How the Nuryl App Works
After logging in to the app after your subscription purchase, it will download one playlist. The point is to listen to this playlist with your child for one month so they can get familiar with the complex music and unexpected changes, as well as become familiar with the different keys. And no, it does not need to be in sequence. Just the exposure to the songs is enough. Then, the next month, you will receive a new playlist that you will use for a month. If a user starts using the playlists when their child is prenatal, then they will be able to listen to all 29 playlists by the time they are age 2 (our playlists do go up to month 72 just in case a user wants to go further). Be aware that all the playlists are not listed, and due to the space required to store them, they are not all downloaded to your device… just one month at a time.
If you do not have a subscription and are just trying the app, you will still get one playlist that you can use with your child and the concept is the same. Listen to these songs in repetition for a month to get your child familiar with the music. Then decide if you want to go further with a paid subscription.
What Age Group is Nuryl Designed for?
The Nuryl curriculum is mainly designed for all children ages 5-months prenatal up to 2 years old but your child can use it up to age 6. Your baby’s first two years are a critical time of heightened brain plasticity (the ability to learn through experience). New experiences create a neural scaffold of connections upon which future learning is built. The more a connection is stimulated, the stronger it becomes, and the stronger the foundation will be. During the first few years of life, critical windows for learning open and shut. At Nuryl, we emphasize exposing your child to our playlists during these critical times. While prenatal to 2yo is the most intense learning period, there are other windows of learning after the age of 2 until age 6 as well that your child can take advantage of and we recommend starting children over 2 as soon as possible.
How should I listen while I am pregnant?
For our prenatal users, we recommend either using headphones on the mothers belly or using an external speaker like your phone or a Bluetooth speaker. You should use the headphones and speakers at a medium to low volume so as not to startle your baby, and a good example of this volume might be conversational level. Amniotic fluid is a great conductor of sound so less is more in this case.
How do I listen with my baby? (Infant)
We do not recommend using in ear headphones as it is very easy to turn them up to damaging volume levels for your child. If you are to use headphones, there are a few models out there designed for children that don’t let the volume get above a certain level and we strongly recommend these. Also, some devices have a volume-limit feature under the audio settings that allows you to set a maximum threshold for your child, say like 75%. We recommend this as well if you are going to use headphones with your child, but again, we do not recommend it. If you want to read up on this, here is a link… http://www.howtogeek.com/222942/htg-explains-why-your-kids-should-be-using-volume-limiting-headphones/
When should I use the app with my child?
There is no specific time of the day that is best to use the app with your child although you do want them to be alert and not tired. Certainly right before a nap or while they are sleeping would not be good times of course because their brains need to be receptive enough to pay attention to what they are listening to. Just as you wouldn’t send your child to school at their bedtime, Nuryl is a curriculum as well and your child needs to be awake and alert for learning. We also don’t suggest playing it while your child sleeps as we don’t want your child to make the subconscious association with the music and nap time.
Can I Use My Nuryl Account on Multiple Devices?
- Of course! We know there are times when individual parents, family members, or nannys will be using Nuryl and you need it on multiple phones. Just download the app on the devices of your choice, and use the same login for each.
How Do I Get New Music?
When you subscribe to the Nuryl curriculum, you will initially receive a playlist that corresponds to your child’s date of birth (DOB). Each consecutive month, you will receive a new playlist that will automatically download onto your device on the day listen in your DOB. For example, if the DOB in your account is 2/15/22, then every month on the 15th a new playlist will download. These new playlists allow your child to be exposed to many different pieces of High-Information music over the course of their subscription and will help keep the curriculum fresh.
What should I be doing while my child is listening to the Nuryl music?
We recommend that you remain interactive with your child by holding, rocking, or dancing them to the rhythm of the music. Even gently moving their arms to the beat will help stimulate learning and activate the social part of their brain. For prenatal children, it might seem weird to play music to a child that isn’t born yet but at month 5, they do have hearing and are able to be comforted by the music. Again, the idea is to get your child used to hearing this highly complex music and repetition is the key! Watch our How-To video for a complete guide on how you should be using Nuryl with your baby.
Can Nuryl Help Children with Special Needs?
The Nuryl curriculum is not designed as a therapeutic approach, though combination therapies that use music are common for children with developmental issues. There have been many research studies showing promising and positive results, although these have primarily been in teenagers and adults. Such studies have incorporated musical therapy into rehabilitation programs aimed at stimulating multiple regions of the brain- areas involved in motor control/coordination, cognition, language, and emotional state.
Musical therapy has also been used with preterm infants and research suggests that appropriately designed musical interventions may improve upon a newborn’s cardiac rhythms, feeding, and overall alertness. We encourage parents to talk with their doctors about incorporating music therapy into their child’s therapies at home and later at school. One of the wonderful things about appropriately designed music-based therapies is a potentially positive outcome with relatively no/low risks. An infant’s brain is highly plastic, and able to change and heal in a way an adult brain simply can not, so now is the time to try whatever therapies you can, including Nuryl.
Can the Nuryl curriculum be used to help adults? Will I benefit as well?
The Nuryl curriculum was designed specifically to take advantage of the windows of brain plasticity that occur in children between the ages of 0-2yo although there are other ones that occur between 2-6 that can be beneficial as well. Once a child reaches 6 year old, these specific windows of learning close never to be opened again which is why we only support the use of the Nuryl curriculum with children ages 0-6. While we don’t suggest that Nuryl will help in any way for adults, we also don’t discourage it and would love to hear your progress if you decide to follow the curriculum for yourself.
