Bristol Music Shops: A Guide to the City's Best Instrument Stores
Discover Bristol's finest music shops, from century-old institutions to specialist guitar boutiques, and find your perfect instrument in this vibrant musical city.
Read more →A first scale, a film theme you've always wanted to play, or Grade 5 by the summer: lessons start from the music you want to play. For children from around 7 and adults of any age.
Our piano tutors are working pianists, many with music degrees or equivalent experience. Tempo interviews, reference-checks and DBS-checks every tutor before they teach.
Have a tutor come to your home and learn on your own instrument, go to a tutor's studio, or learn by video call. Lessons run across Bristol, from Clifton and Bishopston to Bedminster and Southville.
Learn to play modern pop, rock, and jazz on digital and electric pianos. Explore synth sounds, contemporary techniques, and accompaniment styles.
Master classical and contemporary piano styles. Build skills in sight-reading, technique, and interpretation, performing works from Bach to modern composers.
Explore keyboard skills for pop, rock, and electronic music. Learn chords, improvisation, and how to play in a band or solo.
Posture, hand shape and finger independence, so each hand can do a different job without tension.
Notes, rhythm and both clefs, introduced a little at a time alongside pieces you enjoy.
Work songs out from chord charts and by ear, so you can accompany yourself or a singer.
The technique behind a good sound: even scales, clean pedalling, and control of loud and soft.
Pieces, scales, sight-reading and aural tests for ABRSM, Trinity or Rockschool, if grades are what you want.
Blues, jazz and writing your own pieces, once the basics are under your fingers.
You don't need an acoustic piano to start. A digital piano, or a keyboard with full-size keys that play louder the harder you press, will see a beginner through the first year. Headphones keep practice quiet for everyone else in the house.
If you're aiming for grades or classical pieces, 88 weighted keys make a real difference, because they feel and respond like an acoustic piano. Your tutor can tell you what to look for before you spend anything.
Still choosing? Our guide to Bristol's music shops covers where to try pianos and keyboards in person. For younger children, read what age a child should start lessons.
Piano Lessons in Bristol
You need something to practise on between lessons, but it doesn't have to be an acoustic piano. A digital piano or a keyboard is fine to begin with. If a tutor is coming to your home, the lesson is taught on your instrument, so it needs to be in place before the first visit.
A keyboard with full-size, touch-sensitive keys (louder when you press harder) is enough for the first months. Once you're working towards grades or classical pieces, 88 weighted keys start to matter. A digital piano gives you those without tuning bills, and you can practise with headphones.
Most children are ready for one-to-one piano lessons at around 7, and some a little earlier. Piano is a good first instrument: the notes are laid out in front of you, there's no tuning, and nothing hurts small fingers.
No. Adults often make quick progress because they choose music they love and practise with a purpose. Lessons go at your pace, and nobody will make you play nursery rhymes.
Reading is worth learning on the piano and comes in gradually from the first lessons. If you'd rather play songs, you can also learn from chord charts and by ear. Most students end up doing a bit of both.
Yes. Tutors prepare students for ABRSM, Trinity and Rockschool exams, covering pieces, scales, sight-reading and aural tests. Grades are optional, and plenty of students learn without ever taking one.
Classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock and film music. You can also learn to accompany yourself or someone else singing. Lessons follow the music you want to play.
Thirty minutes suits most younger children. Older students and adults usually get more from 45 or 60 minutes. A lesson every week gives the steadiest progress.
Little and often. Ten to fifteen minutes on most days does more for a beginner than one long session at the weekend. Your tutor will set out exactly what to practise each week.
Yes, by video call. It works best with your phone or laptop placed to one side, so the tutor can see your hands on the keys.
Yes — every first lesson is commitment-free, so you can make sure the tutor is the right fit before booking any more.
Piano lessons at home work anywhere in Bristol where there's a piano or keyboard to learn on. Our tutors also teach from their own studios and online, and we'll match you with one near you.
Clifton, Bishopston, Henleaze, Westbury-on-Trym, Filton
Bedminster, Southville, Ashton Gate, Knowle
Montpelier, Stokes Croft, City Centre, Kingswood
Discover Bristol's finest music shops, from century-old institutions to specialist guitar boutiques, and find your perfect instrument in this vibrant musical city.
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Read more →One price for every tutor. Pay lesson by lesson, or save £2 an hour with a block.
Best value for regular students — £36/hr on a block of 3, 6 or 10.