KinderBach Review

Playing piano is a skill I would love all my children to learn. I can plunk my way around the keyboard, read music, and we even have a big old upright piano in the dining room. I can teach my own kids the basics, I think. Piano lessons are out of the budget right now either way. I was happy when we were given the opportunity to review KinderBach. We received a 3 month subscription through the TOS Crew and I hopped on the website to look around. KinderBach is an online piano instruction program for ages 3-7. There are 6 levels with 10 weeks in each level, for a total of 60 lessons. Each lesson has 4 days of activities, though with children on the younger end of the age range repeating lessons is always helpful. KinderBach is also available as individual levels on DVD.

Video consists of the teacher against a cartoon background. The songs and cartoon characters are fun. There are books, activity sheets, and crafts to download that really make this program a hit for preschoolers. While KinderBach is recommended for ages 3-7, I think many 7 year olds would find it a bit to young for their liking. I know my 8 year old got bored with the slow pace and some of the songs. My 4 and 5 year olds enjoyed KinderBach, with some issues I'll mention in a moment.

I like that actual music terms are taught. You can see what is covered in the 6 levels HERE. A free 2 week trial is available HERE.

Online lessons begin at $7.99/month when you pay for a year in advance. Paying by month KinderBach costs $19.99/month. DVD levels begin at $40.45 each.

The big down side to KinderBach for our family is we have a piano, not a keyboard. The piano is in the dining room and the computer is in a different room. My children had to travel back and forth between rooms, pausing the online video to do each task, then come back. Often they forgot halfway there what they were supposed to be doing and came back to restart the video again (they are just 4 and 5). Sometimes they got lost in the fun of making music on the piano and never came back to finish the lesson. They also needed my help throughout the process to stop the video, start it again, rewind when needed, etc. It would take less of my time to just teach them the basics myself I think.

It just didn’t work out for us. If we were to invest in KinderBach we would choose the DVDs to use over the years with all our children, and we would need a way to play the DVD right at the piano (a laptop with really loud speakers comes to mind). Buying a portable keyboard would be another option.

If you are interested in KinderBach be sure to check out my Crewmates’ reviews for more opinions.

{Disclaimer: I received a 3 month online subscription free of charge from KinderBach to enable me to do this review. I received no other compensation and all opinions presented here are my own.}