There are many different facets that make for excellence in a music program. The primary thing is probably that we want you to be as good as you can possibly be, with no limits or impediments to your future musicianship, whether you have large or small plans for your music. Also, we want every area of our interaction with students, teachers, and staff to be the best quality possible. Our business is built around these ideas. We try to include everything you need to make excellent music, nothing you don't need, and if and when you decide to move from casual learner to intermediate student to advanced player/singer to recording/performing professional, you'll have all the tools necessary to be the best - according to your goals. And we are striving daily to better a better studio in every area.  Here are some other factors.

Teachers: You are wasting your money on lessons unless you have a great teacher with a great program. In our studios, you will have a personable player as a teacher, who crafts our program to enable you to play your music, not ours. Our teachers have observed over 100 lessons, they have learned and follow the Promethean curriculum for their instruments and music theory, and have played an average of 15 years. Promethean teachers are career musicians; they're dedicated players and singers skilled in their art, who understand what it feels like to want to make music. Our teachers take your goals seriously, and because of that, as the wise professionals they are, they look ahead to teach you all you'll need to get where you want to be. We search constantly to find that rare jewel, the responsible musician, and when we find one, we hire 'em and train 'em to teach you. They also have to be excellent, hip musicians, who can jam and make cool music and who are dedicated to growing as musicians and teachers. They receive constant oversight and input in their teaching and frequent, updated training. It really does take a lot of work to become aPromethean teacher, but the few who make it are well worth the effort.

Curriculum: Almost all music teaching studios with more than one teacher are a teaching boutique; that is, like a hair salon, each person does their own thing, and quality varies hugely teacher to teacher. The importance of an instructor's unique insight, experience, knowledge, personality, and skills cannot be overemphasized. At the same time, each instrument we teach has a developed curriculum that instructors follow earnestly and then illuminate with their abilities. One quarter of the time in lessons is spent on music theory (making music work for you - divided into ear-training, rhythm, and information sections), 1/4 is spent on instrument technique (learning your instrument or voice and making it work for you), and 1/2 of lesson time is spent on the songs you pick. This produces the balance of precision and practical playing or singing necessary for the greatest rate of progress.

Practice techniques: Hey, news flash: you have to practice to get better. We know that and we're going to encourage you to practice and show you how to practice well and efficiently, how to use a metronome, how to isolate problem areas, etc. Result: you get better faster. Practicing well is a matter of balancing detail vs. product, knowledge vs. mastery, long-term goals vs. short-term goals. Promethean has strategies to make your practicing as effective as possible.

Performances: Truth - the more performance experiences you have, the better you will play or sing. Whether you're shy or bold, everyone wants to be able to sing or play well, preferably awesomely - just like a recording, as even if it's just you by yourself at home. That's what the bands and recitals we provide are for: helping you concentrate and perfect your music to where it sounds as complete as an album. You aren't required to be in them, but if you do, you will play and sing much better for it. Recitals are twice a year, bands operate year-round. So go for it.

Master classes: Twice a year we'll meet in a seminar about your instrument. Great musicians talk, sing, teach, and play. In a master class you may hear things you've never even thought about, ways to play, or practice, or sing, or think, because the BIG PICTURE is presented. Something said in master class may help you tomorrow, or it may hit you 2 years from now. We have 6 to 8 master classes at a time covering songwriting, guitar, bass, voice, woodwinds, piano, bands, and other topics and you can come to any and all of them.

Facilities: We've spent thousands of dollars in each individual studio, all equipped with computers, printers/copiers, sound systems, curriculum handouts, instruments, music, amps, and everything conceivably needed for lessons. There is an atmosphere of dedication, learning, and fun here.

Bands: We offer bands for our students (and people who aren't our students) for the same reason that we have recitals, i.e., the more you play for others, the more your music will sound complete and REAL. Band are small groups of 4 to 10 students that play music you love with other people your age, like yourself, with a teacher to lead, supervise, and critique. They play cool songs, maybe improvise or write a song. Bands meet once a week for 4 months and culminate in a live performance which is recorded on CD. All instruments are welcome, not just ones we teach!! Get more information about bands in the band section of What We Do.