Music 1st Private Music Lessons & Music Therapy

A community based music school for children, adults, and families serious about music. A team committed to top notch teaching of the essential elements of music: fundamentals, practical music theory, and technique, all for the sake of great music, and all for an affordable tuition rate! We currently offer private lessons in almost anything you could need:

Piano, guitar, ukulele, bass guitar, voice, drums, violin, viola, trumpet, trombone, tuba, euphonium, and woodwinds (saxophone and flute) out of The Tuned In Academy studios and our west side satelite location at McKenzie Road Baptist Church.

We offer music therapy with our very own board-certified, licensed, music therapist.

We also offer remote/virtual lessons in piano, violin, viola, cello double bass, and drums anywhere with internet.

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Just $55 monthly! Just type “Music Mentor by Mobile” in the comments of your enrollment form.

Music Mentor by Mobile!

Music Mentor by Mobile Lessons with Millie (an East Coast bred in-demand bassist currently working in Portugal)!

  • Personalized assignments

  • Professional feedback

  • Questions answered anytime, right at your fingertips

  • Occasional “Live” group session/hangs

  • Perfect for busy adults, working professionals, music educators looking to up their game, high school students, those preparing for auditions/college programs!

  • No weekly commitments, just text your teacher as you are able/need to at any time with your questions, video of your progress on your assignment, etc.!

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Just $80 monthly for our weekly half hour Piano Lab! Just type "Piano Lab"in your enrollment form!

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Piano Lab with Caleb!

We are offering TWO brand new Piano Labs for Beginners with Caleb! Piano Lab is such a fun, affordable way to learn piano. With a caring, fun, and professional musician/educator in a small group environment (no more than six students), making friends, at a super affordable rate!
 
Tuition is just $80 monthly for the weekly half hour class!
 
Ages 7-9 Thursdays at 7PM
Adults Fridays at 7PM
 
Labs will start this March so enroll now!!
  • Weekly 30 minute engaging classes

  • Personalized, encouraging, professional direction

  • A fun and affordable option ($30 less per month than weekly private lessons)!

  • Learn in a group, make music together and make new friends!

  • Perfect for busy kids or adults, while practice at home is best for development, weekly classes with a group provides accountability and some built in growth from weekly experience

  • No contract, but we have labs that have been together for several years and have become good friends!

Music 1st currently meets inside of the studios of The Tuned In Academy and at our west sitde sattelite at McKenzie Road Baptist Church.

We offer private lessons in almost anything you would need, piano, guitar, bass, ukulele voice, violin, viola, woodwinds (sax and flute), and drums.

We offer music therapy with our very own board-certified, licensed, music therapist.

And we also offer virtual/remote lessons in piano, drums, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Music 1st does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, admission of students, selection of instructors, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services.

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Music 1st will eventually offer private lessons in all instruments so check back often!

Our Instructors

Music 1st Instructors are Professionals, Practitioners, and Involved Community Members in their areas of expertise. Click a picture to see more about each of our great team members!

  • Community Based

    At Music 1st we are all about community! That means that all of our instructors at the studio are local musicians, artists, and educators who live, work, and are actively engaged in their local northwest community. Community is what we live for and why we love music—because it brings people together.

  • Relational

    Music lessons are relational. Period. There’s no way around this and there shouldn’t be. The simple truth is, if you are going to be hanging out with someone on a weekly basis, learning music, which often can feel quite vulnerable, you’ve got to like the person you’re hanging with! They need to be good people! At Music 1st, we are deeply aware of this and it is a primary concern of ours to make sure that we hire, train, and develop a team of teachers that you will love and want to spend time with!

  • Committed to the Essentials

    The Fundamentals: Reading music notation, including the ability to read and interpret rhythms, intervals (melodic and harmonic) chord symbols, and theory are essential for learning to make great music. Ear training, chord-scale theory, scales, rudiments, and foundational technique are all important as well. If we don’t have these, we won’t be able to freely express ourselves and create the music that is already inside of us just waiting to come out.

  • Tradition:

    Not everyone has to play Bach, or the Beatles for that matter! But, we appreciate and are committed to learning from the rich tradition that music has to offer. From Bach to the Beatles, from John Coltrane to John Mayer, from Dizzy Gillespie to Gaga, from Bird to Blanchard, or from The Rolling Stones to The Roots!

  • Innovation:

    The greatest musical minds are always pushing the envelope harmonically, melodically, rhythmically, sonically, and thematically—and one of the reasons the fundamentals and tradition are so important, is so we have a foundation from which to springboard into the future with.

  • Music as Therapy and Self-Care:

    We live in a challenging world. It can be hard to be a kid. Adulting is all kinds of hard. We get that! Music can be incredibly therapeutic, and there are so many ways music can be used as a coping skill and a self-care treatment. We are here for that and happy to explore that with you.

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