Music Will

Music Will (formerly Little Kids Rock) began in 1996 as an informal effort by David Wish to give his San Francisco Bay Area second-grade students a music enrichment program. Borrowing from friends and scouring area flea markets for instruments, he began offering free after-school guitar classes. The curriculum Dave developed captured the students’ interest because it had them playing the types of music they listen to and enabled them to improvise and compose freely around a basic network of ideas and skills within minutes of picking up the instrument.

What began as one teacher’s effort to bring music education to a few dozen public school children has catapulted into an international network serving more than half a million young people each year.

Music Will provides instructors with training, instruments, curriculum, and ongoing support to get their programs started and keep them rocking! For less than half the average cost of a single private lesson, our program gives instructors the skills and resources they need to ensure their kids receive the music education they deserve for an entire school year.