Drumming For Kids

Sam Zucchini

Making the Basics Fun and Easy

Every kid wants to be a drummer, and this is the coolest way ever to get started! Sam Zucchini makes it fun and easy as he teaches how to keep time, count beats, understand rhythm and generally get tuned in to playing in an ensemble. The other Zucchini Brothers (popular children's entertainers, musicians and all-around colorful personalities) join in ... Read More

Electric Guitar for Kids - DVD 2

Pete Kennedy, Marcy Marxer

Really Playing!

Turn it on, tune it up and start playing! Now that all the basics have been covered, it's time for kids to move on to grooves and techniques that really rock. Pete Kennedy and Marcy Marxer bring the fun up several notches as they guide young guitarists through important new levels of skills and musical development, including barre chords ... Read More

Electric Guitar for Kids - Two video Set

Marcy Marxer, Pete Kennedy
Video One: Getting Started Here's the coolest way ever to learn to play an electric guitar! These fun, easy to use play-along lessons will teach budding players the music fundamentals, from holding and tuning the guitar to playing rhythm grooves, forming chords and even making up their own rock solos. There's plenty of opportunity to jam right along ... Read More

Electric Guitar for Kids - Video 1

Pete Kennedy, Marcy Marxer

Getting Started!

Here's the coolest way ever to learn to play an electric guitar! Two-time GRAMMY® winner Marcy Marxer teams up with top studio musician Pete Kennedy to inspire kids and get them off to a great start. These fun, easy to use play-along lessons will teach budding players the music fundamentals, from holding and tuning the guitar to playing rhythm grooves ... Read More

Fiddle For Kids - DVD 2

Luke Bulla, Jenny Anne Bulla
Starting out with a quick review, Luke and Jenny Anne then get their young student into some real fiddle playing!  Focusing on building repertoire, they teach three well-known fiddle tunes, breaking them down into small sections that are easy to grasp. With some practice, the young fiddler will soon perform Old Joe Clark, Tennessee Waltz and Devil's Dream for ... Read More

Fiddle For Kids - Lesson One

Luke Bulla, Jenny Anne Bulla
With the help of their seven year old brother Jed, Luke and Jenny Anne demonstrate the basics of tuning up; bowing technique; proper hand position and posture; finding the right size fiddle; and all else needed to get off to a great start. By the end of this lesson, the beginning fiddler will use these new skills to play the ... Read More

Kids' Guitar - DVD 1

Marcy Marxer

Ten Easy Lessons

Children (and their parents and teachers) will be delighted with this lively, fun-filled, easy-to-follow guitar course, our first devoted entirely to them!   With clarity and lots of good humor, noted children's performer Marcy Marxer teaches basic chords and strums and gets your kids singing these songs with the guitar: Down By The Riverside, Skip To My Lou, Buffalo ... Read More

Kids' Guitar - Lesson 2

Marcy Marxer

More Easy Lessons

If your child is ready to learn more chords, strums and songs, Marcy's second series of guitar lessons moves to a whole new level. These clear, upbeat lessons cover simple fingerpicking arpeggios, the use of the capo and basic chord theory. Your child will gain the tools and musical knowledge to learn hundreds of folk, country, spiritual, school and ... Read More

Kids' Guitar - Two-Lesson Set

Marcy Marxer
These two lessons are a great way to get your child into the joys of music. The whole family will be playing together in no time! Lesson One: Play In Ten Easy Lessons! Children (and their parents and teachers) will be delighted with this lively, fun-filled, easy-to-follow guitar course, our first devoted entirely to them! With clarity and lots of ... Read More

Making and Playing Homemade Instruments

Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer
Did you know that you can make a banjo out of a bleach bottle? A conga drum from an oatmeal box? Maracas from frozen orange juice cans? Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer invite kids, parents and teachers to help them make and play these and other homemade instruments. You'll also learn to make--and really play--a Yardstick Mouthbow, Bottle Cap ... Read More

SmartStart Guitar

Jessica Baron
Here's a new approach to guitar lessons for kids that is fun and easy! The guitar is tuned to a special open chord ("SmartStart Tuning"), so your child can immediately make a pleasing, musical sound simply by strumming across the strings. By learning a few simple chord positions ("Easy D," "Easy C" etc.) combined with strums and rhythms a ... Read More

Smart Start Guitar Book/CD

Jessica Baron

A fun, easy approach to beginning guitar for kids

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