Little Mozart Music Program

As the most comprehensive Online Music Platform for both children and adults, the Little Mozart Music Program brings top-tier music lessons to your home. Based on over 30 years of experience teaching across three different continents in various conservatories and colleges, the LMMP was designed by the most respected music teachers in the world. However, in these times when our home becomes our classroom, we need to deliver top-tier music training from a distance. That’s why the LMMP is designed to bring top-quality music education to your home while still remaining affordable for most families.

When it comes to learning a new musical instrument, the quality of the lessons taken from the very beginning makes a massive impact on the potential success of the student. Understanding how crucial those first few lessons can really be, I became inspired to develop an online program that delivers quality directly to your home. I strive to make our online program just as effective as in-person lessons from a top-tier instructor.

Given our current education system, we wonder what the real purpose of education is. Is it really just for introducing information to our children or should there be something deeper that our kids can grasp from education? We believe that education is much more than just introducing new information to your brain; education should make you an overall better person by developing a framework of values.

Developing discipline, perseverance, resilience, and love for beauty from an early age builds the vision and foundation through which you will see the world as you grow. It serves as a basis that influences all experiences. For example, if you develop a taste and a habit of eating healthy food from an early age, odds are you’ll continue those healthy habits throughout your life. In that same way, by seeing and experiencing beauty at a young age, you’ll live a lifestyle of seeking beauty in everything you do in life leading to far more overall life satisfaction. At a young age, we can also understand the importance of learning by making mistakes and standing back up after we fail to build the resilience and strength required to lead a successful life. By nurturing and developing these values from an early age, you set yourself up to become a better, stronger person who can handle anything life throws at you.

When learning a musical instrument, you must repeatedly practice the same movement until they are mastered allowing the student to challenge themself as they see fit. The repetition creates new neuropaths in your brain and body, but the challenge of the movements must be progressive and constant in order for the neuropaths to fully form and continue developing. This is what I call “learning in layers”.

When learning a musical instrument you start with one layer of information, then you reinforce it through repetition until it becomes second nature to the student. At that moment you start introducing a second layer, then a third, and so on. Playing an instrument can be compared to an onion. You only see the onion as a whole, but a person playing an instrument understands that the music produced required mastering many movements and information (or layers), that together form a single goal.

For comparison, someone who can multiply or divide numbers in a seemingly natural way slowly developed that skill set over time. They were not naturally able to multiply or divide that way since they first learned the concepts, instead, it came from extensive training, learning, and challenging themselves. These same concepts also apply to your brain. Without training and challenging it on a regular basis, its processes never improve.

With that said, every challenge has to be met progressively over time. If you have more than one kid or like in my case, have been teaching for over 30 years, you realize that kids learn in significantly different ways. Not only do they process information at different speeds, but they also go develop those processes differently with those processing speeds varying as they grow. For example, I personally see some kids start learning at a slower speed then once they understand the core concepts, they begin picking up on new information much faster. It is like they start seeing things on a different plane. However, this also happens in the other direction. Some kids pick up the basics very quickly when they are interested in something new then their learning begins to slow down for a period of time until it picks back up again. However, neither of these scenarios is right or wrong, it just depends on how the child processes new information at that period of their life. But, in both scenarios, a challenge should always be present regardless of how fast or slow the child is currently learning new information.

Even though you may not be aware of these movements, they are extremely important in order for a child to learn how to walk. They prepare the child and set the right conditions so that the next movement that brings the child closer to walking comes in a natural way. When you learn a musical instrument, you want to play that instrument in a natural way that feels as though it’s second nature with minimal resistance from your body and mind. You want it to become as natural as walking, eating, or speaking. But, to arrive at that point, you must move towards it step-by-step just like you did when learning to walk.

Repetition is very important but only if the correct movements are repeated. The only movements that you want to become second nature are the right ones. Repeating the wrong movements will cause those incorrect movements to become second nature and fixing those incorrect movements once they become second nature is extremely difficult.

Logically, depending on the age and maturity of your child, the timing of his/her development will be different. For learning anything new, it is very important that we always keep this in mind. Just like with walking, the first steps are the ones that take the longest. Teaching a child to learn the proper position of the violin and bow may seem easy, but putting these movements together correctly and actually playing the violin with the correct position takes time for everyone