What is Soundbops?

Soundbops is a specially designed musical instrument and a complete learning system designed to introduce children from the age of 3 and up to reading, playing and enjoying music.

Musical Building Blocks

Bops are at the heart of Soundbops. They are the building blocks of music. Each colourful bop represents a different note. Perfectly sized for small hands, bops fit neatly onto the Soundbops board. Build the notes you need for your song, then play them by pushing the blue buttons. It's child's play!

Anatomy of the Instrument

The Soundbops musical instrument is the innovation that makes learning music easy and fun. The high tech board allows notes to be placed, stacked and played. We believe that free, creative play is as important as structured learning, so how the board is set out and how it sounds are down to the player's choice. And, of course, what the player plays!

The Unique Soundbops Notation

The Soundbops music course is delivered in monthly books, full of songs using our unique notation system, and lessons designed by educational experts to teach how to read and play music in advancing stages.


We have developed four stages to take children from the age of 3 and up through carefully measured steps towards reading full music over an expertly-designed course that lasts 4 terms, and eager and ready to move onto a traditional instrument.

Learning to read music

Colour and Bops

Colour and bops
The ideal introduction to reading music. Clear notation with easy-to-follow coloured circles that echo the bops. 

The First Stave

The First Stave

A big step up. Introducing the treble clef and notes on the stave, but still using the coloured circles.

Treble and Bass

Treble and Bass
With a whole extra octave, we need bass and treble clefs. Introducing rhythm, beats and longer notes.

Full Notation

Full Notation
We're ready for full musical notation (with colours). We know about different types of note and time signatures. We're reading music.

The Books

With our songbooks, your child will gradually learn the skills required to play traditional sheet music notation. Delivered to your door on a monthly basis, these books feature sheet music for a number of popular songs following our unique music notation.The Soundbops notation is expertly designed to allow children to take incremental steps from reading single musical notes on a simple line, to learning about the different stave positions of musical notes on the treble and bass clefs, to developing early understandings of rhythm, melody, harmony and accompaniments, before finally combining all they have learned in order to play full music notation. From book 1 onwards, your child will develop skills to take them from being a complete musical beginner to being a skilled mini musician faster and easier than traditional musical instrument lessons.

The Books

With the Starter Pack, you get the first Soundbops book free, and an exclusive offer on future books. We'll show you how to subscribe to the course in your pack. Every month, your child will receive a new book full of tunes, lessons and fun (with some great surprise gifts!) and support material and videos on the Soundbops app. Over time, these will build up into a complete music course and a collection of 24 valuable resources.

The Soundbops books: a complete music course month by month

Stack to Make Chords

What is a chord? We're glad you asked. 

"Any simultaneous combination of notes, usually not fewer than three. The use of chords is the basic foundation of harmony."

[Oxford Dictionary of Music]


With Soundbops, it's simple to build and play chords, and easy for young minds to understand what they are and how they work.

Building a chord

How to build a chord
One bop
Two bops
And three for a chord!
"I find it fantastic that you can build with the bops to create a chord. That is such a complex concept and seeing it in block format makes it so much simpler to grasp."

Anna Elliot, Primary School Teacher

Unique Instrument Sounds

We didn't think standard instrument sounds were good enough for Soundbops. So we found the best Sound Designer to create our own.

We think they sound pretty good. And we've already formed a Soundbops band. We'd love to hear from you if you have too - email us at hello@soundbops.com.

The Sweetest Sounds

Piano
Synthesiser
Guitar
Bass
Drum
Organ
Trumpet
Saxophone
Violin
Xylophone

Give the gift of music.

The Starter Pack contains the revolutionary Soundbops instrument and its case plus a free book, and an exclusive offer on future books - all for only £119.99

Order now to ensure you'll get your Soundbops in time for Christmas.

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