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Private piano & keyboard lessonsPiano & Keyboard Lessons in Athens, GA
Play the songs you hear in your head. Private piano and keyboard lessons that build real skill — both hands, chords, rhythm, and reading — at the studio, at your home, or on Zoom.
Taught by Nick Bradfield
The piano is the clearest picture of music there is: every note laid out in a line. That makes it the best instrument for understanding how songs work — and the fastest route to writing your own. Lessons here treat it that way, as a tool for playing and creating, not a list of pieces to get through.
Whether you want to accompany yourself singing, play pop and rock by chord chart, get your left hand to finally cooperate, or sit down at a keyboard and just play, the lessons are built around that goal and adjusted as you go.
Chords that unlock songs
Learn the handful of shapes and patterns that cover most of the music you know, then play it.
Both hands, for real
Independence between hands is where most self-taught players get stuck. It's taught step by step.
Keys for writing
Piano is the songwriter's instrument. Lessons connect what you play to how songs are built.
Lessons on your own piano
Pianos don't travel. In-home lessons happen on the instrument you actually practise on — or come to the studio, or join on Zoom.
What piano lessons can cover
- Hand position, posture, and technique that avoids strain
- Major and minor chords, inversions, and smooth voice leading
- Playing from chord charts and lead sheets
- Reading notation, at the pace your goals require
- Left-hand patterns and hand independence
- Accompanying a singer — or yourself
At the studio, at home, or on Zoom
At Rabbit Hole Studios
One-on-one lessons in a working recording studio in Athens, with microphones and playback on hand.
1001 Winterville RdAthens, GA 30605
At your home
Lessons come to you anywhere within 50 miles of Athens — the practical choice for drums and piano, where the instrument stays put.
Within 50 miles of AthensLive on Zoom
The same private lesson from anywhere, on Zoom in its musician mode — full-range audio with the usual call filtering switched off, so held notes come through the way they were played.
How online lessons work →Frequently asked questions
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Other lessons
Singing Lessons
Sing with more control, more range, and a lot less fear. Private voice lessons that develop the voice you have — at Rabbit Hole Studios, at your home, or live on Zoom.
Songwriting & Production
Write the song. Then record it, arrange it, and make it sound finished. Songwriting and production lessons taught inside a working recording studio in Athens — or on Zoom.
Guitar Lessons
Acoustic or electric, first chord or first gig. One-on-one guitar lessons built around the music you want to play — at Rabbit Hole Studios, at your home, or live on Zoom.