A different approach

Learning Music Theory is a fantastic activity for child’s development. Music theory links creativity, sensitivity, language, mathematics and enhances a child’s focus and attention.

At LVBA, we don’t bother children with boring music theory like the old school.
Based on a more cognitive approach that follows the child’s natural development, LVBA’s method relies on 3 steps:

1- EXPERIENCE. The very first stage is for the child, especially the youngest ones (4-7) to ‘experience’ music, experience the rhythms, the pitch, the harmonies but without any pressure of learning theory by heart. We just make them experience music with their senses.

2- UNDERSTAND. The second step, more in tune with Juniors development (8-11) is to help them understand what they’ve been experiencing. There’s a little bit of theory, but the main focus is to explain to them HOW music, pitch, rhythms and harmonies work.

3- KNOW. It is only after they’ve experience music and after they’ve understood the mechanisms behind music that we properly introduce ‘KNOWLEDGE’. A child learns better if they have first experienced, then understood. Knowledge should always be the very last step if we want them to never forget what they’re learning.