Piano Lessons for Adults
Weekday daytime lessons, taught live one-to-one. Complete beginners welcome.
It's not too late to start
Learning an instrument as an adult is worth the effort, whatever level you reach. Taking on something genuinely difficult later in life keeps the mind working and gives you something of your own to get better at — whatever your reason for wanting to play.
Adults learn differently from children in some ways. In my experience adults are often more self-motivated, and they do well when there is a clear goal to work towards. That might be preparing for a performance or an exam, learning a particular piece you've always wanted to play, or working through a structured programme at your own pace.
I'm flexible about how I teach, and I'll find the approach that suits you rather than pushing everyone through the same one.
Lessons during the working day
I teach Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm — hours that are yours, rather than the ones everyone is competing for after work.
Working from home
A lesson during the working day fits in far more easily than a 7pm slot after a long one.Shift and part-time work
If your week doesn't follow the usual pattern, daytime availability is often the only thing that works at all.Retired learners
Plenty of people take up piano properly once they finally have the time for it. No need to work around anyone else's schedule.Whatever you're starting from
Complete beginners are welcome. You don't need to read music, and you don't need any background in it at all. We start from wherever you are.
Returning after a long gap is one of the most common places to begin. Plenty of adults played as children, stopped in their teens, and have wanted to pick it up again ever since. What you learned then hasn't gone — it comes back more quickly than you would expect.
If you want to work towards something, I prepare pupils for ABRSM, Trinity College London and Rockschool exams, and teach music theory alongside. Equally, there is no requirement to take an exam ever. Many adults simply want to play well, and that is a perfectly good aim.
What you'll need
A piano or a keyboard with weighted or semi-weighted keys, a device with a camera, and a reasonably stable internet connection.
Lessons are taught on MOOZ, a platform built for music tuition rather than meetings, so the piano sounds like a piano, not a video call. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android — download it once before your first lesson and I'll send you a link to join.
MOOZ costs you nothing. Pupils join free — the subscription is mine, not yours, and there is nothing extra to pay on top of the lesson price.
Prices
Your first lesson is free if you have not had lessons with me before — a proper 45-minute lesson, plus a chance to talk through what you would like to get out of playing. No card needed, and nothing to commit to afterwards.
A single 45-minute lesson is £30. An 8-lesson package is £224, which works out at £28 a lesson and holds the same day and time for you each week. Full details, including how cancellations and refunds work, are on the lessons page.
Ready when you are
Plenty of people put this off for years, convinced they have left it too late or that they aren't musical enough. Neither is usually true. If you have been meaning to start, book a single lesson and see how you find it — there is nothing to commit to beyond that.