Welcome! Click here to read about our teachers, see their real-time availability, and book your first 45-minute trial session for just $25.

After you've attended your trial session, watch your email for a note from us letting you know whether that same time is still open weekly. If it is, you'll be able to reserve it instantly for regular weekly recurring lessons!

Remember to look for that email and respond to it quickly, since other students will still be able to see and book that spot online until it's officially reserved—but once you start your monthly enrollment, your time won't be visible or bookable by anyone else. It's yours!

Our membership includes one 45-minute private lesson per week for $198 per month, and at least three recitals per year are included at no additional cost! There is a one-time registration fee to start your monthly enrollment ($39 per student).

We offer a $10/month discount off current rates for students whose lessons are done exclusively online.

Check out our Pricing Page for more price info.

Our private lessons are 45 minutes long, held once per week.

Our teachers and students love this length, since it allows enough time to review past material and practice something new without feeling rushed — but it’s not so long that students can’t stay engaged. It’s great for the younger kids too, since it allows time to do multiple activities in a single session.

Yes, your first 45-minute lesson costs just $25! One offer per student. There's no commitment beyond that first lesson, and no automatic recurring charges until you decide to enroll in our Monthly Membership.

We offer both options: In-person lessons at our school in Leander, or online lessons from the comfort of your own home.

When choosing a teacher and time for your trial lesson, be sure to look carefully at the lesson locations! Online lessons will be marked clearly as "Online," while in-person lessons will show the location as "Sense & Color School of Music."

Yes! Our monthly membership with auto-draft keeps your favorite teacher and lesson time reserved every week. You'll be given the opportunity to enroll after your trial session, so watch for that!

That depends on your scheduling needs. If you can do lessons between noon and 3:00pm while most students are still in school, we can almost definitely get you in! If your only available option is 6:00pm on Thursdays... well, you might be on a waiting list for a little while.

As far as dates go—start anytime! For new students, the fee for the first month will be pro-rated based on the number of lessons left in the month. All months after that will be the flat monthly rate.

Not at all!

Once you start the monthly membership, you’ll only be billed one month at a time. To stop lessons, just email staff@senseandcolor.com at least 7 full days before the end of the month, and you won’t be billed for any more months.

We’re in Leander, TX, a suburb of Austin, TX. The Live Music Capitol of the World is in our backyard!

We’re located at 660 S. Bagdad Rd, Building 4, Suite 410. Just across the street from Robin Bledsoe Park. At the moment, we don't have our sign posted, so just look for #410. We're a cute little brown and grey office condo with a wreath on the door.

Note: From 2008-2020, we were in Cedar Park, so you might recognize our name as one of Cedar Park’s first music schools – but as of 2021, we’re Leander all the way!

We are an appointment-only establishment.

We’re happy to show you around at your trial session, but we don’t have staff on hand for walk-in visits, sorry! You’re welcome to stop by and see the lobby, but our teachers will be busy teaching, so questions should be sent via email or text.

For private lessons, ages 4 to around 110. (Theoretically, of course. We haven’t hit our upper age limit yet.)

Our minimum age to start private music lessons is four years old, but success with children that young depends greatly on how involved the parents are at practice time.

As for adults – at the time of this writing, our student holding the elder record is 82 years young!

Most of our lessons are private, one-on-one lessons, in 45-minute timeslots. However, if two family members are taking a class together in the same 45-minute time slot, we offer a 60% discount for the second student!

We also have a Rock Band group program that rehearses on Sunday evenings, and our Early Childhood Music Program is returning soon!

Absolutely! There’s no better way to grow as a musician than to perform live, and we encourage it as often as possible.

We host recitals and rock band concerts for students at least six times a year! Our favorite venue is Kick Butt Coffee in Austin, but we've hosted recitals at a number of live music venues in Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville, and Austin. We alternate teachers between the recitals, so each student has the opportunity to perform 3-4 times per year.

Until December 2022, we charged a separate recital fee. However – cost should never be a reason to not perform live, so as of December 2022, our recitals are included in your monthly rates!

Lessons may be cancelled and rescheduled through the Student Portal with at least 24 hours’ notice. Lessons cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice may not be made up.

Please do not send cancellation requests through email, text, or any method other than the Student Portal. The only way to guarantee a makeup credit is to log in and cancel the lesson on your own through the Student Portal at least 24 hours before lesson time.

Helpful videos:

How to Cancel Lessons & Schedule Makeups
Why Can't I Cancel a Lesson Scheduled Next Month?

NOTE: Makeup lessons cannot be rescheduled! Makeup spots are limited, and once they’re booked, they’re unavailable to other students — so before you book a makeup lesson, please make sure it’s a time you can attend.

We try not to, but sometimes life happens and we have no choice. Before canceling a lesson, we'll try to arrange a substitute. If that doesn't work, we’ll reach out by email or text. Please be sure that we have multiple contact phone numbers if needed to ensure we can reach you regarding last-minute schedule changes!

If your teacher needs to cancel, we'll offer the option of either a makeup credit, or an invoice credit toward the following month’s lessons if makeups are too difficult to arrange. (Teacher cancellations only. Student cancellations may not be credited to future invoices.)

