Our prep-free way to incorporate music making and faith at home
Incorporating music learning into our prayers and at-home Catechesis has been GAME CHANGING for our family.
My kids went from:
"Ugh do we HAVE to pray the Rosary AGAIN?"
to 🙂
"MOM! It's MONDAY - Can we play the Joyful Mysteries on the Pitch Bars???"
We’re a Catholic family with 4 kids under 7 years old. I’m a K-4 music teacher of 12 years, and my husband is a film producer by trade. We decided the producer/Hollywood life wasn’t for us, so we quit all that to start what we’ve felt called to do - to bring more music & faith into the homes of children.
In fact, our own children really inspired this journey. When I was shopping for an instrument for my oldest son, I wasn’t happy with anything on the market - all the “toy instruments” were clanky and not very “musical”, just noisy (Or they were light-up, battery operated ones with terrible sound).
I knew he wasn’t ready for a $500+ “real instrument” just yet. So we designed something that should be in every child’s home: A real, affordable instrument that sounds beautiful.
Our Pitch Bars are a professionally tuned, high quality instrument that kids can play on their own - without any prep and very minimal instruction.
The color-coded music notation makes it easy for anyone to follow, from 3-year-olds to adults who may have never learned to read music.
And my favorite part about it: Catholic Hymns & prayers are incorporated into learning and reading music.
I love setting up my kids in the backroom with the Pitch Bars, and hearing the gentle chimes of "Immaculate Mary" or "Amazing Grace" in the background as I'm making dinner. It's a welcome break from the normal thuds and chaos that our house tends to project.
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BTW, if you're new here, get access to all out free prayer & music resources? It's our full list of content that we add to, as we cycle through the liturgical seasons. It includes downloads, videos & sneak peeks into what we're working on! For example, you'll have access to helpful resources like our Musical Advent Guide that features "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel", and our St Nicholas Lesson that features the song "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"