For kids, piano and voice are the core, drums for rhythm, guitar and ukulele as they grow. Adults can start with any of them. Students make their own music videos. 13 years, in a private studio by Hamilton Park in Jersey City. Ages 4 to adult.
A 30-minute intro to start — no commitment.
Piano
Vocals
Drums
GuitarLessons are built around what each student actually wants to play and create — from a first chord to a finished, filmed song.
Piano first for most students, with voice alongside it from the start. Drums for rhythm. Guitar and ukulele as students grow into them. Total beginners through advanced players.
Write your own songs: melody, songwriting, rap, rhyming, and lyric writing. Make something that's yours, not just covers.
Making up your own musical phrases, in real time, according to your own taste.
Standard notation, taught after the understanding is in place — so it's reading, not decoding.
Students direct their own music videos — dreaming up the concept, acting out scenes, making their own art, and shooting their own backgrounds. The skill isn't editing software; it's learning how a shot works, how to place yourself in it, and how to tell a story.
Learn to record and produce — the modern half of being a musician, on a professional studio setup.
With a green screen, professional cameras, and AI image tools, students don't just practice — they create. They dream up a video, plan the shots, design the look, and perform it. They leave with something they can't wait to show their friends.
Most students would have to relearn the song from scratch in each new key. Students here don't — because they learn the music, not just the finger positions. What you'll see is the same understanding carrying across every key, and across instruments.
Teaching ages 4 to adult.
Twinkle is 1 1 5 5 6 6 5 — not twelve different sets of letter sequences that tell your fingers what to do and teach you nothing you can carry anywhere else.
Learning is designed around games, and students choose what songs they want to learn.
About three-quarters of Americans have had music classes in school. About two-thirds have tried to learn an instrument. And only 9.6% have picked one up in the last year.
That's not a nation of unmusical people. That's a method that fails almost everyone it touches — and the failure is predictable, not mysterious. Lessons here are built on a different foundation — one where what you learn actually accumulates.
See the approach →Lessons are held in a dedicated music room in a luxury building in Jersey City — steps from Hamilton Park and right by the neighborhood school. It's a private, by-appointment creative space with everything on hand: 2 professional weighted keyboards, a full drum set, microphones, guitars, ukuleles, cameras, green screens, and a complete recording setup.
The exact address is shared when you book.
Notes from current students and their families.
…perform a blues solo at my wedding, something I never thought I'd have the nerve to do… The result was a priceless moment that I will forever cherish and be proud of — a performance that drew cheers from the crowd.
Songs are taught through scale degrees and chord progressions rather than static letter names… it allowed me to transpose songs easily, sparing me the anxiety of re-learning entire pieces note by note in new keys.
Parent testimonial coming soon.
Start with a 30-minute intro lesson. If it's a fit, that same time becomes your weekly slot — and flat monthly tuition begins on the 1st.
Monthly tuition is levelized — your weekly rate averaged across the year, rounded down, so you pay the same amount every month whether it has four or five lesson weeks.
Your intro lesson is a one-off — no commitment. If you continue, you pay for the remaining lessons in that first month at the weekly rate, and flat monthly tuition begins on the 1st. No long-term contract.
Tuition reserves a dedicated weekly time. It stays the same regardless of absences — no per-lesson deductions or refunds for missed weeks.
A weekly makeup window is available (Sunday mornings, 9am–12pm) for lessons you need to reschedule.
All lessons happen in the fully-equipped studio — which means better instruments, better tools, and better lessons than a home visit.
Online booking is on the way. In the meantime, reaching out is the fastest way to set up your first lesson.
Online booking is coming soon — email ben@weben.music to set up a lesson.
Email ben@weben.musicNo experience needed — beginners are welcome, and that includes very young kids. The studio is fully equipped, so there's nothing you need to bring to get started.
Everyone from age 4 to adult. Lessons are tailored to the student.
Piano, voice, drums, guitar, ukulele, songwriting, rap and lyric writing, improvisation, reading music, recording technology — and making your own music videos.
A full hour. Teaching runs 55 minutes; the last five are for wrapping up — getting ready to head out and sending practice materials home — so no one leaves in a rush and lessons don't collide at the door.
In a private home studio in Jersey City, steps from Hamilton Park. The exact address is shared when you book.
Start with a $50, 30-minute intro lesson. Ongoing students are billed a flat monthly tuition at the start of each month — no contract.
