About Us

• Better Than Retail
Music lessons is not an afterthought to drive more visits and therefore encourage more retail sales of instruments and supplies. Music lessons is our single passion.
 The Most Qualified Teachers
Our number one priority in finding the right teachers to hire is that they have really fabulous, likable, positive personalities that shine with pride and joy in what they have to offer to their students and the world of music. We also work hard to make sure we treat these teachers well because they’re so unique in what they do we consider them irreplaceable, and we anticipate that you will feel the same. We’re so proud our of teachers’ credentials. Not only are our teachers very wonderful likable people, but they’re also very experienced and very well educated. Most of our teachers have masters degrees in music and all have bachelor’s degrees in music and graduated with high recognition. When you’re comparing different locations to take private music lessons, please ask about education. There are no standards for who can teach music lessons and not all teachers out there are degreed. It is important that you or your child’s teacher is a master at the craft at which they teach. Our teachers come with years of teaching experience and are established performers, performing regularly throughout the NJ/NY region. Really and truly, our greatest pride comes from the great teachers we have teaching in our school. How Young Can A Student Be? We start private music instruction for children as young as age 3.5, which is hard to find elsewhere. Violinists may enroll in the Suzuki Violin program starting at age 3.5, piano starting around age 5, most other instruments between 5-9 years old depending on how well the instrument modifies to their body size. How Old Can A Student Be? Adult students also love us, and we love adult students! While adjusting to returning to the role of student can be a challenge, it really is never too late. We have so many adult students, beginners and experienced alike, that we often have recitals for adult students. All it takes is a commitment to practice daily. Why take private lessons my public school offers lessons for free? If your school offers music lessons, that is a lot to be grateful for. As public music programs in New Jersey seem to be getting cut due to budget constraints, it becoming more and more rare. However, even in schools where instrumental or vocal lessons are available, individual instruction is rare or limited. Much of their lesson time is done alongside several other students. This can lead to difficulty maintaining interest in the instrument, or competing for first chair. Proper technique tends to suffer for lack of personal attention. Incorrect technique can be difficult to unlearn later on. Providing your child with private lessons will challenge your child to excel and compete, and the satisfaction of the rewards of such discipline are so significant that you'll have a hard time not noticing a boost in confidence spilling over into all of their other school subjects. Even if you can only bring them for private lessons over the summer to keep them from getting rusty during school recess, you will find that they will spend less time in the fall and winter catching up to being as good at their instrument as they were at the end of the last school year. Most students who start with us for that reason end up staying with us after the school year has started. All we need is a chance to put on display what a difference private lessons can make. Why not take Skype or online pre-recorded video lessons instead? Facetime and Skype are great tools to keep in touch with people we can’t be with in person otherwise, but usually when the option to communicate in person is there we seldom do video chat, for several reasons. Video lag time impairs natural communication. The audio can be of such low quality that it is difficult to tell sometimes if a student is out of tune or it is just distortion in the audio connection. Also, think of a guitar lesson. A teacher needs to have a good view to see if they’re using good general posture, but they also need to see their finger positions to correct a chord that doesn’t sound quite right. There is no way to position the camera to accomplish all this, and constantly adjusting the position takes away from valuable lesson time. On the other hand, pre-recorded teachers can’t make any corrections at all. This limits the extent the pre-recorded lessons can take them to, and they may find when they ultimately take private lessons that they’ve been teaching themselves incorrectly which can be difficult habit to unlearn.