Piano Lessons for Kids & Adults in McAllen, TX

The Piano Studio, McAllen:
The Piano Studio is located in McAllen, which is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission Metropolitan Statistical Area in Hidalgo County, southern Texas. The Piano Studio offers piano lesssons for young children, teenagers and adults. At the Piano Studio of McAllen each student receives individual instruction when they take group piano lessons.

Each student plays their own piano, we take the student at their own pace, the student practices their individual piano lesson assignment. With the use of our music and colors program beginners learn the music language by writing over the musical elements with colors. Students wear headphones so nobody interferes with anyone else's individual piano lesson. Inspiration is provided through peer performance and healthy competition. Meeting in groups provides a social outlet, brings out the best in the student through the challenge of cooperation and provides motivation from peers and teacher.

The Piano Studio is run by Mr. Jose Villegas, a National Certified Teacher of Music in Piano.

Mission:
We believe that music education is important in every child’s life, helps the student to experience a mental exercise through imaginative drills, creative music activities plus coordination and development of motor skills.

We intend to make our lessons educational, fun, and entertaining. When the student reaches the intermediate or advance levels, we recommend a one to one private lesson to work closer on all elements of music instruction: Tone, Pitch, Timber, and Tempo, and more.

Programs:
- Piano lessons for young children and teenagers
- Piano lessons for beginners to advanced level
- Group Courses
- Private Tuition
- We also offer programs for adults

What is Music & Colors?
It is a piano lessons program that we created since 1985 to teach student how to play the piano and understand musical concepts. The beginner student learns the music language by writing over the musical elements with colors. We believe that learning comes from repetition and doing, when the student colors over a music note, it is like writing a music note, and the student learns to makes an association of the note with the piano key and the music staff.

We call it “Mental Exercise”. We have created over the years a vast number of workbook material that it is fun for the student to color and learn. The students enjoy their piano lessons playing new songs on every lesson while we create a well rounded music education program including Music Theory, Rhythm, Technique, Sight Reading, and Ear Training.

When we work with student that have some experience and had taken piano lessons before, the use of color it is not necessary. The use of colors is just a tool to help the student understand and make a faster association of musical elements. All the student reach a point to where they challenge themselves and start reading music without using colors.

How do the headphones work?
During group lessons it is important that each student works on his or her own music, at their own pace on their own piano. The teacher helps each one of the students individually, teacher knows if the student is playing the right keys with the correct rhythm, simply by observation.

Beginner students are playing music from a program that we created: Music & Colors. The digital pianos that we use in class have a secondary input for headphones and when it is necessary the teacher plugs in and listens at the same time as the student.