Music Will

Music Will, formerly Little Kids Rock, brings modern music into the classroom through trained educators and free instruments. Their approach is inclusive, immersive, student-centered, and fun, allowing the kids to learn the music they know and love.  Music Will introduced their “Modern Band Program” in 2011, which gives students (K-12) access to an engaging, relevant, and fun music education program. The music programs are as diverse as the students they serve.  Modern Band classes feature guitar, bass, keyboard, drums, vocals, technology, and computers. Heavy emphasis is put on composition, improvisation, and recording. Kids regularly get to record their own music and even make their own rock videos. As the nation’s leading nonprofit provider of free music instruction and instruments to public schools, Music Will has served 1,200,000 students, donated over 100,000 instruments, supported over 6,000 schools, and reached 928 school districts. 

Music Will provides teacher training workshops as well as musical instruments to start up the program for teachers who complete their full day training. The program is already thriving in some of the nation’s largest public school systems including the New York City Department of Education, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Dallas Independent School District, and the Chicago Public.  In fact, several colleges and universities that train music teachers are now offering their students methods courses that focus in part or entirely on Modern Band.