
Frequently Asked Questions
Payment for lessons is on a week-by-week basis through one of our membership plans. The first lesson payment is taken upon signup, and future payments are taken every Monday during the school term. Memberships are automatically paused during school holidays.
If you are an adult, you are welcome to book in groups of 5 lessons weekly or fortnightly using a casual lesson pass.
If our teacher is unable to make a lesson, we will arrange a substitute teacher for you. If we are unable to provide a substitute teacher we will arrange a suitable alternate time for you to take that lesson.
Lessons cancelled prior to 48hrs before a lesson will be marked early cancel and you won't need to pay for it. You are able to book one makeup lesson per term for any lesson you have early cancelled.
Lessons cancelled in 48hrs or less prior to a lesson will need to be paid for in full, and no makeup is available. If you need to cancel a lesson, your teacher will do a personalised complete lesson for you to review the new concepts to work on for the week and this will be done during your regularly scheduled time and delivered the same day via the student portal.
Still come to your lesson our teachers always have fun theory, note reading, history, aural games to teach.
If you have left your guitar, flute or saxophone at school, you can hire one for the duration of your lesson via our portal.
It's up to you! the more you practice the more enjoyment you have and the more progress you make. We work with each student to develop good practice routines. Younger children can have a cartoon practice cart and get a prize when they get to the end (extrinsic motivation). We develop skills how to practice and what works for each individual and develop intrinsic motivation to practice. Practising because you want to.
Absolutely!
Half our students are adults. We have a very strong adult program. We love teaching adults. We also respect you learning music when you are already a professional in other areas. All our teachers have professional development in effective and fun ways to teacher adults. Make lifelong friends, have a laugh with others, and surprise yourself. Use to learn worried it won’t come back? It will! Have always wanted to learn? It’s never too late. Also, before your ask, no, it’s won’t take 10 years before you sound any good. It is much much quicker. Adults learn in a different way from children. The world now has a great selection of music books that suit you. All styles. Pick exactly what YOU like.
Yes. We recommend that every student has their own instrument so that they can play at home.
See our instrument page that addresses specifics.
We have concerts and parties. Adults meet every term to perform or be an audience member. We share music, food and wine.
Children have several performance opportunities every year – formal concerts with parents, icypole and winter woolie practice parties dress up kids only. They are super fun.
Yes.
We have several registered school trained teachers who can write programmes to suit each student. Lessons are super fun and hands on.
Yes. Just contact our office. They make a lovely gift.
Gift certificates are paid for upfront. You can pick how many lessons your would like to purchase and what length. The gift card holder may just contact the office to book in a time to get started after they have chosen which instrument they would like to learn.
Yes. We can program group lessons and the fee is less per child in the class.
Children often learn very well in social situations. They also learn from teacher each other and helping each other practice at play overs.
Not usually. We run our lessons to the Qld State School calendar, and this ensures our teachers have a well-earned break.
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