The Virtual Music Teacher: Banding together in Early Childhood Music Education project is a suite of games to promote music participation and social play for children of all abilities. Children with disabilities are less likely to take part in music learning than their typically developing peers. Music-making training, especially in the preschool years, has many social, emotional, cognitive and physical benefits for children with and without disabilities. Young children with disabilities are unable to benefit from music lessons because of scheduling, resource, and accessibility barriers in traditional teacher-led programs. A “virtual music teacher” that can engage young children with disabilities in early music learning at home may overcome some of these barriers. To that end, we are developing a music application that intelligently responds to children’s play with real-life musical instruments (e.g. maracas) and guides them in music learning. New ways to track a child’s music play, encourage learning and group play, and adapt musical tasks to diverse physical abilities will be created. This system will put music learning and its benefits within reach of thousands of young children with and without disabilities.