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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, cello, trumpet, trombone, tuba, euphonium, and woodwinds (saxophone, flute, clarinet, and oboe) out of The Tuned In Academy studios and our west side satellite 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.
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.!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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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