KinderGuitar uses small group classes to reinforce music’s social component, create a sense of community, and enable fun music-related activities. Playing music with lesson partners offers many benefits to students. First, the intensity of a private lesson is rarely suitable for the youngest children and a child’s first experience with lessons is usually much more positive and fun with a peer or even, when possible, a friend. Second, the group dynamic enhances solo playing as students can learn from each other and benefit greatly from having a small and trusted audience when playing their solo pieces. Third, playing part music as a group enables students to learn from each other, to recognize strengths and weaknesses in their playing, and ultimately to develop life skills. Furthermore, children in the early stages of music learning find great satisfaction and joy in creating something larger in scope (through playing parts) than is possible with their own rudimentary skills alone. Simply put, playing in a group allows children to have fun, and fostering the enjoyment of music is one of KinderGuitar’s primary goals.