I teach Parents How to help their baby Thrive by learning to play music together.

It’s easier than you think, and So Much Fun!

For as long as I can remember, music has been part of my life. Growing up, my memories all revolve around music – playing it, singing it and dancing to it.

Everyone in my family loved music. My mom and dad sang in church every Sunday and my older siblings played instruments and would sing with me every time we had to do chores together. In fact, I vividly remember singing rounds of ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ while we washed the dishes, and learning how to sing harmony and to keep up with the rhythm.

When I was very little, my big sisters would pick me up and sit me on their laps, or on the piano bench next to them, and let me watch them play. I would take it in with amazement as their long (compared to mine) fingers would fly around the keys with such ease and play such beautiful songs! I was inspired by them. They would tell you now, that they were young, and not that good then. But to me, what they offered was enough. I wanted to be just like them.

They let me try things. They showed me little tiny tunes to play. I learned to listen, I learned that it was safe to experiment. I eventually learned how to play by listening to records (we had those back then) and duplicating what I heard. By age 5 I was playing songs by ear with moving chords in the left hand and a melody in the right hand. People told me I was gifted. What no one seemed to realize was that I was “gifted” by my parents and my older sisters. Their nurturing, safe, non-judgmental examples gave me the inspiration and the confidence to try things, and the desire to learn more. By this time I still didn’t know the letter names of the keys or the lines and spaces.

When I was finally allowed to take formal piano lessons, I already understood how notes moved up and down, how to listen, and how to keep time. I looked forward to theory class every week with my friends, because there I got to learn more about the language I had grown to love.

Now, as the founder of Little Bird Piano Academy®, I get to help parents give the gift of music to their babies at an early age, kind of like I had growing up, only with even more intention. Most parents don’t realize that music is a language and by introducing it to your children while they are young, you can have a truly profound impact on their upbringing in life.

In the same way you teach your child to talk, I’ll help you to teach your baby the language of music.

Welcome to Little Bird Piano Academy®.