the SmartMusic record feature teaches children how to teach themselves.

Music educators are reporting that students using SmartMusic at home are practicing longer, having more fun, and developing skills fasters. Please see the feature tour for a more complete description of SmartMusic, or simply order SmartMusic today to put your child on the road to musical success.