About Us

Notes Music Academy is Oakland's premier music school featuring eleven (11) fully equipped teaching studios, instructors, instruments and educational tools designed to help students reach their highest and best potential as musicians.

We offer music lessons in, piano, guitar, ukulele, violin, cello, bass guitar, drums, and voice! Lessons are available for K-12 and through adults based on individual levels of proficiency. NMA provides one-on-one training and follow-up from credentialed, university, and college-level instructors as well as working professional musicians and peers. NMA instructors are passionate about giving their students a well-rounded musical education. They focus on student needs from various backgrounds and educational learning styles. At NMA there is a heavy emphasis placed on music theory (sight reading, notation, chord construction, history, comprehension, improvisation, and transcription) which gives our students the crucial foundation to be a successful musician. 

*All of our teachers are FBI/DOJ Livescan fingerprinted.

Our Mission

Our mission is to bring out the musician in you! Everyone has a heartbeat and it's our heartbeat that is the centerpiece to all music. Music can bring out confidence in a child and the child the more mature.

Here at Notes, we have picked the best and most experienced teachers who have real careers in the music industry. This gives you the advantage to not only learn the fundamentals of music like sight reading, music theory, and notation, but also gives our students real hands-on experience in stage presence, band etiquette, and industry do's and don’ts.

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