Music lessons for adults.
Starting for the first time, or coming back after years away. In your home or on Zoom, around a real schedule. Every rate is published.
What you can expect.
You'll make significant improvements in playing, enjoying, and understanding music, from chord charts and by ear. And you'll feel great about doing it, whether you play by yourself or for your friends. That's the promise. No sight-reading, no assigned repertoire you don't care about, no recital you didn't ask for.
Lessons are built around music you're actually interested in, immediately. Exercises earn their place only by serving those songs. You set the goal, and my feedback tracks it: light if you're in this for fun, direct if you're chasing something specific and time-bound.
A love for music can go dormant. Mine did.
For years I barely played. I was busy running my own business, I was on antidepressants, and music didn't have much pull for me. It wasn't a decision. The pull just wasn't there.
Then I changed my lifestyle and my medications. When I moved to Denver, music opened up to me in a way it never had before: practicing at home, weekly jams, supporting people at open mics. In 2019 my bass came back out of the closet, and picking it up felt like a sword-in-the-stone moment. I was obsessed for years after that. Hours of jazz exercises a day, then jams, then bands, then the upright.
I'm telling you this because if you're reading an adults page about music lessons, some version of this story may be yours. A love for music that went dormant. An instrument in a closet. Something special, a part of your soul, that you're trying to recapture or experience again. It doesn't die. And the way back is something I know personally, not from a teacher-training manual. If you've started and quit before, you're my favorite kind of student.
Too old? No. Too busy? Let's see.
You're not too old. Returners find their hands remember more than they expect. Adult beginners bring something kids don't: you already know exactly what music you love, and that's the engine we run on from the first lesson.
On time: lessons are an hour a week, at your place or on your screen, in a held slot that survives busy seasons because nobody has to drive to it. Practice between lessons goes for a feeling, not minutes. If you get the thing down in five minutes, you're done.
And on the one nobody says out loud: lessons are one on one, in your own house. Nobody watches you learn. Playing for yourself, forever, is a legitimate destination, and I will never spring a performance on you.
Destinations, if you want one.
Some adults come in with a destination. Most can't name it yet, and that's normal. These are examples of what students do with lessons, never assignments.
Play with people at a Denver jam.
I'm known at the jams around this city as a player, and I can walk you into that world properly. Before your first jam, we prep. I teach you the tune you'll call ahead of time, so you walk in already able to play it. I walk you through how the signup list works, give you the lay of the land, introduce you and what you play, and connect you with other folks. And I'll be there. Which jam and which night is a conversation, matched to your style, your schedule, and the music you want to play. Jams are 21 and over.
That first-jam support comes with being my student. If you want the whole night run as an actual lesson, with me actively coaching you through it, we book it and bill it as one.
Record a track of you playing.
We produce a real recording of you in Logic. For a lot of adults this is the recital replacement: proof you can hear, keep, and share.
Play for your family.
A song for a wedding, a holiday, a kid's bedtime. Small audiences count. Sometimes they're the whole point.
Finish a song of your own.
If you write, or want to, the songwriting lane runs from lyrics and harmony all the way to a recorded demo.
If your attention has opinions.
If you're ADHD, diagnosed or just self-recognized, lessons here already run the way ADHD attention engages: interest first, movement, ear and patterns before paper, and zero shame about a blank week. There's a whole page on how.
Published, like everything else.
$90 an hour in your home, $75 on Zoom. Founding rates for my first 10 new students, through December 31, 2026: $75 in home, $60 on Zoom. Your first lesson is paid up front and credits toward your first month. If the first lesson isn't a fit, it's free.