Music Lab Progression Program: Comprehensive Breakdown & Roadmap 🎵📚✨

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Our Music Lab program is designed to provide a structured, engaging, and progressive learning journey for students across various instruments, from absolute beginners to advanced players preparing for higher music education. Below is a breakdown of each level, including progression criteria and key learning outcomes. 🎼🎸🎹

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MLKidz (Ages 4-6) – Introduction to Music 🎶🌟🎵

• Duration: 30-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Basic rhythm, simple melodies, finger coordination, musical games, and fun activities.

• Key Skills: Clapping rhythms, recognizing musical patterns, handling instruments correctly, playing basic notes or chords, and developing a sense of musicality.

• Progression Criteria: Comfortable with basic rhythms and note playing, ability to follow simple instructions in a group setting.

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ML1 – Beginner Musicians (Ages 6+) 🎼🎸🎹

• Duration: 30-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Foundational skills, rhythm awareness, playing with others.

• Key Skills: Holding the instrument correctly, basic fretting or fingering, strumming or bowing, playing simple melodies, recognizing basic notation.

• Progression Criteria: Playing simple melodies and rhythms with consistent timing.

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ML2 – Developing Musicians 🎵🎯🎻

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Expanding technical ability, rhythmic development, playing structured pieces.

• Key Skills: Simple chord progressions, dynamic control, alternating playing styles, simple sight-reading or ear training.

• Progression Criteria: Ability to switch between fundamental techniques smoothly and maintain steady rhythm within a piece.
   

ML3 – Early Intermediate 🎶🎸🎼

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Refining techniques, more complex musical structures, introduction to improvisation.

• Key Skills: Developing fluency in playing, fingerpicking or bowing techniques, understanding scales and key signatures, playing along with accompaniment.

• Progression Criteria: Playing full pieces with smooth transitions, basic improvisation over a backing track.
   

ML4 – Intermediate 🎻🎹🎶

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Strengthening technique, playing in different styles, performance confidence.

• Key Skills: Understanding phrasing, articulation, chord embellishments, improvisation basics.

• Progression Criteria: Confidently playing structured pieces, demonstrating expression and dynamics.
   

ML5 – Upper Intermediate 🎸🎵🔥

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Expressive playing, stylistic development, improvisation.

• Key Skills: Mastery of scales, arpeggios, complex rhythm patterns, phrasing and tone control.

• Progression Criteria: Developing personal expression through music, understanding how to shape sound with technique.
   

ML6 – Advanced Technique & Musicality 🎶🎼✨

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Mastering advanced rhythmic and melodic techniques, deep musical interpretation.

• Key Skills: Syncopation, ornamentation, extended chord voicings, complex improvisation.

• Progression Criteria: Strong ability to adapt to various musical contexts with technical precision.
   

ML7 – Performance & Composition Focus 🎵🎤🎼

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Refining stage presence, songwriting, musical creativity.

• Key Skills: Writing original melodies or riffs, structuring compositions, performance skills.

• Progression Criteria: Capable of composing and performing original works confidently.
   

ML8 – Pre-Professional Musicianship 🎸🎻🎶

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Specialization in preferred genres, developing a unique artistic voice.

• Key Skills: Advanced harmony, modal playing, professional rehearsal techniques.

• Progression Criteria: Demonstrating mastery over a chosen style and ability to adapt dynamically to various musical challenges.
   

ML9 – Premium Level (College/University Preparation) 🎼🎹🎸

• Duration: 45-minute weekly classes

• Focus Areas: Advanced music theory, professional performance techniques, in-depth improvisation and stylistic development.

• Key Skills: Advanced harmony, ear training, sight-reading, extended soloing techniques, music business basics.

• Progression Criteria: Readiness for auditions, performances, and professional opportunities in music.
   

Final Notes on Progression & Scheduling 🎯📅📢

• Students may need to change time slots as they progress to ensure the best possible learning experience.

• Classes at ML1 level remain at 30 minutes; all other levels from ML2 onward are 45 minutes.

• Flexibility is required as students are grouped according to their ability and progression speed.
   

For more information or to find the right level for your child, contact us at info@musiclabschool.co.uk. 🎶📩🎵