We liked this online learning project so much that we invited Mary Ellen Pinzino, Founder/Director of the Come Children Sing Institute to explain her program for our readers. Since 1984, her organization has been a center for research and development in music learning. Mary Ellen tells you how to learn music online. Grandparents and kids can get FREE gift certificates via SKYPE.

The Come Children Sing Institute is conducting research on music learning in the youngest children through online music classes with distant grandparents via Skype.  Come Children, Sing! Online Music Classes for infants, babies and toddlers are designed so that distant grandparents can interact meaningfully with their youngest grandchildren in an ongoing developmental music program.

Grandparents can now engage with their little ones in online music classes from their own homes and on their own schedules, whatever their musical background.  MP3 files, music activities, and grandparent tips are all provided online, while the child sees only the loving grandparent onscreen, engaging with the child in music activities.

Discover new ways to interact with your youngest grandchild via Skype on a regular basis. Become part of the exciting process of your grandchild’s music development during the most important years for music learning. Just sing along, move along, play along, and go along with Come Children, Sing! and your little one via Skype.

Come Children, Sing! is a developmental music program that makes learning music as natural as learning language. Infants, babies and toddlers across the country are thriving musically on Come Children, Sing!, surprising loved ones with their focused attention to music activities designed for the young child’s music development.

Come Children, Sing! Online Music Classes deliver one new lesson each week for 10 weeks.  Participating grandparents are expected to engage with their loved one in weekly lessons for at least 10 minutes each week for 10 weeks, with 14 weeks to complete the 10 lessons. $40 gift certificates for continuing Online Music Classes will be provided for as long as grandparent and child engage in the program via Skype. Three years of quality music instruction for little children are now available online at Come Children, Sing! where you can view sample lessons. Distance learning has now reached the youngest children, with all the benefits of online education. To participate with your grandchild, send an email to Come Children, Sing! with your name, the age of your grandchild, and a notation that you read about the program at DigitalGrandparent.com.

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Work yourself up to an Aurgasm of sound

Aurgasm.us is a top-rated, award winning blog and is the right place for music fans to hang out. The writing is professional, the tone friendly, and the content terrific. The music coverage is divided into categories including classical, pop, soul, and others. The audience maybe primarily a younger set, but it’s worth a look, anyway, baby boomers.

Get up, come out of your musical rut, follow the Information Highway to an ear-tingling virtual vacation of music you’ve probably never heard. I was perusing the list of PC Mag’s favorite blogs and had to take a look at Aurgasm if for no other reason than I liked the name. It’s an aural blog by music geek Paul Irish. Loved it!

Aurgasm’s author, Paul Irish has gathered ear-candy, full length MP3’s of music, from all over the world in every genre. I found Emily Loizeau – a French singer-songwriter – pianist that just suits my taste. She’s fresh and lively – kinda like the Mugwumps of old – odd sounds and vocalizations mixed with excellent music. It’s in French, of course, and that’s the point – stuff I’ve never heard before to broaden my listening horizons.

I spent about an hour playing with the site – you can listen, buy songs or buy whole CDs. Give it a listen sometime when you need to perk up your outlook.

You might also stop in at Pandora which bills itself as a radio station that plays only what you like. You get to choose the style of music you enjoy, and after the site quizzes you on several areas of music, it determines what would please you and presents songs that fit those parameters. Music, food for the soul.

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