Raccoon Backpack

Introduction: Raccoon Backpack is a music lesson studio located in Seattle, Washington. Created by teaching artist Tyler Merrill-Cranston, the studio seeks to spread the joy of making music through fun, creative, and patient music lessons. Curriculum is designed with beginner students and early childhood learners especially in mind. The studio is named after its early childhood music class in which children play instruments from their musical backpacks along to stories that Tyler and Remi the Raccoon tell about their many adventures into the forest. ​ Tyler also teaches beginner-intermediate lessons on the guitar and ukulele. He employs emergent curriculum to follow and expand the musical interests of his students. He is especially interested in helping students learn to play the music they love.