Already purchased as soon as i saw the email! I somewhat disagree that this is not as beneficial for parents that are musically inclined. Before having my daughter i was a violin teacher (teaching as young as 2) and i still perform regularly, but i knew i wanted this as soon as i saw it! The way it is all set up looks AMAZING for young minds. There are other similar resources for teaching littles but this was so well thought out that I knew I had to have it! I can also see a lot of use for these if i ever start teaching again. Thanks for making me feel even better about this purchase! Im so excited to get it!
So happy to hear it! I said “it may not be as beneficial (or something like that)” because I have no background and didn’t want musically inclined parents to look at me sideways like “this is obvious stuff here” haha so I’m thrilled to see multiple comments with music backgrounds giving it the 👍👍
This looks amazing!!!! I wish they had it here in Europe!! And I do think this is awesome even for musically inclined parents. My son goes to a music class once a week, after Montessori school, and it's one that specifically follows Edwin Gordon's musical theory, which is absolutely the number one best teaching method for music for kids! It's engaging, intuitive, self paced and fun. My son suddenly got a LOT more interested in music and now I hear him sing every day. I'm super happy my former music teacher recomended that method to me. I thought it would be worth mentioning because, if you're a parent looking for music classes for your kid, definitely try to find one that follows that method, if possible! (Aaaah, I want that kit!!! 😭😭😭)
Ahh loves this! Thank you for sharing!! Yeah my daughter has been making up tons of songs and singing to herself even more since this! It’s so cool to see!
Prodigies desk bells are incredible and i believe the reason for my children having perfect pitch 👍🏻 i recommend them to every parent i know. The music books are very similar in concept
I love these so much. Another dupe for the bells and song book is prodigies my first song book. That song book had color coded notes for bells in an 8 bell set.
Someone just mentioned that, thank you!! And for anyone going through the comments: Their bells are currently sold out, and typically cost $100 for the complete set and $75 for the 5 bell set -- but I'm adding the song book to the links! bit.ly/3Lc52a9
@@confidentlymom Yeah I hadn’t checked their prices in a while but I knew they we expensive. I didn’t actually realize they had a 5 bell set. But I’m so glad Lovevery came out with their set because I really don’t care for the screen aspect of prodigies and it just didn’t seem worth it to only get the bells and songbook because I don’t have a great background in teaching music.
Ahh we’ve been using that quite a bit!! And I think the review will be out in the next month or so! I’ll keep that in mind as I curate the dupes and talk about that specifically!!
Ahh happy almost birthday to her! She's going to have a blast! My 4 year old has played with them almost every day! Even setting up "booby traps" with them haha!
Thanks for the review! I got the email and went to explore it on the site. I went ahead and bought it for my son, who is 2. But I think my 6 year old will enjoy it too 🙂
So many people are hoping for international deliveries being available and easier!! I hope they figure it out! Their manufacturer is a German toy company’s china watehouse
@@confidentlymom that's really interesting! Thank you for your response and all your amazing videos! You inspire me so much on how to raise my first baby (he'll turn 2 months old tomorrow ♡). I really appreciate all the hard work and passion you put into your amazing blog and UA-cam channel :) Sending love from Germany 🤗☃️
For sure! Mine is 4.5+ and loves it! Music instruments never go out of style and I think it def depends on your child’s interests in “reading” and following instructions but it really is the perfect time for her with “reading” the music
It's technically rated safe for 18 months and up... but personally, with birthdays that fall between October- Feb, I often get items that they need to "grow into" since it's so close to the holidays. Additionally, I think 1 year olds will have fun with the items (supervised). I'd much rather my one year old push the bells than push the mosaic music cube (super popular baby music toy I talk about in the baby music toys blog post). They def won't be able to use the pan flute and I probably wouldn't introduce the music book yet. The concertina may just get smashed around (which still does produce music and my 2 year old does this still in addition to playing it properly), but shakers, jingler, and bells should be good to go right out of the box at that age!
