Plainfield School of Music

Specialties

We are primarily a private lesson shop.

We’re all independent teachers, on guitar, bass, piano, drums and percussion. The whole of our goal is to help our students reach their musical goals. Anything else is secondary for us.

We also rent instruments as a Music and Arts affiliate in Plainfield.

Please note, while we’re often here outside of private lessons, the hours specified here are our available lesson hours, specifically. We’re not a big business, and can’t keep the shop staffed with retail employees.

History

Established in 2007.

I opened this business because I wanted to create an environment where music could be taught without any retail pressure, and without students having to learn «what the teacher wants to play.»

We have awesome teachers, and have, since day one. We bring on brilliant people, who have great insight into playing and teaching music. Keeping this place independent has allowed us to keep our prices down – you can’t get this quality of music lessons anywhere near here for less.

A few years ago, we added some basic retail, because it became useful to have strings, when a student breaks a string, etc. We also became an affiliate for Music and Arts for band instrument rentals, as our school district has no local outlet for picking up instruments.

We try to keep the place staffed and stocked to the best of our ability, but our focus remains, and always will remain, on our students. We’re not interested in becoming a big retailer.

Meet the Business Owner

Chris P.

Business Owner

I teach guitar and bass, and run the Plainfield School of Music.

I’ve been playing all sorts of music for 26 years now, and have developed a number of methods to help students learn to make the music they want to make, while applying concepts that they will need for future musical endeavors.

The most important challenge is remembering that most students come to music with the same sense of wonder I had as a kid, and that the music they like may well be as important to them as the horrible music I listened to as a kid was to me. :) I try to honor that, and not push our own views. That may be the only lesson aspect I push on our other teachers.

Music has to stay fun.