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The homeschool composition curriculum that turns piano students into composers — kids who sit down at the keyboard because they finally have something of their own to write.
Your child can read music. They can play the notes on the page — someone else's notes, written by someone else, a long time ago. And somewhere in the third or fourth year, the spark goes quiet. They practice because they're told to.
It is almost never a failure of talent or teaching. It is that music never became something they make — only something they perform. The day it becomes theirs is the day they stop walking away.
Not worksheets. Not theory drills to pass a test. A piece of music, in their own hand — and by the end of the first year, four of them.
A first piece in the rhythm of speech. Heard first, then written down.
A second voice walks against the first — consonance, dissonance, the pull home.
Soprano, alto, tenor, bass: the architecture under every hymn they already know.
A finished piece in their own hand — recorded, printed, played for the family.
What used to be a vague hope — someday she'll write music — becomes a folder of finished pieces, in her own hand, on the piano.
Your child starts where they are — and the world they enter grows up as they do.
An adventure-map world with colorful note characters, real staff notation, and playable tools — never just videos. The ear leads, and every lesson can be read aloud for pre-readers.
Preview the Young Composers Track →The same craft, drawn in the geometry of music itself — the tonal diagrams Maestro sketches beside every piece your child writes. Refined notation, real counterpoint, the composer's own tools.
Preview the curriculum →Twelve stages, a single daily practice. The first year ends in four finished pieces; the fourth ends in a capstone composition your child writes, records, and keeps. A real credential — completable at home, on your schedule, transcript-ready and ESA-eligible. And when your child reaches the high school years, each year of Gradus counts as a fine arts credit in Music Theory & Composition — you award and record it, and the credit guide hands you the transcript course names, credit-hour math, and standards alignment.
The first four pieces — melody, two voices, chorale, a song.
Counterpoint and form: the shapes music moves through.
Harmony and the masters, studied bar by bar.
A capstone composition, written and recorded. The certificate earned.
$199 the first year, $299 each year after. No tiers, no upsells — the whole method, one price.
Yes. Gradus is parent-level reimbursable in ESA states — you submit your own receipts, no vendor approval needed. A syllabus, a scope-and-sequence, and clean invoices come ready for your file.
No — it completes it. Their teacher keeps the playing; Gradus adds the composing. Glad they learned the instrument. Now give them something of their own to write.
No. The masterworks play right inside Gradus — Beethoven, Bach, the great recordings — in a sealed player with no comments, no recommended videos, and no way out to YouTube itself. The music plays, and nothing else.
Ages six through high school. The same method runs in three tracks that grow with your child: Young Composers for ages 6 to 9, Junior Composers for ages 10 to 13, and Gradus Composers for ages 14 and up. You can start at any age, and a child moves up a track when they are ready — not on a schedule.
No. Neither you nor your child needs any musical background, and you are never asked to explain a concept. Reading music is taught inside the curriculum itself, and Maestro — your child's personal composition tutor — does the teaching in every lesson.
A few focused minutes: hear something, learn something, write something. Every lesson ends with your child writing real music on a real staff, and they hear it played back. It is not videos and it is not a game — your child composes from the very first lesson.
No — it adds to them. Most music education teaches a child to play other people's music. Gradus teaches them to write their own, which is the surest path to a lifelong love of music. It works alongside any instrument program, and children who already read music simply move through the early lessons more quickly.
Yes. Most ESA states reimburse curriculum at the parent level, and Gradus arrives ready to file: a syllabus, a scope and sequence, a sample lesson, and an itemized invoice and receipt for each child.
Yes. A full year of Gradus is designed to be recorded as a high school fine arts credit in music theory and composition. The credit guide gives you the transcript course names, the credit-hour math, and standards alignment, so the record-keeping is already done.
Twelve stages, from a single melodic line through counterpoint, harmony, and orchestration to an original capstone composition your child writes and keeps. It is a multi-year path that grows with your child, and families move at their own pace — there is no schedule to keep up with.
Built on the method that trained Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms — rebuilt as a daily practice your child does, not watches.