I was so excited when I saw this morning that they are releasing a music kit. Whenever they asked us for feedback (we often got the playkits when they first came out), I always responded how great it would be if lovevery worked on a unique instrument to include at some point. Now they made a whole kit out of it and after watching your video and a couple others who reviewed it, I have to admit I'm disappointed. It's terribly overpriced for what it entails and I'm missing the unique lovevery angle in most of it. Overpriced especially for anyone who already has musical instruments for littles at home (which let's face it, a lot of people do - and if they don't, aren't a lot of everyday items shakers or drums anyway 😄 ). One thing I may have been interested in (which has been on my list to get for my kids for a while now) is the desk bells (I just cannot decide if desk bells or handbells would work better for what I want to use them for with my kids). But they only include 5 bells, which makes it a big no to me, even though I otherwise may have been interested since I trust the lovevery quality more than a lot of Amazon sellers 😂 but with them only including 5 bells, that's definitely not something I'm going to compromise on. I see a lot of people being excited though, so I seem to be in the minority so far. I also noticed quite a few reviewers saying how this kit will help them to introduce musical concepts to their kids since they never played an instrument or have any other connection to music but listening to it. So maybe it's a US thing? I'm not sure, but the kit just doesn't seem helpful to me as someone who was raised in a country where musical education is normal (and free, being part of the mandatory curriculum from an early pre-K age all the way up to end of at least middle school age - not to mention all the opportunities to focus on individual interests, even early on) - so it just feels weird how scholarly this introduction is vs all the many ways to introduce many of these concepts naturally to kids, completely free of charge. And honestly, there are quite a few approaches I can immediately see in this kit that definitely go against some concepts of how to introduce certain musical concepts (the biggest nope to me is the odd way of how rhythm is introduced in that booklet, yiekes - 1 pear equals 4 avocado slices 🤯 how is that supposed to be helpful). Anyway, we love music and a majority of our day is spent with singing, dancing and playing instruments. Some of my favorite "hacks" to get the kids engaged is to make their own instruments (e.g. make some loud/quiet shakers yourselves by just filling some old spice jars with different things); for our nearly 4 year old, using dot markers to put notes of the song she wants to play on a paper (this way it doesn't matter which color coded instrument the kid wants to use or if the color coding changes and no limitations to the song selection - so much more flexible); and different kind of hand percussions/ Orf instruments (just works so well to play songs together, even with smaller kids). And I 100% agree with you - wind instruments are THE way to go for kids with difficulties saying certain sounds. We have a harmonica, wooden recorder and train whistle - all require to make different mouth shapes to make a sound and help a kid so much better with feedback than e.g. blowing up a balloon or blowing on a pinwheel (so many more ways to experiment to move the mouth and change the output). So I guess the lovevery pan flute does look kind of interesting since it gives a kid even the visual feedback of playing different notes. So I'll probably check second hand for one of those once people start reselling 😉 Thanks for the review, it's always so immensely helpful to see the kits in detail to make a buying decision.
You’re comments are always so insightful and thorough! Seriously I’m def implementing some of these! The dot marker is brilliant!! I think your exactly the person I was referring to who wouldn’t find value in this! Financially it is on par with self curating from what I could find so idk if it’s overpriced, but with your knowledge base and such diverse instruments in the home you’re light years ahead! I do agree though when I saw the bells dupe had 8 I couldn’t help but wonder why they limited teachings to five notes and how quickly my 4 year old will ultimately master it… I saw on their sales page today they “made it with parents ears in mind” and wanted to only “include notes that sound good together” no matter what order they’re played… so I’m guessing they knew it would ruffle some others would feel like us. But ultimately I’m happy with it for now. Also the pear and avocado is really teaching syllables/notes it’s for teaching kids to clap on the beat (syllable) I had a feel that was NOT how it was typically taught which is why I didn’t try to find a book dupe for it. Do you have a suggestion not tied to a specific instrument?