The music sounds strange to me.
High-Information music is defined as “music tonally rich with highly complex harmonies that move rapidly into unexpected places by incorporating unusual melodic structures”. Some of this music certainly sounds different and while we are aware that some users love this style, we know that others may not. We want you to understand that while some of it may sound strange, dark and dissonant, it is these changes and melodies that stimulate your child’s brain functioning and help it to grow new neural connections. From 5 months prenatal to 2 years of age is the time when your child is learning the most and we specifically designed the entire Nuryl curriculum to take advantage of these learning windows.
What music do the playlists consist of?
The music in these playlists consists of what we call “High Information Music”, which is music tonally rich with highly complex harmonies that move rapidly into unexpected places by incorporating unusual melodic structures. All of the music in our playlists was selected with this thought in mind and is the same music that our CEO Rick Beato used to play to his son Dylan as a baby. Interspersed through all 29 playlists is proprietary music that you will not find anywhere else, as well as mini music lessons that will get your child used to hearing the different keys, scales, and modes with spoken word mixed in.
How much of the playlist do I need to play each day?
At the minimum, we recommend 30 minutes of listening time a day. However, while each playlist was originally meant to be played in it’s entirety at least once a day, you are of course welcome to play it longer because the more exposure your child has, the more familiar they will become with recognizing these high-information melodies and chord changes. These pieces are highly complex and layered and can take years to get completely familiar with. Of course, we understand that life gets busy and you may not have the time each day to play the entire playlist in full but every bit of exposure helps and you should try to make your routine last the full playlist running time if you can. You can even break it up into smaller 20-minute sessions. Just this daily exposure to the Nuryl music may help stimulate your child’s brain and boost their cognition and learning capabilities. Repetition is very important!
I have multiple children so how can I have different playlists for each child of a different ages?
If you want to track the listening time of each child individually and for each to have their own playlist, you currently need to have each one registered with a different email address and a separate subscription. You can do this at www.nuryl.com. Once you have the Nuryl app installed on your device, log in using the different email and passwords for each child, and a different playlist will be downloaded and stored on your device. Just make sure to use the correct playlist for each child as the app also records their daily/monthly/yearly usage. Of course, it is not necessary for each child to have their own playlist as they can share and no one playlist is more beneficial than another as each one is composed solely of High-Information music.
Optimizing your Apple Experience
-The Nuryl app is not officially supported on Iphone, Ipod, and Ipads below OS version 10. You may install the app and use it but we cannot guarantee optimal performance.
-Some IOS version 10 devices may have issues running the Nuryl app with the current operating system and if you are experiencing random crashing, please close all other apps and keep the Nuryl app in the foreground during use.
-Before downloading the current playlist, make sure you are on an efficient WiFi network. Also, be sure to let the entire playlist download before closing the Nuryl app or working on another app.
-If you are experiencing functionality issues, try upgrading to the most recent iOS (operating system) for your device.
-Closing all other apps will help create a better performance for any app on your device. You can do this by double-pressing the Home button which will fan out all of your open applications. Then swipe up on the applications you would like to close.
-If you find that you are still having issues, we recommend you delete and then re-install the app.
-Please note that if the Nuryl app is in the foreground during use, the device lock mechanism will be temporarily bypassed.
-If you need further help, please contact [email protected].
Optimizing your Android Experience
-We do not officially support android operating systems below 5.0. You can still install and use the app but we cannot guarantee optimal performance.
-Before downloading the current playlist, make sure you are on an efficient WiFi network. Also, be sure to let the entire playlist download before closing the Nuryl app or working on another app.
-If you are having issues downloading the Nuryl app, you should check to see that it will allow 3rd-party downloads because sometime this may be turned off. This is usually found in your settings area although each device may be different. Refer to your user manual if necessary.
-Clearing your cache can also help improve performance of any app on your device. First, navigate to Settings on your device. Go to Applications and then Applications Manager. Find the ALL tab. Scroll down to find the app that is having issues and tap on it. Then you should see 2 options. Clear Data and Clear Cache. Clear Cache is the option you should start with. It will get rid of saved data that allows apps to load a little quicker when you launch them. Clearing it means the app will open a little slower but your main problem might well be solved. Make sure that you are only clearing the Cache and not Data, as this will erase the current playlist from your device.
-If you find that you are still having issues, we recommend you delete and then re-install the app.
-If you need further help, please contact [email protected].
Can I Use Sonos or Apple TV to Play the Nuryl Music?
So as of now, we have no plans on incorporating our app with the Sonos system or Apple TV as there isn’t a huge demand for it. Since the time we have been in business, we have only had a few requests for this, and to integrate our app with the Sonos system, their company requires us to pay a certain fee per year that we cannot at this time justify due to the demand. We expect that as our user base grows, we will possibly branch out to that avenue and others like it. You can however still use a bluetooth speaker like Google Home or Amazon Echo with the Nuryl app if that works for you. We apologize for this inconvenience but hope you understand.
How much does Nuryl cost?
Nuryl offers a monthly subscription-based service that continues month-to-month and can be canceled at any time.
Go HERE to visit our detailed pricing page.
Can I use the same username and password for the web and mobile app?
Yes!
If you sign-up on the web, you can download the app and log in with the same username and password. And if you enroll on the app you can use the same username and password on the web.