Paris, France – Award-winning startup, Edoki Academy today is beyond excited to announce the release of Easy Music 1.2, a non-theory approach to learning music as a language available on iOS, Apple TV and Apple Watch! This will be the second app launched under Edoki and Seven Academy’s new name: Edoki Academy. With great success coming from their first release, Zen Studio, they are confident that Easy Music will be met with the same enthusiasm.

“With Easy Music’s intuitive, non-theory approach, your child will have fun exploring an evocative world while mastering skills fundamental to both performance and enjoyment of music.” – Evan Fein, Ear Training Instructor, Juilliard School

Easy Music is the perfect initiation into the world of music, no theory required! It is a beautifully animated app that introduces kids aged 5+ to musicality. Children learn to recognize notes, pitch, rhythm, and melody in a nature-inspired game environment. An interactive sand castle serves as a musical playground where curious kids can experiment with various instruments, genres of music and objects freely to compose their first music piece.

Before children learn the alphabet, they already know how to speak. On that same note, music instruction must follow the same natural progression. Kids should first learn to listen in order to learn how to play! And that’s exactly what they will do with Easy Music. The app accompanied by a very detailed printable “Parents and Teachers Handbook”, which includes information on how to navigate through the app to ensure a positive and effective learning experience for all! An extremely valuable resource for all parents and teachers!

A Child’s Highly Mature Ear:
Researchers have found that infants and young children have the ability to experience music in its purest form. A young child’s ear is very mature, meaning they are extremely sensitive to harmonics and pitch discrepancies. In turn, children have innate preferences to certain music pieces, base frequencies, melodies, rhythm and pitch.

Even more impressively, young children have the ability to discriminate tempo and notes. They can recognize the same piece of music, even when it is being played at different tempos. In addition, they can tell when the melody has been changed and a wrong note is being played. If that wasn’t enough, before a child turns one-year-old, they are better than adults at detecting wrong notes and remaining in key. Very simply put – children are born with the language of music in them, they just need the proper tools to hone in and sharpen their dialect.

Music and the Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being:
Music has the ability to ignite all areas of a child’s development: intellectual, social, emotional, motor, language and overall literacy. Research has positively concluded that exposing your child to music during early development helps them recognize and learn the sounds and meanings of words, due to the fact that they must tap into their memory each time they listen to a familiar song or sound.

It should come as no surprise that music has also been proven to consolidate a child’s social and emotional well-being. Introducing children to music at a young age allows them to identify their feelings and develop the necessary tools to work through their sensitivities.

Learning Music as Language:
For many, learning or playing a music piece solely by ear is a far-fetched and unattainable idea. You may even think “only musical prodigies would ever be able to do that.” Think again. Children have the ability to rely solely on their ears to learn and even memorize melodies and harmonies. They are not depending on their eyes to show them the next part of a song, they’re using sound – just like they did to learn their mother tongue.

It is essential for children in the early-development phase (2-8 years-old) to ignite their joy and passion for music so that they can apply it to other aspects of their lives. From learning new languages, to gaining social social skills, to simply listening to soothing sounds and rhythmic harmonies – music can only enrich the lives of children!

Features:
* A nature-themed, beautifully illustrated app for kids from the age of 5
* Ear-training exercises specifically designed for pre-instrument preparation
* 6 multi-level games to ensure progression
* A rainbow piano to play children’s favorite nursery rhymes
* A parental interaction with percussions using Apple Watch
* A fun “music creation” space for unlimited creativity
* 19 languages

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Available for Apple TV and Apple Watch
* Requires iOS 8.2 or later
* 80.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Easy Music 1.2 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. Contact us if you would like a promo code to test it.

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Founded by Montessori teachers who have had years of classroom experience with hundreds of children, Edoki Academy is determined to offer qualitative educational apps on iPad and iPhone. Their objective is to provide parents and teachers Montessori based apps to use at home or at school. The Montessori Method relies on building autonomy and self-confidence by letting children do by themselves and offering them self-correcting materials to manipulate and respecting their individual rhythm. Edoki Academy, Unique Montessori Apps. Copyright (C) 2016 Edoki Academy. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.