@@confidentlymom Thank you. Oh wow, I didn't see that they reduced it to 5 bells with the explanation "parent's ears in mind" - I would have assumed it's to reduce costs. That makes it worse for me - that is such a culturally difficult statement to make since a lot of cultures actually do not have the idea of the pentatonic scale sounding particularly good as we do in Western Centric cultures. But not even sure if I buy that statement of theirs - especially with bells, it would be so easy to include 8 and just give a tip to the parents to remove bells and add, as necessary. To me, the core of early childhood musical education is to "educate" a child's ear. Therefore, at least include all natural notes? There is a reason any instrument, including singing, always teaches scales - up and down. It's how the ear gets accustomed to the differences between notes and how "far apart" notes are from each other. It can be helpful to reduce the amount of notes by utilizing the pentatonic scale but AFTER understanding note distances. So if the focus of the kit would be to include simplified instruments to make it easy for kids to play songs, then ok - but the kit is supposed to be educational in music, so it's really lacking not to even include all the naturals. I see it like this: kids literally don't even learn all natural notes with the kit, so what is the point of all the more complex academical aspects of the kit, if it already fails there (is it really helpful for my kid to learn the difference of 120 bpm vs 250 or is it enough to say slow, moderate, fast since with this kit they don't even learn how an F sounds 🤯 ). Plus, it's actually really fun and a great exercise for toddlers to play do-re-mi (or any variations of it) on Xylophone/piano/etc to learn to only hit one note at a time and just going up and down (this way they're playing a song even if following notes on paper is still too complex for them - so simplification is possible without reducing the amount of notes). The reason I particularly mentioned note durations in the book is mostly because of the idea to teach that to kids and in that weird way on top of it, when you first want to focus on rhythm. Note durations are meaningless otherwise. I had a piano teacher as a kid who approached it very mathematically and used pizza as note symbols (whole pizza, half pizza, quarter pizza) to introduce note durations to me - it was memorable enough that I still remember that today 😆 a way I find very intuitive to learn about rhythm and note duration, is marching. It's actually a pretty popular way to teach it - get the kids marching (my kids love marching, so it was the way to go for us), then add counting and clapping as they can handle it. Once that connection is made, a popular way is to teach for one big daddy step, mommy needs two medium steps, while the kids march 1-2-3-4 (lots of online material out there with this or similar methods). Anyway, it's not really something I focus on with my kids, except for fun - I find getting a feeling for rhythms more helpful and fun. We often clap to the rhythm of songs we like and it gives kids such a great feeling of sometimes we say several syllables/words during one clap (easy ones to start with would be the ABC song or row, row, row your boat - my kids also absolutely love to clap to my favorite things). Another thing that stuck out to me on Lovevery's homepage, was the explanation why they introduced a metronome. Seriously, in all my years playing an instrument and singing (including orchestra and choir), I can count on one hand where we actually used one - otherwise I pretty much only saw it in school when it was part of the curriculum 😂 lovevery says that kids have difficulty with mixing up faster and loud - I can see that later when playing certain instruments (some wind instruments you actually need to learn certain breathing techniques to play e.g. fast+quiet successfully) but I never heard it to be a general problem 🤔🤷♀️ Anyway, I found good old head, shoulders, knees and toes the easiest way to get my kids to understand that you can play a song in different speeds - and I can guarantee you that they sing it loud, no matter if they sing it slow, moderate or fast 😁 So we don't really have educational books about music - like using paint to mix colors, hands on is the way for us with music, or more precisely ears on 😆 But both my kids liked the baby's big world music board book when they were young toddlers - definitely more for 18 months olds and very simple, so not like the academical way of lovevery's booklet. It introduces music terminology in a comprehensive and easy way, though (it's the reason why my kids often refer to loud and quiet as forte and piano, which is absolutely hilarious in a 2 and nearly 4 year old 😂 ). The ideas in lovevery's booklet are usually what I see in the first couple pages of kid's song collections - I mostly have foreign ones, so no concrete recommendation here. Btw, such collections also often have great suggestions for games and exercises for teaching certain concepts with certain songs. So that's what I would recommend looking for as a dupe - a lot of these are called something like my first songbook or similar. I do know that Prodigies brand has a well rated one - but do not own it, so I'm not sure what exactly is inside or if it's similar to lovevery (it's been on my list to get for the kids for a while though).
