Homeschool Music Curriculum by Grade Level
Find the Right Starting Level for Your Child
Music Duo Academy provides a sequential K–6 homeschool music curriculum with levels designed around your child’s grade, musical experience, and prior knowledge. Students can begin at the level that fits them best and continue building skills step by step.
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Music Duo Academy Course Levels
Music Duo Academy is organized into progressive levels so children can begin where they are and continue building musical skills over time. Students progress from Apprentice 1 through Maestro 2, while Pre-Apprentice 2 and Pre-Maestro 1 provide alternate starting points based on age and prior music experience.
Kindergarteners start here.
For those children who have completed Apprentice 1.
First or second-graders new to Music Duo start here.
Second-graders who are proficient with so mi and la hand signs or third-graders new to Music Duo start here.
Third graders and older who are proficient with do re mi so and la or have taken Apprentice 3 start here.
Fourth and fifth graders who are new to solfege start here.
4th through 6th graders who have completed Maestro 1 or have equivalent experience.
Apprentice 1: Kindergarten Music Curriculum
Apprentice 1 is designed for kindergarten students and older children who benefit from a gentle introduction to music. Students develop healthy singing habits while exploring steady beat, rhythm, high and low sounds, fast and slow, loud and soft, movement, body percussion, mallet technique, musical patterns, and unpitched percussion instruments.
Pre-Apprentice 2: 1st–2nd Grade Music Curriculum
Pre-Apprentice 2 is designed for students in 1st or 2nd grade who are new to solfege and hand signs. Students develop healthy singing habits while learning foundational concepts such as so, mi, and la; beat and rhythm; quarter and eighth notes; quarter rests; strong and weak beats; simple meter; movement; mallet technique; musical patterns; body percussion; and instrument families.
Apprentice 2: Building Music Reading and Rhythm Skills
Apprentice 2 builds on the skills introduced in Apprentice 1. Students continue developing healthy singing habits while expanding their understanding of solfege, beat and rhythm, quarter and eighth notes, quarter rests, meter, musical patterns, movement, mallet technique, body percussion, and instrument families. They also begin reading music on both three-line and five-line staffs.
Apprentice 3: 2nd–3rd Grade Music Curriculum
Apprentice 3 is designed for students in 2nd or 3rd grade who already have experience with so, mi, and la solfege and hand signs. Students review earlier concepts and begin working with do and re, pentatonic music, melodic composition, half notes and rests, sixteenth notes, 6/8 meter, rhythmic and melodic ostinatos, movement, improvisation, mallet technique, body percussion, and instrument families.
Pre-Maestro 1: 4th–5th Grade Beginner Music Curriculum
Pre-Maestro 1 is designed for older beginners in 4th or 5th grade who have had little previous experience with singing, solfege, or music reading. The first lessons build the rhythm, solfege, and singing skills students need before they transition into Maestro 1, helping them catch up without starting at a younger level.
Maestro 1: 3rd Grade and Up Music Curriculum
Maestro 1 is designed for students in 3rd grade and above who already have experience with do, re, mi, so, and la solfege and hand signs. Students review earlier concepts and expand their skills with low la and low so, tonal centers, melodic composition, syncopation, canon, 6/8 meter, sectional form, movement, improvisation, mallet technique, dynamics, tempo, body percussion, and instrument families.
Maestro 2: 4th–6th Grade Music Curriculum
Maestro 2 is designed for students in 4th through 6th grade who have completed Maestro 1 or have equivalent music experience. Students continue building music reading, theory, singing, rhythm, and creative skills while working with more advanced musical concepts.
- Melody: high do, note names on the treble clef staff, ledger lines, and pentatonic scales
- Rhythm: sixteenth-note combinations, whole notes, tied sixteenth notes, conducting in 2 and 4, and common time signatures
- Harmony: rounds, partner songs, and basic chord roots
- Form: AB and ABA forms, rondo, introductions, and codas
- Expression and Creativity: crescendo, diminuendo, improvisation, and composition
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Music Duo videos are engaging, enriching and musically stimulating journey that both of my daughters can’t seem to get enough of. Ms. Davis is incredibly knowledgeable and her passion about music and teaching children shines through each and every video. My girls have grown quite attached to seeing Ms. Davis in the videos. Her warm, friendly and enthusiastic demeanor makes it feel as though she’s speaking directly to your children and no one else. (I swear she’s magic!)
I highly recommend Music Duo!
Monique F.
Parent
I just wanted to share with you how AWESOME you are!! Due to COVID-19, my 2nd grade daughter is being homeschooled (in New Jersey) by yours truly LOL We stumbled upon your YouTube channel and WOW! THANK YOU for giving us another resource to expand her learning! You are so fun to listen to/watch/sing with/learn from, you have an amazing voice, and you have already shared such lovely lessons! We cannot thank you enough for providing this content.
Alyssa Z.
Parent
Ms. Davis, I am homeschooling my son in Japan and we LOVE you and your happy upbeat ways with song bouquets and great music lessons with movement! Thank you for sharing your awesome talent. Now he wants to play the xylophone - your Halloween classes were perfect.
Jule P.
Parent
Ms. Davis' passion for teaching music comes through each video. I mean, you can see how she really puts in every aspect of music in her videos. She’s showing the hand signs, the notes, and she shows the kids where they belong. We do lessons to make sure that they understand how the notes are supposed to be on the staff. I really enjoyed how THEY enjoyed music. I had never seen it like that before.
Glenda R.
Substitute Teacher
We looked for a program like this for over a year. My son loves having class with Ms. Davis and he has learned so much!
Mandy J.
Parent
As a music teacher of 23 years, MusicDuo is a comprehensive end to end music education program. Whether you have child who needs enrichment programs to their existing music education or as a standalone music education curriculum this program fits the bill. This program is fun, interactive, engaging and creative. I highly recommend this program.
Alex K.
Music Specialist
I am a retired music teacher in Farmington Hills, MI that is Orff certified. When I was teaching, I used Orff and Kodaly techniques with my students. This program uses many of the same techniques that I used when I was teaching, Kodaly hand signs, movement, etc. This is an excellent program and presentation and I highly recommend it!
Judy M.
Retired Music Teacher
My daughter has learned so much with you this year! She has been writing her own music! Exited about Maestro 1.