14 free slots left this month

One free lesson. A real teacher, a real instrument, forty-five minutes.

Not a tour of the building and not a sales meeting with a piano in the corner. You play something in the first ten minutes, whether you have touched an instrument before or not.

45 minutes Instrument provided Ages 6 to 70 No card, no deposit

Book my free lesson See this week's slots

Roughly six in ten trial students enrol. The other four leave with the practice sheet from the lesson and nobody rings them afterwards — a free lesson people dread booking is not a free lesson.

Interior of a music school teaching studio during a lesson

1 in 1 lessons, never a group trial

Pick one, change later

Six instruments to try

Choose whichever you are curious about. If it turns out to be the wrong one, your second trial lesson on a different instrument is also free — that happens about once a week and it is fine.

Pianofrom age 6

Guitarfrom age 8

Voicefrom age 10

Drumsfrom age 7

Violinfrom age 6

Ukulelefrom age 5

This week

Free trial slots, updated Monday

Trial lessons run outside the busy teaching hours, which is why the times look unusual. Pick one and we confirm it by message within the hour.

Tuesday · teaching rooms 1 and 3

5 of 8 slots open

14:00Piano · Nadia

15:00Taken

16:00Guitar · Bram

17:00Voice · Ilse

18:00Taken

19:00Drums · Kofi

19:45Taken

20:30Piano · Nadia

Minute by minute

What happens in the forty-five minutes

Written out because the biggest reason people do not book a free lesson is not knowing what will be asked of them.

0–5 min

Nothing is tested

No audition, no scales, no questions about whether you are musical. The teacher asks what music you actually listen to, and that answer decides the rest of the lesson.

5–25 min

You play something

A real phrase from a real song, at whatever speed works. Complete beginners get there too — the arrangement is simplified until it is playable, not until it is easy to talk about.

25–40 min

The thing you got wrong

One habit is corrected properly — a hand position, a breath, a stick grip. This is the part that shows you what a lesson actually feels like, and it is why the trial is not a demonstration.

40–45 min

A sheet to take home

What you played, what to practise, and how long it should take. Yours whether you enrol or not, and about a third of trial students use it and never come back — that is a fine outcome.

Who teaches

Eleven teachers, all working musicians

Everyone here still performs or records. Trial lessons are taught by the person who would teach you afterwards — you never meet a "trial teacher" and get someone else at lesson two.

Nadia FarkasPiano · 12 years teachingClassical and film scores

Portrait of guitar teacher Bram de Vries

Bram de VriesGuitar & ukulele · 9 yearsFingerstyle and pop

Ilse AndersenVoice · 15 yearsMusical theatre and choir

Kofi MensahDrums · 8 yearsSession player, funk and afrobeat

If you want to carry on

What it costs after the free lesson

Printed here rather than saved for the end of the trial, because a price revealed after a nice experience feels like a trap even when it is fair.

Pay as you go

$34

per 45-minute lesson

Book week by week, no commitment
Cancel a lesson 24 hours ahead, free
Instrument available in the room

Start here

Most students

Termly, weekly lesson

$29

per lesson · 12-week term

Same teacher, same slot each week
Two catch-up lessons included per term
Free practice room booking, one hour a week
End-of-term concert, optional and unpushed

Ask about a term

Family, two or more

$25

per lesson, per person

Any two people in one household
Back-to-back slots so one trip covers both
Different instruments and teachers are fine

Ask about family rates

No registration fee, no annual fee, and no minimum number of terms. If you stop, you stop — the only thing we ask is a week's notice so the slot goes to someone on the waiting list.

From trial students

Including two who did not enrol

★★★★★

"My daughter played four bars of a song she actually likes within twenty minutes. She had refused three other schools because they started with a theory book."

Yuliana CostaParent · enrolled, piano

★★★★★

"I am 61 and expected to be gently laughed at. I got a sheet with three exercises and a note saying which one to do first. I practise from it at home and never signed up."

Portrait of trial student Roland Baumann

Roland BaumannTrial student · did not enrol

★★★★☆

"Four stars because the Saturday slots vanish fast. The lesson itself was the first time anyone explained why my wrist hurt after ten minutes of playing."

Aiko TanakaTrial student · enrolled, guitar

Before you book

Six things people ask

No. Every room has the instrument in it, including drums and a full-size piano. Bring your own if you have one and want it checked over — teachers will set up a guitar or restring it during the trial at no cost.

Free, no card taken, no deposit, and you keep the practice sheet. The catch, such as it is: about six in ten people enrol afterwards, and that is what pays for the teacher's forty-five minutes. If you are not one of them, nobody phones you.

Always, for any age. Every room has a window onto the corridor as well, and some children play better when the parent watches from there instead. Teachers hold current background checks and the certificates are at reception.

Just over half of our students are adults, and the evening trial slots exist for that reason. The lesson has no age-appropriate material and no children's repertoire — you play music you chose, from the first lesson.

Message us any time before the slot and it goes to the next person on the list, no penalty and you can rebook. Two no-shows without a message and we stop offering trial slots to that number — they are genuinely limited and someone else wanted it.

Yes, one more free trial on a different instrument. It happens about once a week, usually when someone books guitar and discovers they wanted drums. A third is charged at the pay-as-you-go rate.