Tina and Tobi Music Notebook No.3

The Musical Success Program for Children!

Discover music playfully with Tina & Tobi: This guiding principle led to the first program for early musical education over thirty years ago and is more relevant than ever today. Children develop their musical and social skills best through play, training their hearing, sight, and rhythmic movement, and experiencing form and color, language, and sound.

Painting Music...

The notebooks provide space for painting to music and for graphic notation. The increasingly refined line systems form the basis for learning and age-appropriate practice of standard notation. The entire material is carefully and robustly made, especially for frequent use and handling by children’s hands.

Playfully Toward Success

• Singing and instrumental music making
• Improvisation
• Ear training through engagement with natural and environmental sounds, as well as old and contemporary music of all genres
• Introduction to graphic notation, standard notation, and basic musical concepts
• Movement exercises in free play or with play materials (e.g., hoops, games, balls)
• Painting and drawing as playful precursors to writing
• Speech and language development exercises involving everyday life situations (e.g., traffic, natural phenomena, home environment)

From Idea to Program

The Tina & Tobi author team developed a program from this idea that helps children naturally discover their musical abilities. Based on extensive practical experience, new pedagogical insights and developments are continuously integrated into the early education program. With Tina & Tobi, more and more children find their way to music, social skills, and a richer life.

What’s New?

• All content has been updated
• Extensive supplementary materials for flexible lesson planning
• Completely new illustrations
• Clear layout
• Lesson units adapted to 60 minutes
• Environmentally friendly materials preferred
• Texts follow the rules of the new spelling

What Remains?

• Children find their way to music through play
• Teachers continue to teach with the proven concept

More than one million children have taken their first steps into the world of music with Tina & Tobi. Today, 50,000 enthusiastic boys and girls learn and play annually at hundreds of music schools with the program of the Association of German Music Schools (VdM).