The first lesson is absolutely free and we will never charge your card until you let us know that you liked the trial and would like to continue lessons with us. We ask for payment information up front because over 90% of our trial students end up taking weekly lessons with us, and it’s much easier for you, and for us, to get your credit card information when you first sign up.

Other benefits:

• You don’t need to create an account.
• We will not save your time slot without payment information.
• Our system does not support the ability to “swipe” or “tap” in our studio. 
• Unlike other free trials, we will never start charging your card “after x days”. 
• We will fully delete your card from our system upon request.

To get started, please visit our FREE Trial Lesson page and enter your information for a free trial lesson.

Weekly Private Lessons

• $150/month for 30 mins
• $215/month for 45 mins
• $280/month for 1 hour

Weekly Group Lessons

• $135/month for 30 mins
• $180/month for 45 mins
• $245/month for 1 hour

We charge a one-time $35 fee to help cover enrollment and administrative costs.

*Prices subject to change
*If you are using charter vouchers for payment please contact us for specific terms required.

Music Lab is an extension of Drum Lab, an award-winning drum school. The Drum Lab opened its doors in May of 2005 with one main goal: to set a new standard for drumming education. After 11 years of being in business, many customers started requesting for us to expand to other instruments. We heard our customers and opened Music Lab to start teaching other instruments and expanding our program. Music Lab offers a comprehensive, hands-on education in contemporary musical techniques and styles. We pride ourselves on QUALITY. What separates us from our competitors is quality education from experienced and educated instructors.

You can learn more about Music Lab Schools and our other locations here: https://musiclab.co

What is necessary for future lessons are the following:

1. Your instrument (unless you are taking lessons where the instrument is present, like piano or drums). If you are taking guitar lessons please bring your guitar if you can. We have guitars in the studio for you to use if you don’t have one yet or forget yours at home.
2. Folder
3. Notebook

In the beginning, you can learn how to play and practice using just sticks and a practice pad. Eventually, it would help your learning process if you are able to acquire or have access to some kind of acoustic, electric, or practice pad drum set up.

For your first lesson, all we need is for you to be ready to embark on this new musical journey with us. If you would like to bring anything else you are more than welcome to do so.

We will help you pick an instructor that best fits the needs of the student. How you can help us to choose one for you is by including some info about the student in your trial lesson form or email to us like:

• Age
• Music Experience/ Level
• Musical Interests/ Styles
• Musical Goals
• Other helpful information about the student.

We like for you to stay with one instructor for consecutive lessons, but if you would eventually like to try out other instructors that is totally an option. All you need to do is let either the Music Lab location owner or your instructor know and we will have you transition to one of our other instructors and continue furthering your education and journey at Music Lab.

We’re sorry but we do not accept payment vouchers. However, if your school uses the voucher system, please contact us for some special “earlybird” rates we have just for you!

Autopay lessons can be canceled with a 30-day cancelation notice.

All of our payments are made online. We have a manual payment option if you are doing just a few lessons at a time or we have an autopay option if you are doing consecutive lessons.

Unfortunately, we do not offer space for rent.

You can log into your account and update your card in the online portal that we set you up with at sign-up.

Outside of the make-up policy mentioned above, since we have a specific lesson time slot reserved for each student and have a legal obligation to pay the instructor for that reserved slot, payment must be made regardless of attendance. This includes illness, vacations, etc.

Music Lab must be notified of the student’s inability to attend a lesson at least 24 hours in advance, otherwise no refund or make-up will be granted. Make-ups are only guaranteed if scheduled within 1 week of the student’s request.

Music Lab will be closed for a weeklong break 4 times/year.
These weeks will be held on:

• Easter week (Spring Break)
• 4th of July week
• Thanksgiving week
• Christmas week

This will still give each student 48 lessons/year due to the 5th lesson/month that occurs 4 times/year.

Music Lab Folsom is generally open on Monday holidays such as Memorial Day and Labor Day.

• If you will not be able to attend, please let your instructor know so that they can schedule a make up lesson (this will not count against your quarterly make-up allowance).
• If your instructor wishes to have that day off, they will arrange to reschedule your lesson.

Music Lab will make every effort to keep a student with the same instructor. However, the student (by signing up) agrees that Music Lab has the discretion to reassign a student to a different instructor as needed. The student may also request to switch to a different instructor for any reason and Music Lab will make every effort to accommodate the student’s request. Also on occasion instructors might have days when they are not able to make a lesson, at which point they will provide a substitute, offer a refund for that lesson, or do a makeup lesson.

Yes! We call them “Showcases”. We usually have these twice a year, once in the spring and once in the winter. We also may have a special Holiday Showcase in December. These are a fantastic way for students to work hard on a piece and then experience what it is like to perform  in front of an audience. Check out our social media pages to see highlights from recent recitals!