When life flashes before your eyes, it should sound like a symphony.
Music lessons in Ridgewood, Queens, for all ages and all skill levels.
“Sean and his team have been teaching my daughter piano for 2 years and she loves it! We previously used another music school for 6 months and she had made essentially no progress. She started immediately improving once we moved her to Rising Stars.”
A Space That Inspires.
Go deep, not wide.
We like to say that you can learn to play every instrument, but you can’t learn to play them all at the same time, in the same season. Pick one instrument, just one, and stay with it the way you’d stay with a good friend on a long drive at night, because the ones who quit are the ones who tried to grab everything at once and came up holding nothing. Every teacher here works off the same curriculum and every lesson leans on the same crooked thing, whatever you’re worst at right now, that one chord that won’t ring, that one beat that keeps slipping, and we go at it again and again until it sticks, one new idea a week, maybe, and reps, reps, reps, five wild minutes a day that change your hands more than any marathon cram ever could. Some weeks the lesson is nothing but a guided practice session and that is the whole beautiful point. We’d rather you play three songs well than thirty badly, and be playing them still, on some porch, fifty years from now, humming along.
Most of our teachers play several instruments. We still recommend you pick one and stay with it for a few years before starting another. Five minutes a day on one thing beats an hour spread across four.
Part of the band.
- 01We aim to share curriculum and language as much as possible so your material is consistent no matter who you’re working with.
- 02We manage up-to-date student profiles, written after every lesson — any teacher can pick up where the last left off.
- 03We run weekly one-on-one meetings between each teacher and the Student Success Coordinator to stay in sync and inspired.
- 04If your usual teacher is out, the guest teacher already knows you.
Something to look forward to.
We, secretly, have bands too. The musicians who play long enough end up in bands. Real bands, with names, setlists, autonomy, maybe groupies too IDK. They play at local events and at our student showcases twice a year.
The Student Showcase: The second Sunday of June. The second Sunday of December. Family and neighbors fill the room. We turn the amps up. We turn the lights down. You’re welcome at the next one, get ready to scream in adoration!
No packages, contracts, or semester-long tuitions.
Only pay as you go.
Pay in advance to reserve your first lesson. If you enjoy yourself and want to continue, we’ll hold the slot for you each week. You’ll be charged exactly 24 hours before each lesson — cancel any time before that charge.
Best for younger students and busy schedules.
- One-on-one instruction
- Pick from six instruments
- Same teacher every week
- Cancel up to 24h ahead
Room to warm up, work, and play.
- One-on-one instruction
- Pick from six instruments
- Same teacher every week
- Cancel up to 24h ahead
Theory, technique, and full songs in one sitting.
- One-on-one instruction
- Pick from six instruments
- Same teacher every week
- Cancel up to 24h ahead
One percent of every lesson pulls carbon out of the sky.
Since February 2024, 1% of every lesson at Rising Stars has gone to Stripe Climate, which funds the companies building permanent carbon removal: pulling CO₂ out of the air and locking it away for centuries.
It happens on every charge, automatically. A $50 lesson sends 50 cents. Small on its own. It adds up. See the projects it funds.
Your life can still sound like a symphony.
Book your first lesson. Pay as you go, no packages.
Questions first? Call (917) 791-2083 or email sean@risingstars-musicschool.com