Private music lessons are offered for the following instruments:

Piano, Keyboard, Voice, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Violin, Cello, Trumpet, Tuba, and Drums. The Ballard Academy has more than 70 university trained instructors on call. If we don't have the instrument you want listed above, let us know and we will find the right teacher for you. All of our instructors are university trained and handpicked by us!

Please contact us for available private lesson times.

Fees: 

Yearly Registration Fee: $25 per student (max of 2 Registration fees per family)

60 Min. Private Lesson: $65 per lesson
45 Min. Private Lesson: $51 per lesson
30 Min. Private Lesson: $35 per lesson

All private music lessons run weekly from September through June. For your convenience, our academic calendar follows the Seattle School District Calendar.  In the case of year round registration, classes run July-June. At the Ballard Academy you do not have a long term contract, students are month to month with a one month notice to discontinue lessons.

At The Ballard Academy of Music and Dance, we believe that private instruction is the best way for anyone to learn how to play an instrument.  One-on-one instruction means that students are given the instruction that best suits how they learn as an individual.  Private lessons allow students to learn the type of music they personally are most interested in.  Also with private lessons a teacher can focus 100% of their attention on that one student to ensure that things such as hand positioning, posture or understanding of a particular concept are correct.  If a student has a particular difficulty in one area, the teacher can work on it without hampering the progress of a class of students and alternatively if a student is excelling in one area, the teacher can take the student to the next level. We offer 30 minute, 45 minute and 1 hour lessons.  Our music teachers have university training in the instruments that they teach.  We teach students from beginners to very advanced.