Private Lessons

Piano & Keyboard

Piano & Keyboard

Weekly Private piano lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music literature), and 60 minutes for advanced students (who are playing more difficult literature). However, high achieving beginners or slower learners may wish apply for more time than allotted here. In other words,

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Voice & Drama

Voice & Drama

Weekly lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music literature), and 60 minutes for advanced students (who are singing more difficult literature).  However, high achieving beginners or slower learners may wish apply for more time than allotted here.  In other words, you choose

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Strings

Strings

Weekly lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music literature), and 60 minutes for advanced students (who are playing more difficult literature).  However, high achieving beginners or slower learners may wish apply for more time than allotted here.  In other words, you choose

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Percussion

Percussion

DRUMS AND STEEL DRUM: weekly lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music literature), and 60 minutes for advanced students (who are playing more difficult literature). However, high achieving beginners or slower learners may wish to apply for more time than allotted here.

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Percussion: Steel Drums

Percussion: Steel Drums

Mrs. Lydia Laidlow, teacher of Paint Branch Elementary school had a dream that the children who were “challenged” could do well in school. So in the summer of 2006 she approached the Ottley Music School about teaching her afterschool children steel drums. Since there was no county assistance in this pilot program, Mr.Adjahoe, and Mrs.

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Percussion:  Hand Drums

Percussion: Hand Drums

This course will explore an accelerated scheme in identifying the properties of African drumming as it is demonstrated in the Djembe orchestra. This includes but is not limited to refining the foundational skills of the instruments in the orchestra, as well as exploring the language of the drum. This process will incorporate this understanding as

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Brass

Brass

Ottley Music School offers private lessons in French horn, trumpet, baritone horn, Euphonium, and others.  The student must bring (own or rent) their own instruments.  The teacher is ROGER WHITWORTH, M.Mus.  Call the school at 301-454-0991 for exact days and times

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Woodwinds

Woodwinds

Mr. David Byass, B.Mus., Saxophones and Clarinets.   Ms. Alissa Gittens, M.Mus., Flutes, and Clarinets, Ms. Virginia Atwell, Bassoon and Recorder Ottley Music School offers lessons in Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophones, and Bassoon are offered.  Weekly lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music

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Organ

Organ

Classical Organ weekly lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music literature), and 60 minutes for advanced students (who are playing more difficult literature). However, high achieving beginners or slower learners may wish to apply for more time than allotted here. In other

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Harp

Harp

Harp, is taught by Wendi Willis.  The students are taught how to read the music and play from the book as well as by ear. Weekly lessons are offered for 30 minutes for beginners, 45 minutes for intermediates (when the student begins to learn simple music literature), and 60 minutes for advanced students (who are

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Lorena Fuentes

My son has been taking piano lessons for almost a year. He loves his teacher's method of teaching and I can tell that they really care about my kid. Ottley  Music School is wonderful and I highly recommend it.

Lorena Fuentes / parent
Maria Kisker

The school has everything that children need for successful study: textbooks, daily assignments, planner, notebooks, music sheets, a staff who are very nice and kind, and ready to help at any time.

Maria Kisker / parent
Victor Baules

I am most grateful that my son's guitar teacher not only makes learning fun and shares his knowledge, but his passion for music as well. I could not have found a better place for him to learn guitar.

Victor Baules / parent

Musical Instruments

classes

Violin

The violin is a stringed instrument played with a bow

Viola

The viola is a lower stringed instrument played with a bow

Cello

The cello is used as a solo musical instrument.

Flutes

The flutes are a woodwind instruments.

Piccolo

Is a high-pitched woodwind instrument in the flute family.

Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument.

Guitar

Guitars are stringed instruments played by being strummed with fingers.

Voice

Is an instrument in the human used for singing.

Phone: (301) 454-0991