Definitely! She's closer to 5 than to 4 - and music instruments are things she always picks up. We have 8 and 11 year old friends over who always "start a band" with the kids so I don't think they'll go untouched unless I got better instruments down the road. Plus the way the book is set up, as she learns how to use it more, she'll be able to do it independenltly which i dont think will happen until 5+ for her
I am really debating if I need to spend an extra 120$ besides all the play kit 🙈 By the way what are your play couch, like the arc shape. Do you have a review on those?
Oh gosh metronomes aren’t silent lol so I have no idea. Sometimes my brain moves faster than my mouth and the wrong word comes out. Do you have a time stamp so I can figure it out haha
@@wisdomencouraged9326 OMG I know what that was 🤣🤣🤣 That's my brain being in Garageband WAY to much for my own good where I have the settings set for the metronome just ticking, but not audible LOL and editing WAY to much content when I did this video - I can hear the exhaustion in my voice lol Thanks for catching it!
UPDATE: Per your suggestions, a great dupe for the kids song book: bit.ly/3Lc52a9
Already purchased as soon as i saw the email! I somewhat disagree that this is not as beneficial for parents that are musically inclined. Before having my daughter i was a violin teacher (teaching as young as 2) and i still perform regularly, but i knew i wanted this as soon as i saw it! The way it is all set up looks AMAZING for young minds. There are other similar resources for teaching littles but this was so well thought out that I knew I had to have it! I can also see a lot of use for these if i ever start teaching again. Thanks for making me feel even better about this purchase! Im so excited to get it!
So happy to hear it! I said “it may not be as beneficial (or something like that)” because I have no background and didn’t want musically inclined parents to look at me sideways like “this is obvious stuff here” haha so I’m thrilled to see multiple comments with music backgrounds giving it the 👍👍
This looks amazing!!!! I wish they had it here in Europe!! And I do think this is awesome even for musically inclined parents.
My son goes to a music class once a week, after Montessori school, and it's one that specifically follows Edwin Gordon's musical theory, which is absolutely the number one best teaching method for music for kids! It's engaging, intuitive, self paced and fun. My son suddenly got a LOT more interested in music and now I hear him sing every day. I'm super happy my former music teacher recomended that method to me. I thought it would be worth mentioning because, if you're a parent looking for music classes for your kid, definitely try to find one that follows that method, if possible!
(Aaaah, I want that kit!!! 😭😭😭)
Ahh loves this! Thank you for sharing!! Yeah my daughter has been making up tons of songs and singing to herself even more since this! It’s so cool to see!
@@confidentlymom hi!
Prodigies desk bells are incredible and i believe the reason for my children having perfect pitch 👍🏻 i recommend them to every parent i know. The music books are very similar in concept
I love these so much. Another dupe for the bells and song book is prodigies my first song book. That song book had color coded notes for bells in an 8 bell set.
Someone just mentioned that, thank you!!
And for anyone going through the comments: Their bells are currently sold out, and typically cost $100 for the complete set and $75 for the 5 bell set -- but I'm adding the song book to the links! bit.ly/3Lc52a9
@@confidentlymom Yeah I hadn’t checked their prices in a while but I knew they we expensive. I didn’t actually realize they had a 5 bell set. But I’m so glad Lovevery came out with their set because I really don’t care for the screen aspect of prodigies and it just didn’t seem worth it to only get the bells and songbook because I don’t have a great background in teaching music.
I can't wait to see your review of the Persister play kit! I'm not sure if I should buy it or a traditional Montessori movable alphabet.
Ahh we’ve been using that quite a bit!! And I think the review will be out in the next month or so! I’ll keep that in mind as I curate the dupes and talk about that specifically!!
