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San Diego School of Music offers private and group music lessons, including piano, voice and singing, guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, bass, ukulele, violin, viola, cello, trumpet, trombone, flute, clarinet, saxophone, orchestra, and band lessons. The program also offers after school music programs and uses technologically advanced equipment and gear, including music teaching apps, music software, Skype, and other tools, and students may use their own device in lessons.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Music lesson options seven days a week, with daytime and evening hours Monday through Friday and daytime hours on Saturdays and Sundays
San Diego School of Music has a full-time mission of teaching music lessons and has a proven track record of excellence since 2007, with over 1,100 families over more than 11 years. It is part of San Diego’s largest music school, with over 1,200 students from ages 4 to adult, and offers one-on-one, semi-private, small group, and after school programs in local communities throughout San Diego. The school offers free loaner instruments to get started in lessons, with options to continue by renting or purchasing instruments, and it sells music books, instruments, and accessories with student discounts on music supply needs.
Music teachers at San Diego School of Music have either college training or professional performance experience, and the school states it has multiple music teachers for every instrument and the most music teachers in San Diego. The program includes free music recitals in world class music halls, biannual recitals in the spring and winter, annual student showcases with no participation fees, and low pressure recitals. Students can participate in professional photos, bring their instruments to the photo shoot, and wear whatever they like.
San Diego School of Music is nationally recognized as a Top 10 music school in the nation for 2022 and is an Official Family Safety Plan Music School. Safety-related features include glass windows on lesson rooms, full-time office staff so students and teachers are never left unsupervised, extensive background checks of all teachers and staff, security cameras in all rooms, and an open-door policy for parents, who are always invited to sit in on their child’s lessons. The school offers trophies, certificates, and award wristbands, including special color Musical Ladder wristband bracelets, trophies, and certificates for passing musical tests.
San Diego School of Music describes itself as San Diego County’s largest music school and offers guitar, voice, singing, bass, drum, violin, piano lessons and more at two convenient locations in Santee and Rancho Bernardo.
Last updated July 8, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Music lesson options seven days a week, with daytime and evening hours Monday through Friday and daytime hours on Saturdays and Sundays
San Diego School of Music has a full-time mission of teaching music lessons and has a proven track record of excellence since 2007, with over 1,100 families over more than 11 years. It is part of San Diego’s largest music school, with over 1,200 students from ages 4 to adult, and offers one-on-one, semi-private, small group, and after school programs in local communities throughout San Diego. The school offers free loaner instruments to get started in lessons, with options to continue by renting or purchasing instruments, and it sells music books, instruments, and accessories with student discounts on music supply needs.
Music teachers at San Diego School of Music have either college training or professional performance experience, and the school states it has multiple music teachers for every instrument and the most music teachers in San Diego. The program includes free music recitals in world class music halls, biannual recitals in the spring and winter, annual student showcases with no participation fees, and low pressure recitals. Students can participate in professional photos, bring their instruments to the photo shoot, and wear whatever they like.
San Diego School of Music is nationally recognized as a Top 10 music school in the nation for 2022 and is an Official Family Safety Plan Music School. Safety-related features include glass windows on lesson rooms, full-time office staff so students and teachers are never left unsupervised, extensive background checks of all teachers and staff, security cameras in all rooms, and an open-door policy for parents, who are always invited to sit in on their child’s lessons. The school offers trophies, certificates, and award wristbands, including special color Musical Ladder wristband bracelets, trophies, and certificates for passing musical tests.
San Diego School of Music describes itself as San Diego County’s largest music school and offers guitar, voice, singing, bass, drum, violin, piano lessons and more at two convenient locations in Santee and Rancho Bernardo.
Last updated July 8, 2026.
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