Musical toddler - what next?

This may sound a bit bonkers but I think youngsters' tap dance is great for children who are musical but too young for an instrument. Lots of clapping & tapping rhythms, gives them great experience of focussing on, feeling & responding to the beat.

I've come 360 degrees on this - I used to think it was pointless until they had the coordination to do a shuffle.

Hi OP. I have two sons (17 and 19 now) who are both very musical and were pretty musical as toddlers. The oldest is studying for a music degree, plays drums and makes a lot of electronic music. The younger is a sax player and (in normal times!), plays in several different bands. Currently trying to decide if he does a music degree. The oldest, particularly, showed an aptitude for drumming from a very early age. He spent a lot of time wrecking furniture by drumming on it (mostly perfectly in time) and then moved onto toy drum kits and various pots and pans. He and my other son had every kind of toy instrument imaginable and loved music. I did a few musical baby groups with them and always had lots of music on at home like you do. Both played recorder and ocarina at school and then did individual instrument lessons as soon as they were available at school (year 4 I think), and did choir in primary school and another one outside of school. We've just basically encouraged them as much as we can, letting them try everything, doing all the driving, etc, going to all the concerts, but I did make school band compulsory for them, even when it wasn't that great as I think playing in a group is really important. I think if you carry on the way you are, ds will be fine.