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    • About Matt Safley Music
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  • Contact
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Music School in St. Louis

Private Piano Lessons

Matt Safley Music offers piano and keyboard lessons for children and adults and advanced players. Never played the piano or keyboard before? No problem—beginners welcome!

Transform Your Learning and Performing

Going Beyond the Fundamentals

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Within lessons, students increase a variety of skills, including hand-eye coordination and ear training, as well as study music history and music theory. 


In an introductory lesson, students learn a handful of basics such as:

  • Hand placement
  • Recognition of simple music notation
  • How to play a simple melody


Progress is evaluated regularly, and when it's time, students move up to more challenging intermediate to advanced piano/keyboard techniques.


Minimum weekly 30-minute lesson.

What Students Learn

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During a school year of private piano or keyboard lessons, a beginner or intermediate student will:


  • Study basic concepts and skills like finger placement, scales, pedaling, key signatures, and rhythm
  • Learn multiple pieces and progress to more challenging music
  • Improve music reading
  • Advance in proper piano technique 
  • Master how to memorize a passage of music
  • Learn how to prepare for a performance
  • Gain a deeper understanding of musical periods, styles within those periods, and their correlating composers

Build Confidence and Creativity While Learning to Play, Improvise, and Perform on the Piano

Matt Safley Music aims for students to immerse themselves deeper into music to further develop their skills, and learn the ins-and-outs of the piano and keyboard through private lessons and performances.


Each year, students learn proper performance preparation and are taught to give feedback through performance opportunities and workshops. Their learning is then put into action with the opportunity to share their growth and inspire peers through recitals, becoming a transformational experience with a life-altering instrument.

Practice Expectations

Students are expected to practice and come prepared for lessons. It's required that students practice a minimum of three days a week consistently. If this requirement is not met, students may be asked to reduce their lesson time or be referred to another studio.


Piano students must have a keyboard to practice at home. Beginners need a minimum of 30 keys. Intermediate players need a full size keyboard with 88 keys and touch sensitivity. 

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Advanced Piano Lessons

Advanced piano and keyboard lessons offer an in-depth curriculum focusing on technique and music theory. Students will learn the following concepts and more:


  • How to enhance and build your artistry through adding in colors and textures of sound into your playing 
  • Arm movement and proper mechanical function
  • Pedaling methods
  • New scale and chord sequences

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Matt Safley Music

14538 Manchester Rd, Ste 201, Ballwin, MO 63011

(712) 291-5097

Matt Safley Music is a music studio in St. Louis offering private piano lessons, voice lessons, and combination piano/voice lessons.


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14538 Manchester Road, Ste 201, Ballwin, Missouri 63011


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