Homeschool
Music lessons onlinePrivate violin, voice and cello lessons for homeschool families — taught one-on-one over Google Meet, for students 11 and up and adults.
No drive, no waiting room, published rates, and a free first lesson. If your family needs a written record of what a student has studied, there is one, and it costs nothing.
Violin, voice and cello
Violin lessons are open now and have been the heart of the studio from the start — Suzuki-based technique shaped around the student rather than a fixed curriculum, for complete beginners as readily as for players coming back after years away.
Voice lessons are open too, taught by jazz vocalist Melanie Scholtz. They run the same way: one-on-one, live over video, for students 11 and up and adults at any level, beginners included. Read about Melanie and the voice lessons.
Cello has a teacher confirmed and lessons open soon. There is a cello list to join in the meantime, and families on it hear about times before anything is announced.
Every lesson, whatever the instrument, is private and live. Nobody is watching a recording, and nobody is sharing a slot with three other students.
It fits the week you already have
The strongest argument for online lessons in a homeschool family is the plainest one: the drive disappears. A 30-minute lesson costs you 30 minutes, not 30 minutes plus two car trips and the half hour either side that never quite gets used for anything. Over a school year that is a startling number of hours handed back.
The second is timing. Most private studios are jammed between 3pm and 8pm, because that is when everybody else is free. Homeschool families are not everybody else, and the studio has genuine daytime slots — morning, early afternoon, the gap after lunch. A lesson can sit where your week actually has room, including either side of a co-op day.
It also travels. Grandparents' house, a co-op building with decent wifi, the kitchen table in a different state — as long as there is a connection and somewhere to stand up straight, the lesson happens. Families who move mid-year, or who are on the road for part of it, do not have to start over with a new teacher.
What lessons cost
Published, per lesson, the same for everyone. You and the teacher settle on the right length together, and it can change as a student grows.
30 Minutes
$45 / lesson
45 Minutes
$65 / lesson
60 Minutes
$85 / lesson
The first 30-minute lesson is free — a real lesson, not a sales call, with no card taken up front and no obligation to continue. If it isn't a fit, that is a perfectly good outcome and nobody will chase you about it. Full payment and cancellation terms are on the studio policies page.
Progress you can put in a folder
Every family who wants one gets a free quarterly progress report: one page per season setting out what the student worked on, what measurably improved — intonation, breath, bow control, reading, rhythm — and what the next quarter is aimed at. It is written by the teacher who taught the lessons, not generated from a checkbox.
Said plainly: this exists because homeschool families are often the ones who need records. If you report to an umbrella school, or you sit a portfolio review, or you simply keep your own year-by-year file, the quarterly report is the music entry and it costs nothing. Ask for it whenever you like, and stop it whenever you like.
Music and a fine-arts requirement
In many places, private music study is the kind of thing that can count toward a fine-arts or elective requirement, and families here do use it that way. But the rules are not the same everywhere: they are set by your state and, if you are enrolled with one, by your umbrella or cover school, and they differ on hours, on documentation, and on whether an outside teacher qualifies at all.
So please check your own state's requirements and your umbrella's policy before you count on it — this studio can't tell you what will satisfy them. What it can do is give you the paperwork side: lesson dates, lesson lengths, and a written quarterly report describing the work. If your reviewer wants something in a particular shape, ask and it will be written that way.
Take the printables, student or not
There is a library of free printable practice tools — note-naming worksheets, staff and symbol references, violin and bow anatomy posters, practice bingo, practice dice, blank manuscript paper. They are useful alongside lessons and perfectly useful without them, and plenty of homeschool families use them as a music unit on their own. Get the free printables · Read: music in your homeschool
Questions homeschool families ask
How do music lessons fit into a homeschool schedule?
Lessons are one-on-one over Google Meet, so there is no drive and no waiting room — the lesson starts when you open the laptop and your day carries on afterwards. Because most students are in school during the day, the studio has real daytime slots open, which means a lesson can sit in the morning, land either side of a co-op day, or move if your week moves.
What ages do you teach?
Adults of any age and students 11 and up. Online lessons ask a lot of a young student's focus, and younger beginners genuinely do better in person, so 11 is the floor rather than a suggestion.
Can I get something in writing for our umbrella school or portfolio review?
Yes. Quarterly progress reports are free and opt-in: one page per season saying what your student worked on, what improved, and what comes next. Families who have to hand something to an umbrella school or bring a portfolio to a review use them as the music record, and there is no charge for it.
How much do lessons cost?
Lessons are $45 for 30 minutes, $65 for 45 minutes, and $85 for 60 minutes. The first 30-minute lesson is free, with no obligation to continue and no card taken up front.
Try one and see
The quickest way to find out whether this suits your student is a free 30-minute lesson. Pick a daytime slot, meet the teacher, play or sing a little, and decide afterwards.
Book a Free Trial LessonViolin and cello students book here. For voice, get in touch on the voice page — Melanie's schedule isn't online yet.