Inclusive, experiential online music learning.
Harmonica Orchestra is an online learning program designed to support general educators in bringing music into their classrooms in a fun, hands-on way, building strong foundational music concepts and establishing a love for making music.
Jason McInnes brings decades of teaching experience, and lessons learned from his relationships with some of folk music’s treasured performers and educators, to his step-based curriculum.
Everyone is in the band.
With a basis in folk traditions, Harmonica Orchestra creates space for students to feel confident playing their instrument, which in turn provides motivation to excel.
Watch these third grade students warm up and then join together for a performance of “Hot Cross Buns”.
Praise for Harmonica Orchestra
“From a general music perspective, my students come out of The Harmonica Orchestra program with a better innate sense of rhythm, breathing, musical phrasing, and overall joy of music.
The hands-on nature of this program, mixed with the breathing technique required to play the harmonica has given my students a foundation for moving forward with recorder and band in the years following his program.”
— Justin Wrzesinski, Coonley Elementary, Chicago Public Schools
“It’s been so fun ending our week on a musical note! It’s so easy to follow!”
— Lead teacher for Harmonica Orchestra
at Fairacres Elementary, Las Cruces, NM