My daughter 4th birthday is on 9/7. That will be her birthday gift. Thank you ❤
Ahh happy almost birthday to her! She's going to have a blast! My 4 year old has played with them almost every day! Even setting up "booby traps" with them haha!
Thanks for the review! I got the email and went to explore it on the site. I went ahead and bought it for my son, who is 2. But I think my 6 year old will enjoy it too 🙂
For sure!
I am musically inclined (classically trained pianist) and I think this is a BRILLIANT way to expose very little kids to music.
Ahh so happy to hear it!
This is great! I hope it can be shipped to Europe soon :)
I think it might be now actually!
Great review, thank you! Does this set sell separately from the subscription like the block set & play gym?
Yes it does!
I'd LOVE to buy this here in Germany! ♡♡♡♡ :(
So many people are hoping for international deliveries being available and easier!! I hope they figure it out! Their manufacturer is a German toy company’s china watehouse
@@confidentlymom that's really interesting! Thank you for your response and all your amazing videos! You inspire me so much on how to raise my first baby (he'll turn 2 months old tomorrow ♡). I really appreciate all the hard work and passion you put into your amazing blog and UA-cam channel :)
Sending love from Germany 🤗☃️
i waaaaant this one!! I might be waiting til Christmas though. Would it still be worth it though for an almost 4 year old?
For sure! Mine is 4.5+ and loves it! Music instruments never go out of style and I think it def depends on your child’s interests in “reading” and following instructions but it really is the perfect time for her with “reading” the music
@@confidentlymom I ordered it... 👀😁. And I'm so excited!
What do you think of getting this for a 1 year old? My son will be 1 in October
It's technically rated safe for 18 months and up... but personally, with birthdays that fall between October- Feb, I often get items that they need to "grow into" since it's so close to the holidays.
Additionally, I think 1 year olds will have fun with the items (supervised). I'd much rather my one year old push the bells than push the mosaic music cube (super popular baby music toy I talk about in the baby music toys blog post). They def won't be able to use the pan flute and I probably wouldn't introduce the music book yet. The concertina may just get smashed around (which still does produce music and my 2 year old does this still in addition to playing it properly), but shakers, jingler, and bells should be good to go right out of the box at that age!
Thanks! I think I’ll get it.
What play couch do you have?
www.theconfusedmillennial.com/fbqb - I have some cheaper dupes linked in todays video /blog though
I was so excited when I saw this morning that they are releasing a music kit. Whenever they asked us for feedback (we often got the playkits when they first came out), I always responded how great it would be if lovevery worked on a unique instrument to include at some point. Now they made a whole kit out of it and after watching your video and a couple others who reviewed it, I have to admit I'm disappointed.
It's terribly overpriced for what it entails and I'm missing the unique lovevery angle in most of it. Overpriced especially for anyone who already has musical instruments for littles at home (which let's face it, a lot of people do - and if they don't, aren't a lot of everyday items shakers or drums anyway 😄 ).
One thing I may have been interested in (which has been on my list to get for my kids for a while now) is the desk bells (I just cannot decide if desk bells or handbells would work better for what I want to use them for with my kids). But they only include 5 bells, which makes it a big no to me, even though I otherwise may have been interested since I trust the lovevery quality more than a lot of Amazon sellers 😂 but with them only including 5 bells, that's definitely not something I'm going to compromise on.
I see a lot of people being excited though, so I seem to be in the minority so far. I also noticed quite a few reviewers saying how this kit will help them to introduce musical concepts to their kids since they never played an instrument or have any other connection to music but listening to it. So maybe it's a US thing? I'm not sure, but the kit just doesn't seem helpful to me as someone who was raised in a country where musical education is normal (and free, being part of the mandatory curriculum from an early pre-K age all the way up to end of at least middle school age - not to mention all the opportunities to focus on individual interests, even early on) - so it just feels weird how scholarly this introduction is vs all the many ways to introduce many of these concepts naturally to kids, completely free of charge.
