Best for a family wanting steady weekly music lessons close to home, in person or online.

PianoGuitarDrumsVoice
Recreational
Group & privateIndoorSummer campsOngoing enrollmentFree trialYear-round
Lesson tuition is not posted online — contact the academy for current rates.

Lesson tuition is not posted online — contact the academy for current rates.

  • Instrument rentals are published: upright acoustic piano $45/month (6-month minimum), digital piano $40/month (3-month minimum), acoustic guitar $30/month (2-month minimum).
  • Rental payments are applicable toward purchase.
  • Summer camps register through the host campus site.
Private, one-on-one music lessons — piano, guitar, drums, and voice — for students of all ages, meeting once a week either in person or online in 30-, 45-, or 60-minute lessons, from classical to contemporary. A free trial lesson is available. Summer group music camps also run by grade band: Piano Playtime (K–2), Piano Explorers (3rd–5th), Beginner Jam Guitar (6th–10th), and Vocal Music Camp (6th–8th). Instrument rentals are available.

Schedule

Private, one-on-one music lessons — piano, guitar, drums, and voice — for students of all ages, meeting once a week either in person or online in 30-, 45-, or 60-minute lessons, from classical to contemporary. A free trial lesson is available. Summer group music camps also run by grade band: Piano Playtime (K–2), Piano Explorers (3rd–5th), Beginner Jam Guitar (6th–10th), and Vocal Music Camp (6th–8th). Instrument rentals are available.

4 Summer Camps Concluded
  • Jun 8–11 · Piano Playtime (K-2nd)ConcludedMon–Thu · 9:30am–11:30am
  • Jun 8–11 · Piano Explorers (3rd-5th)ConcludedMon–Thu · 12:30pm–2:30pm
  • Jun 15–18 · Piano Playtime (K-2nd)ConcludedMon–Thu · 9:30am–11:30am
  • Jun 15–18 · Piano Explorers (3rd-5th)ConcludedMon–Thu · 12:30pm–2:30pm
  • Jul 13–16 · Vocal Music Camp (6th-8th)ConcludedMon–Thu · 9am–11am
  • Jul 20–23 · Beginner Jam Guitar Camp (6th-10th)ConcludedMon–Thu · 9:30am–11:30am

Cost · Contact for current pricing

Details

Held on the campus of Grapevine Faith Christian School. Piano Playtime and Piano Explorers each run twice, in June.

Our take

Southlake Music Academy has been teaching in town for more than twenty years, and it keeps the model simple: private, once-a-week lessons matched to the student, piano first, but covering guitar, drums, and voice from classical to contemporary. It's a single-location studio, and the pitch is a steady teacher and a weekly habit rather than a program you graduate through.

The practical flexibility is the draw: lessons run 30, 45, or 60 minutes and can be taken in person or online, which helps a family juggling a packed week keep a kid's lessons going even when getting across town doesn't happen. It fits students of any age — the studio teaches adults alongside kids — and there's a low-commitment way in with a free trial lesson before you sign up for a standing weekly slot. If you want a big performance-company operation with recitals at major halls, this isn't that; if you want reliable, personal instruction close to home, it's a solid fit.

Come summer there's a grade-banded camp track — piano, guitar, and vocal camps for elementary through high-school students — and the studio rents instruments monthly, with rental payments applying toward a purchase, which is a genuinely useful on-ramp before committing to buying a piano or guitar.

Local Tips

Southlake Music Academy is on the East Highway 114 corridor. A few practical notes:

  • Lessons are individually scheduled rather than run on posted studio hours, so you book a weekly time for your instrument.
  • The in-person-or-online option is real and worth using on a bad-weather or overscheduled week.
  • Instrument rentals are available on-site, which beats buying before you know a kid will stick with it.
  • The on-ramp is a free trial lesson — use it before committing to a standing slot.
  • The summer camps aren't held at the studio; they run on the campus of Grapevine Faith Christian School and register through that site.
Credentials

Southlake Music Academy is a single-location studio; its site does not name an individual owner or director. Lessons are taught one-on-one by the academy's instructors across piano, guitar, drums, and voice, spanning classical to contemporary styles, weekly in person or online. The studio's own site features parent testimonials praising a piano teacher named Sheri. Specific instructor credentials are not published on the site.

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