Explorers
A one-on-one, story-driven music-literacy program. Before formal instrument study, students learn to read, hear, and feel music — so day one of real training starts miles ahead.
- Ages
- 4 – 6
- Lessons
- One-on-one · 30 min
- Enrollment
- Monthly · 42 / yr
Before the first instrument, there's the music itself.
Most kids start music by picking up an instrument and learning to push the right keys. Explorers does the opposite. In one-on-one lessons built around a playful, story-driven curriculum full of animal characters, your child first learns to read, hear, and feel music itself — the foundation everything else is built on.
YAMP exists to train, support, and advocate for the next generation of musicians. Explorers is where the youngest of them begin: not with pressure, but with play that quietly turns into real literacy.
Three kinds of learning, every time.
Table time
At the table, your child works through colorful, leveled books — reading notes, marking rhythms, and naming the symbols that make up written music.
Floor time
On the music-staff rug, learning gets physical. Kids step out melodies, clap rhythms, and play games that turn note-reading into something they do with their whole body.
Instrument time
Each level introduces a new instrument to touch, take apart, and listen to. There's no technique to master yet — it's pure exploration, building the curiosity that makes real lessons stick.
What “just playing around” adds up to.
Explorers runs ten levels — about sixty lessons. By the time your child graduates, the play has become a real foundation:
- 3 octaves
- of notes read fluently on the grand staff
- ♩ → ♬
- rhythms from quarter through sixteenth notes, clapped and counted
- 1 song
- performed at the piano at their graduation lesson
That's what day one of formal instrument training looks like for an Explorers graduate — already miles ahead.
Come see what the journey looks like.
The best way to know if Explorers is right for your child is to watch them in it. Request info and we'll walk you through curriculum, schedule, and the path that comes next.