And honestly, there are quite a few approaches I can immediately see in this kit that definitely go against some concepts of how to introduce certain musical concepts (the biggest nope to me is the odd way of how rhythm is introduced in that booklet, yiekes - 1 pear equals 4 avocado slices 🤯 how is that supposed to be helpful).
Anyway, we love music and a majority of our day is spent with singing, dancing and playing instruments. Some of my favorite "hacks" to get the kids engaged is to make their own instruments (e.g. make some loud/quiet shakers yourselves by just filling some old spice jars with different things); for our nearly 4 year old, using dot markers to put notes of the song she wants to play on a paper (this way it doesn't matter which color coded instrument the kid wants to use or if the color coding changes and no limitations to the song selection - so much more flexible); and different kind of hand percussions/ Orf instruments (just works so well to play songs together, even with smaller kids).
And I 100% agree with you - wind instruments are THE way to go for kids with difficulties saying certain sounds. We have a harmonica, wooden recorder and train whistle - all require to make different mouth shapes to make a sound and help a kid so much better with feedback than e.g. blowing up a balloon or blowing on a pinwheel (so many more ways to experiment to move the mouth and change the output). So I guess the lovevery pan flute does look kind of interesting since it gives a kid even the visual feedback of playing different notes. So I'll probably check second hand for one of those once people start reselling 😉
Thanks for the review, it's always so immensely helpful to see the kits in detail to make a buying decision.
You’re comments are always so insightful and thorough! Seriously I’m def implementing some of these! The dot marker is brilliant!!
I think your exactly the person I was referring to who wouldn’t find value in this! Financially it is on par with self curating from what I could find so idk if it’s overpriced, but with your knowledge base and such diverse instruments in the home you’re light years ahead!
I do agree though when I saw the bells dupe had 8 I couldn’t help but wonder why they limited teachings to five notes and how quickly my 4 year old will ultimately master it… I saw on their sales page today they “made it with parents ears in mind” and wanted to only “include notes that sound good together” no matter what order they’re played… so I’m guessing they knew it would ruffle some others would feel like us. But ultimately I’m happy with it for now.
Also the pear and avocado is really teaching syllables/notes it’s for teaching kids to clap on the beat (syllable) I had a feel that was NOT how it was typically taught which is why I didn’t try to find a book dupe for it. Do you have a suggestion not tied to a specific instrument?
@@confidentlymom Thank you.
Oh wow, I didn't see that they reduced it to 5 bells with the explanation "parent's ears in mind" - I would have assumed it's to reduce costs. That makes it worse for me - that is such a culturally difficult statement to make since a lot of cultures actually do not have the idea of the pentatonic scale sounding particularly good as we do in Western Centric cultures. But not even sure if I buy that statement of theirs - especially with bells, it would be so easy to include 8 and just give a tip to the parents to remove bells and add, as necessary.
To me, the core of early childhood musical education is to "educate" a child's ear. Therefore, at least include all natural notes? There is a reason any instrument, including singing, always teaches scales - up and down. It's how the ear gets accustomed to the differences between notes and how "far apart" notes are from each other. It can be helpful to reduce the amount of notes by utilizing the pentatonic scale but AFTER understanding note distances. So if the focus of the kit would be to include simplified instruments to make it easy for kids to play songs, then ok - but the kit is supposed to be educational in music, so it's really lacking not to even include all the naturals. I see it like this: kids literally don't even learn all natural notes with the kit, so what is the point of all the more complex academical aspects of the kit, if it already fails there (is it really helpful for my kid to learn the difference of 120 bpm vs 250 or is it enough to say slow, moderate, fast since with this kit they don't even learn how an F sounds 🤯 ). Plus, it's actually really fun and a great exercise for toddlers to play do-re-mi (or any variations of it) on Xylophone/piano/etc to learn to only hit one note at a time and just going up and down (this way they're playing a song even if following notes on paper is still too complex for them - so simplification is possible without reducing the amount of notes).
