At the birth of her own first child, she began to develop her own music programme of timetabled singing, rhyming and rhythm work. After a year of Twinkle, twinkle little star, among many others, with the baby held close to the mother's body, Young will withdraw one note from the melody, then another and, lo and behold, the child begins to vocalise in perfect pitch and rhythm. She gleefully plays a video in which Robert, one year-old, is started off on Eine kleine Nachtmusik, and is soon happily crowing his way through every modulation, ornament and developmental passage in sight. Young believes that parents' musical expectations are unusually low in Britain. But this fact, and its implications, are not widely known.
Every baby is musical.
Young started her weekly classes in response to requests from friends. The newborn baby classes are as much for the benefit of the often isolated mother. At 12 months, she brings in more action and movement, staring circle dances and linking melody and rhythm into the naming of the parts of the body. All 'instruction' is sung. You can give a rating to this scheme overall.