Frequently Asked Questions

Jump to a Section: Lessons Scheduling Policies (general) Music In Your School Billing Summer Procedures Holiday Policies Recitals Online

Lessons

Does Lessons In Your Home Provide a Trial Lesson Before Sign-Up?

Does LIYH Teach Adults Or Just Children?

Do I Have To Own A Piano To Take Piano Lessons?

How Do You Select Your Teachers? What Qualifications Do Your Teachers Have?

How Often Should You Practice For A Music Lesson

Can I Choose My Teacher? How Will A Teacher Be Selected?

What happens if we are not happy with our teacher?

Is there a contract?

My child has a learning disability. Do you have teachers with experience with children with special needs?

Can I take piano and voice lessons together in one combined lesson?

Can Two Students Take Lessons at the Same Time?

I would like for my daughter/son to get a great foundation. Can we start with intensive lessons, 3 times each week, and progress from there?

How soon will it be until my child starts playing something I recognize?

Will my child be required to play in a recital?

How long does it take to learn the violin?

Scheduling

What happens if our schedule changes sometime during the year? Our lesson time works now, but probably won’t work in the next few months.

I need to change the day and time of my lesson who should i contact?

Policies (general)

How do I Reschedule or Make Up a canceled or missed lesson?

What if we need to stop lessons before the month is over?

How does Lessons In Your Home handle “Making up” lessons we have to cancel? What happens if we Cancel a lesson? What if my child is sick?

Does Lessons In Your Home Charge “by the lesson”?

How Do Cancellations Work With Lessons In Your Home

What Happens if We Forget About Our Scheduled Lesson, or are Late?

Music In Your School

Can you teach lessons to my child in his/her school?

How can I get lessons started at my child school?

What kind of Music do you do in the school?

Do we have lessons if our school is closed on our lesson day?

Can you start a chorus at our school?

Can we bring Music In Your School into our Home School or group of Home school children?

Do you teach group classes?

Do you teach music in preschools?

Do your programs have to start at the beginning of a school year?

Billing

Can we pay for lessons automatically?

How do I pay for my lessons?

I’m not going to be here for Spring Break. Do I still pay for that lesson?

Summer Procedures

What happens if our family is out of town for summer vacations?

We are out of town a lot during the summer. We want to continue lessons but not pay by the month, what can we do?

Can we change our lesson day and time just for the summer months?

Can we take off the whole summer and start lessons back next fall?

When does the summer policy go into effect?

I’m only taking 2 lessons this month but my invoice doesn’t reflect that. Why?

Can We Make Up or Reschedule Summer Lessons

How are my summer lessons pro-rated?

We want to take the whole summer off and need to stop lessons and sign back up in September. Can we terminate service at the end of May?

We’d like to stop lessons because we don’t know what our schedule will be in September, and we’re taking the whole summer off.

Holiday Policies

What Are Holiday Weeks & How Does Billing Work?

Next Monday is Memorial Day, are we going to have lessons?

How do you know when my spring break is?

Can I learn holiday music?

Recitals

When is the recital?

Do adult students play in recitals?

Does my child have to participate in a recital?

What should we wear to the recital?

Online

Do you offer Skype Music Lessons?

Do you offer Google Meet Music Lessons?

Do you offer Zoom Music Lessons?

Do you offer Facetime Music Lessons?

What is an online lesson like?

How Is Your Online Music Lessons Different From Another Service?

Do you offer Online Piano Music Lessons?

Do you offer Online Guitar Lessons?

Do you offer Online Violin Lessons (or any other non-mainstream lessons)?

Do you offer Online Voice Lessons?