The reason I particularly mentioned note durations in the book is mostly because of the idea to teach that to kids and in that weird way on top of it, when you first want to focus on rhythm. Note durations are meaningless otherwise. I had a piano teacher as a kid who approached it very mathematically and used pizza as note symbols (whole pizza, half pizza, quarter pizza) to introduce note durations to me - it was memorable enough that I still remember that today 😆 a way I find very intuitive to learn about rhythm and note duration, is marching. It's actually a pretty popular way to teach it - get the kids marching (my kids love marching, so it was the way to go for us), then add counting and clapping as they can handle it. Once that connection is made, a popular way is to teach for one big daddy step, mommy needs two medium steps, while the kids march 1-2-3-4 (lots of online material out there with this or similar methods). Anyway, it's not really something I focus on with my kids, except for fun - I find getting a feeling for rhythms more helpful and fun. We often clap to the rhythm of songs we like and it gives kids such a great feeling of sometimes we say several syllables/words during one clap (easy ones to start with would be the ABC song or row, row, row your boat - my kids also absolutely love to clap to my favorite things).
Another thing that stuck out to me on Lovevery's homepage, was the explanation why they introduced a metronome. Seriously, in all my years playing an instrument and singing (including orchestra and choir), I can count on one hand where we actually used one - otherwise I pretty much only saw it in school when it was part of the curriculum 😂 lovevery says that kids have difficulty with mixing up faster and loud - I can see that later when playing certain instruments (some wind instruments you actually need to learn certain breathing techniques to play e.g. fast+quiet successfully) but I never heard it to be a general problem 🤔🤷♀️ Anyway, I found good old head, shoulders, knees and toes the easiest way to get my kids to understand that you can play a song in different speeds - and I can guarantee you that they sing it loud, no matter if they sing it slow, moderate or fast 😁
So we don't really have educational books about music - like using paint to mix colors, hands on is the way for us with music, or more precisely ears on 😆 But both my kids liked the baby's big world music board book when they were young toddlers - definitely more for 18 months olds and very simple, so not like the academical way of lovevery's booklet. It introduces music terminology in a comprehensive and easy way, though (it's the reason why my kids often refer to loud and quiet as forte and piano, which is absolutely hilarious in a 2 and nearly 4 year old 😂 ). The ideas in lovevery's booklet are usually what I see in the first couple pages of kid's song collections - I mostly have foreign ones, so no concrete recommendation here. Btw, such collections also often have great suggestions for games and exercises for teaching certain concepts with certain songs. So that's what I would recommend looking for as a dupe - a lot of these are called something like my first songbook or similar. I do know that Prodigies brand has a well rated one - but do not own it, so I'm not sure what exactly is inside or if it's similar to lovevery (it's been on my list to get for the kids for a while though).
Do you think your daughter will still find interest in this set throughout her 5th year or do you think she will out grow it by then?
Definitely! She's closer to 5 than to 4 - and music instruments are things she always picks up. We have 8 and 11 year old friends over who always "start a band" with the kids so I don't think they'll go untouched unless I got better instruments down the road. Plus the way the book is set up, as she learns how to use it more, she'll be able to do it independenltly which i dont think will happen until 5+ for her
I wish they had 8 notes for the bells
yeah.
I am really debating if I need to spend an extra 120$ besides all the play kit 🙈 By the way what are your play couch, like the arc shape. Do you have a review on those?
I don’t and dk if I’ll make one, it’s epic kids though!
Wait what do you mean metronomes are typically silent? 😂
Oh gosh metronomes aren’t silent lol so I have no idea. Sometimes my brain moves faster than my mouth and the wrong word comes out. Do you have a time stamp so I can figure it out haha
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@@wisdomencouraged9326 OMG I know what that was 🤣🤣🤣 That's my brain being in Garageband WAY to much for my own good where I have the settings set for the metronome just ticking, but not audible LOL and editing WAY to much content when I did this video - I can hear the exhaustion in my voice lol Thanks for catching it!