Piano and music production for teens and adults
Learn. Create.
Produce.
Play the songs you love by ear. Make your own tracks in Fender Studio. In person in Charlottesville, and online with a live call-in every week.
Ages 12 and up · After school, evenings and weekends · No sheet music required
Four ways in
Pick your sound.
Some students come to play the songs they hear in their heads. Some come to make the beat underneath. Most end up doing both. Start wherever you are.
Keys
Piano by Ear
Hear a song, find the key, play the chords. No sheet music, no years of scales first.
Beats and songs
Music Production
Turn the idea in your head into a finished track in Fender Studio.
The Online Hub
Learn anywhere. Call in weekly.
Step-by-step video lessons whenever you want, plus live group call-ins where you play, share your beats and get real feedback.
Charlottesville, VA
In Person
Private lessons and small groups in a studio built for making noise.
Ages 12 to 18
Teen Producer Lab
A weekly crew of six. Make beats, learn keys, premiere your track at Showcase Night.
How it works
From first lesson to first track.
No audition and no experience needed. Your teacher meets you where you are and builds the plan around the music you actually listen to.
Try a free lesson
Thirty minutes in the studio or on video. Play us something, or nothing at all. We'll find your starting point.
Get your path
Piano by ear, production, or both. You get a level, a weekly practice plan and songs picked for you.
Learn, call in, show off
Lessons every week, a live call-in when you're stuck, and a stage at Showcase Night when you're ready.
Why it works
Real skills. Real music. Real progress.
We teach the way working musicians actually learn: by listening, copying, experimenting and playing with other people.
Ear first
Learn chords and progressions as sounds you recognise, so you can pick out songs from the radio, from church or from your playlist.
Real software
Students produce in Fender Studio, a full professional DAW that also has a free version, so practice at home looks just like lessons.
Live every week
Group call-ins on the Online Hub keep you moving. Bring a question, a song or a half-finished beat.
Feedback on your work
Upload a playing video or a track and get notes from a teacher: what's working, and the one thing to fix next.
A crew to grow with
Small groups, a friendly community and monthly beat challenges. Musicians get better faster together.
Something to show for it
Every season ends with Showcase Night: students play live and premiere what they made for family and friends.
Showcase Night
Your track. Live. Loud.
Every season our students take the stage to play, perform and premiere the songs they produced.
For parents
The screen time you'll actually be glad about.
Your teen is already on a laptop. Here, it's how they learn to make something: rhythm, harmony, patience, and the confidence to play their own work in front of people.
- Small groups of no more than six, with a vetted teacher
- Sessions after school, in the evenings and on weekends, so it fits round school and sports
- A short progress note after every month
- Studio gear provided. A laptop and headphones are enough at home
- Adults welcome too. Plenty of parents end up taking lessons
Programs
Start online. Or come in.
Every program starts with a free trial lesson. Sessions run after school, in the evenings and on weekends.
Online Hub
Learn at home, anywhere.
Learn any time. Live calls on weekday evenings and weekends.
- Full lesson library, piano and production
- Four live call-ins a week
- Feedback on your uploads
Teen Producer Lab
Ages 12 to 18, in Charlottesville.
An extracurricular small group, 90 minutes a week after school or on weekends.
- Beats, keys and songwriting
- Online Hub included
- Showcase Night every season
Private Lessons
One to one, teens and adults.
45 minutes a week, in person or online, evenings or weekends.
- Piano by ear, production, or both
- Online Hub included
- Your songs, your pace
Your first lesson is on us.
Thirty minutes, in the studio or online. Leave with a song you can play or a beat you made, and a plan for what's next.
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