FAMILY MUSIC

People have asked us why or how do we do music as a family. Well, we love music. Brandon and I were both influenced by music early on. I sang with my dad at churches when I was younger. Brandon sang in chorus at school and church ensemble. We both had musical families that sang and played music. So, it comes natural that we would sing to or with our kids. From an early age Sterling has shown major interest in music, and her sisters have now followed suit. We have never forced them to take lessons or anything like that. It's actually the opposite. We have a piano and guitars in our home, and Brandon and I play them pretty regularly. Here recently the two oldest have been asking both of us to show them whatever we can. We are both amazed at how quickly they have picked up on what we have shown or what they then come up with on their own. 

Sterling and Elle have both shown interest in learning to hear and sing harmony now. So, I have been working with them for the past few months. This past month we focused on one specific song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and decided to record it and share here. This concept is still a little bit more for Elle to catch on than for Sterling (I mean she is 5), but she is hearing and picking out notes which is huge. So this one is just Sterling and I. It took quite a few takes to get it without stopping (which would explain why we may look a little less enthusiastic than we would have in some of the earlier tries), but nonetheless Sterling did great for this being her first song to learn harmony all the way through. Music has been a bonding tool for us since our kids have been babies, and even now we are so thankful to have a common interest with them. We hope to teach them all we can and then some. 

Somewhere over the rainbow from waldenfamily on Vimeo.

We had fun doing this video and hope to do more as well, with all of them at some point. But this was the beginning. Hope you enjoy the video!