Online Piano & Voice Lessons that Build Skill, Confidence, & Joy
Sounds of Joy Music Studio offers online piano and voice lessons for children, teens, and adults across the United States.
Founded by music teacher Rebecca Alderman, the studio focuses on joyful instruction, musical growth, and confidence-building in a supportive, faith-friendly environment.
Piano Lessons
Let games and fun music activities teach the "kid in you" to play songs you know and love. These ongoing lessons develop well-rounded musicians who understand and play the piano for audiences of all ages. Our lessons are ideal for homeschool families seeking flexible, Christian-aligned music instruction.
You will play a song with a band soundtrack on your very first lesson. Build your repertoire and earn your way to a piano party.
The excitement grows as you play by ear and touch in Unit 1. And you'll be playing left-hand chords by the end of Unit 1.
Learn rhythm patterns using games and APPs. You'll get access to lots of rhythm activity games. Can your parents & siblings play rhythm cup games with you? Of course! And you can teach them how!
Learning through manipulatives and memorable stories, plus many approved family-friendly APPs to help students easily grasp and retain vital stepping blocks of information to become successful musicians for life. Online games are innumerable and tons of fun!
You'll learn to play songs in multiple keys with the skill of transposing. Plus, you begin immediately learning to improvise while playing with the band.
You'll start reading music in Unit 2 or as soon as you're ready. Connect the keyboard note letter names to the music staff note names with memorable stories. Plus, play more games to practice what you know.
You'll even learn through simple activities how to compose your own rhythm and melody patterns.
ADVANCED - ACCELERATED
Piano Lessons
Students must have a fundamental grasp of music elements, symbols, and patterns, and be able to feel the rhythm patterns within a beat. A short phone interview will determine how much is needed before taking the CHORDS course.
Klip-it / Pitch Profiler / Escape Room(s) / Sea Turtle Intern / Battleship / Bingo Plus Various APPs so students can practice the concepts.
1. Five-Finger Pattern
Learn the 5-finger patterns around the Circle of Keys after learning the Major and Minor whole and half step patterns. Do you say chord or triad? What is a tonic or a dominant? Create your own melody and harmonize with the tonic and the dominant.
2. Building Chords
Learn the Major, Minor, Diminished, and Augmented Chords and their symbols. Learn the Root, 3rd, and 5th and how to measure Major & Minor 3rds by half steps. Play your first chord progression. We'll use APPs for practice and technical drills.
3. Relating Chords
Learn how to construct Major Scales and use Scale Degrees. Understand Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, and Leading Tone Scales and Chord Names. Work with Primary and Secondary Chords, Substitution, and Roman Numerals. Discover the quality and function of chords.
4. Arranging Chords
You must comprehend fully how to play and spell major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads, major scales, diatonic chords, chord spelling, and Roman Numerals before proceeding. Moving forward, we will learn chords in root position, 1st and 2nd inversions, and how to identify each position on the piano and the staff. We will also cover Figured Bass symbols for root, 1st and 2nd inversion, as well as the Nashville Numbers.
5. Designing 7th Chords
You must review the previous scoops thoroughly before you begin. If you have any doubts about how to play and spell major and minor 3rds, major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads, major scales, diatonic chords, chord spelling, and Roman Numerals, head back to the prior scoop. Here we will expand to four qualities of a triad, how to change triads into 7th chords, the various types of 7th chords, the intervals of a 7th, the chord symbols, figured bass, and a Roman Numeral cadence in C.
Piano Gift
This young lady is trying out a piano gift at our studio, which was given anonymously. She's so excited and demonstrates her ability to play both hands together simultaneously at the end of Unit 1.
First Recital
On her first recital ever, her family chose an intimate evening with family and friends. She not only plays and sings her own two compositions, but she also provided her audience with a surprise appearance of her little sister playing guitar and singing with her a familiar worship song.
A Temporary Handicap
This dear student kept going until she was smoothly playing the familiar tune across the keys. When students have physical challenges, we make special arrangements of the songs to get the best interpretation, but with fingering that doesn't cause uncomfortable side effects. She did great!
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