The Progress Paradox: We Prioritize Musical Growth Over Retention

​Many modern music schools focus on keeping students signed up rather than ensuring they actually improve. By avoiding difficult challenges to keep lessons “fun” and stress-free, they prioritize monthly tuition over student progress and musical growth.

Music Teacher in Palos Hills, IL. Provides guitar and piano lessons for children and adults on a pay as you go basis with options to prepay for discounted rates.
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McMusic Lessons & Performances strives to inspire a deeper understanding of music. Lessons focus on theoretical studies and application to practice, technique, and creativity to fule musical growth within student progress . The instructors teach a spatial awareness in concept and play, to reach more tangible understandings of abstract musical concepts. The music lessons develop a musical awareness that provokes exploration, experimentation, and discovery designed for all ages.

​McMusic Lessons rejects the “retention-first” model. We focus on musical growth:

  • Real Skill Acquisition: We tackle difficult theory and technique head-on.
  • Accountability: Regular practice and measurable goals are non-negotiable for musical groth.
  • Long-term Independence: I teach you how to play without needing a teacher forever.

​I don’t just want you to stay enrolled; I want you to get better.

“We study the nature of music to nurture a lifetime of creativity.”

– Kevin McClain

McMusic Lessons & Performances

Study of music incorporates music cognition at McMusic Lessons & Performances

Pay-as-you-go or prepay for discounted rates on guitar lessons, bass guitar lessons, piano lessons, or ukulele lessons at home or in studio. Online music lessons are also available and include video examples of songs and exercises.