Instruments: • Voice • Piano • Guitar • Bass • Drums
All Styles welcome: • Pop • Rock • Broadway • Jazz • Film/Video Game • Classical
All of our teachers are professional musicians with the ability and knowledge to teach all levels and ages. We enjoy the variety of different types of students, styles and challenges. Since the pandemic, even more adults have decided to add music lessons to their life.
About adult lessons
This is your lesson! We create a customized lesson plan that is based on your goals and pace. There are many paths through learning musics so we make sure that we are focusing on the skills and knowledge relevant to what you want to do with music. Whether you want to play an instrument, sing, play and sing together, write songs or improvise. Whatever it is you are interested in doing, we can help.
Benefits of music lessons
- Continued Learning throughout life helps keep your brain active and healthy
- Music provides a healthy outlet for processing emotions.
- Participating in things that are fulfilling creates a healthy life balance
- Music is communication at a higher level and helps connect with others.
- Music lessons can be an opportunity to step away from the pressures of life for a little bit every week. This can help reset to help you come back to whatever challenges you are facing fresh.
What’s Stopping you from starting lessons?
These are some of the common fears holding people back that we hear and our response to them:
It feels too late for me to learn at this age.
Adults of any age are capable of learning. Learning new things is great for keeping the brain healthy. No one kind of learner has all the advantages. Some things come easier to kids like developing dexterity, while other things such as reading and theory tend to come easier to adults. Music itself combines many different components such as rhythm, musicality, phrasing, reading, physical dexterity, ear skills etc. No one is a natural at all of them. The things that are your strengths help determine your unique voice in music.
I learned as a kid but I don’t remember anything.
Certain things like coordination definitely seem easier for adults that took lessons as a child even if they feel like they don’t remember anything. It’s often the links to access information that is lost; not the information itself. It’s always great to go over things as a whole to make sure we fill in any missing pieces of the puzzle.
I’m afraid I can’t commit to regular lessons.
Although we do need a financial commitment to regular lessons in order to be a business in the neighborhood, there is some flexibility that we can provide. If you know you have some weeks where you can’t do a lesson, we are happy to either schedule a makeup or make another lesson longer to make up the time.
Can I do lessons every other week?
We don’t offer this as we have found it isn’t very good for students’ continuity as well as making scheduling more difficult. A weekly lesson revisits new skills and information to help solidify them. It also keeps students inspired and gives natural motivation after the lesson to go home and do music! However, if you have something come up or a month where you are traveling a lot, we are flexible about making up the time.
I am afraid I can’t commit to practice expectations.
We don’t have a set expectation of what you have to do, nor do we make you feel guilty about how much or little you practice. Adults have many responsibilities and other commitments. Even if what you can do is show up every week and fully engage and enjoy being here, there is a benefit to having music in your life and you will make progress. Keeping at something regularly over time is a more realistic way to grow skills rather than making aggressive goals that can’t be kept up long-term.
What if I’m not good at this?
Learning can feel vulnerable but it is also really good for us.. Being new at something means not being good at it immediately. Music is a subject where there are always more skills to develop and new things to learn. It’s part of what keeps it endlessly fascinating. It’s important to take time to appreciate where ever you are in the journey. Be proud of your progress as well as looking forward to what you want to learn.
What if I don’t have any musical ability?
Most people have the capability to be musical especially if there is a desire to do it. The skills of music are teachable and not just innate.
How long will it take for me to get to a satisfying level?
Although this can depend on factors specific to you, getting to the level it takes to feel satisfying is totally achievable and not far off in the future. Expect that you should be working on things you are excited about right away even if we need to simplify a bit in the beginning.
What is the right length of lesson for an adult?
That really depends on you! Forty five minutes is usually the sweet spot for adults of not feeling too short but also not too long. However, if a half hour is what you can commit to financially, we make that work. Ultimately, the benefit of having music in your life is more important than how long your lesson is.
What if I don’t really know what I want to do within music?
Most people have something that is bringing them to music even if they can’t articulate it yet. We love being on the journey of exploration with you until you find the path through music that is the most fulfilling for you.
I’ve been told I’m tone deaf. Can I learn music?
Ear skills come naturally to some people but they are a skill that can be taught and just one component of music.
I really enjoy singing but I don’t sound good. Is it possible to learn and sound different than I do now?
Yes, it is. Singing is the one instrument that everyone comes to with habits already. Pitch, enunciation, breath and where things resonate all can affect the way you sound. Learning how to navigate the different parts of your voice and controlling these components can uncover the voice underneath.