Log into your Student Portal and look in your profile section labeled "Credits." They'll be listed there, along with their expiration dates.

Helpful videos:

How to Cancel Lessons & Schedule Makeups

At this time we do not offer a discount for multiple family members in separate private lessons. However, if two friends or family members are taking a class together in the same 45-minute time slot, we offer a 60% discount for the second student!

Makeup credits are good for 60 days from the date the lesson was cancelled, if it was cancelled by a student. If it was cancelled by your teacher, those makeup credits will never expire as long as you stay enrolled.

If you cancel your monthly membership:

All makeup credits will expire 14 days after your billing ends. For example, if you submit your cancellation request on May 12th, your billing will end on May 31st, and you’ll have until June 13th to get your makeups in before the credits expire.

Students often take vacations in summer, and that’s fine! However, we can’t hold a reserved space in the schedule without the monthly payment, so for vacations, we offer two options:

• You can save the missed lessons as makeup credits to be taken later (as long as you give us at least 24 hours’ notice!)

• Or you can take the month off from paying, and we’ll fit you back into the schedule where we have availability when you return, at the current lesson rate for new students.

We can’t guarantee any specific day or time when you come back, however, so if you really like your teacher and your lesson time, we recommend keeping your billing going and working in those makeup sessions when you return.

Note: As of October 2023, there is also a $29 re-enrollment fee for returning students.

We don't automatically close for school and bank holidays - so if your lessons are on Mondays, for example, don't worry. All students receive the same number of lessons per year, no matter which day of the week their lessons fall on.

Our monthly tuition covers 48 lessons per year. The four weeks not included in the monthly tuition are:

SPRING BREAK WEEK (Leander ISD calendar)
4TH OF JULY WEEK
THANKSGIVING WEEK
CHRISTMAS WEEK

Some of our teachers choose to teach during those weeks, so it’s possible to use them for makeup lessons or additional single lessons. For all other holidays, including Memorial Day, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, etc, we are open as normal! If your teacher plans to be out those days, you’ll receive notice from us in advance, and we’ll add a makeup credit to your account, which you can use to re-book that lesson on another day.

Depending on where your lessons fall on the calendar, some months will have five lessons, some will have four, and some will have three - but the final total for the year should always be 48.

We’ll follow forecasts on weather.com to determine whether roads are safe enough to conduct lessons at the school. If roads are unsafe, all lessons that day will be done online using Zoom. Decisions on any given day will be made and communicated as early as possible.

Note: Local schools being closed on a given day does not mean that we will automatically be closed! Most of our private lessons don’t start until afternoon, so if forecasts show significant improvement by that time, we may be open.

Since weather is out of our control, we cannot offer makeups or credits to students who choose not to take the online option that day. Even if a student doesn’t have a good online setup at home, a session where the student and teacher just talk about music theory, or discuss future musical projects or ideas, or even a musical discussion by phone call is better than no lesson at all!

You can borrow one of ours for the first lesson or two, but for real progress, you’ll need your own to practice at home. Also consider renting before buying! Rock and Roll Rentals in North Austin on Burnet is a great option. Rent a drum set, guitar, or bass for a month, try it out, and see what feels best! Feel free to wait until after the first lesson if you need advice from your teacher on what to buy or rent.

If you’re doing online lessons, having your own instrument is even more important, so you’ll need your own instrument by at least the second lesson. 

Lessons need to be pre-paid, so we require a credit card or bank account on file before lessons can be booked.

Sorry, no cash or checks please.

Each of our teachers has their own preferred online platform, so if you book an online lesson, be sure to watch your text and email boxes for a note from them, and a link to the platform they'll be using! Most of our teachers use Zoom or Google Meet.

Don't forget we offer a $10/month discount off current rates for students whose lessons are done exclusively online. (Note: This discount won't be applied automatically by the system, but once you start recurring weekly online lessons, we'll manually apply the monthly discount going forward. And if you already paid full price for the first month, we'll credit the difference towards your next month!)

If you’re enrolled in our monthly plan and need to stop lessons, send us an email at least 7 days before the end of the month, and we’ll stop all future charges. Cancellation requests received fewer than 7 days before the end of the month will take effect at the end of the following month.

Tuition is non-refundable once billed! If you cancel in the middle of a month after paying for that month, you can still use your remaining lessons, or you can request makeup credits to save them for later.

To cancel your enrollment, you MUST notify us by email. Canceling your lessons in the Student Portal will not stop billing!

This question is on our online signup form because — well, because we think we’re hilarious.

The answer we’re looking for, of course, is “African or European?” — although we’re pretty impressed that so many of you actually took the time to google it and respond that the actual airspeed velocity is approximately 24 miles per hour, or 11 meters per second.

In case you're still not following us, the joke stems from the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.

Here’s the scene from the movie where the joke is first set up: https://youtu.be/liIlW-ovx0Y

And the scene from the movie where the actual question is asked and the answer given: https://youtu.be/Wpx6XnankZ8

We get a kick out of seeing your answers to that one, so thanks to everyone for playing along!