https://www.southcoastlessons.com/blog daily 0.75 2020-01-16 https://www.southcoastlessons.com/blog/soul-n42kz monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565797388353-ZNIL9DIOB2P9Q5AICP8I/Aro+Ha_0411.jpg Blog - Feeding your Soul image shot at Ara Ha https://www.southcoastlessons.com/blog/summer-retreat-g7fr6 monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565796730347-F967A8VZLRZX25KHDFKR/Aro+Ha_0394.jpg Blog - Summer Retreat 2019 photo shot at Aro Ha https://www.southcoastlessons.com/blog/yoga-5xpwb monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565795875642-R6M0H2EEIP23VHI244L5/Aro-Ha_1169.jpg Blog - Yoga Reimagined image shot at Aro Ha https://www.southcoastlessons.com/blog/exploring-n9sa2 monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce592c8732098000152407a/1565797613488-VGVMGKNK8VDIMJ36QTC8/20140302_trade-151_0742-copy.jpg Blog - Exploring Colima https://www.southcoastlessons.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/8d8ed3eb-aa91-425c-9fc0-51cb817f6bff/Youth+String+Band+1.jpeg Home - Spring and Summer 2026 currently enrolling! See what we’re offering! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/e1806108-40a2-4618-b96d-a5a868218d96/lily+b%26w+for+web.jpeg Home - free events monthly & special events! Check out our schedule! https://www.southcoastlessons.com/instructors daily 0.75 2020-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/1578934688416-PBNWPPBEURY9ALSG3932/dsc_7722.jpg Instructors - Jeff Angeley Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.southcoastlessons.com/location daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://www.southcoastlessons.com/book-a-class daily 0.75 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/1585845281021-R2BNDIHYMBU6LJIV7WUQ/DSC_0095.JPG Book a Class https://www.southcoastlessons.com/about daily 0.75 2021-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/1585612086699-X99RA54V1M4ORDD4QVUC/IMG_3828.JPG About Our mission at Southcoast Lessons is to make meaningful connections, provide an inexhaustible outlet for creative expression, and foster joy through music. We build community through participatory social music and foster a lifelong love of playing in our students. Our work is intentional and it is process, not product oriented. We’re interested in what happens when people engage with the music they love. We’re interested in what happens when people collaborate across generations and backgrounds. And, we’re interested in celebrating our common humanity and telling its story through sound. Southcoast Lessons is a one man teaching business and simultaneously, we are a community. The social programming we do would never be possible without large numbers of active, caring, and dedicated people and classes are the participants. You can now find me in the analog at my teaching space in Mattapoisett, MA. With both a large outdoor as well as an indoor teaching space, I’m sure you’ll enjoy what I have to offer. And I am, of course, still able to reach you wherever you may be digitally. We’re back up and running again with free programming across all of the neighboring communities. Our community programming is open to all, full stop. Photography by Michelle Cusolito and Isabella Bernardi. https://www.southcoastlessons.com/classes daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/1617743634507-0UM7QAWIK44JPFGP7VL3/DSC_0044.JPG Group Classes - Rising Fiddle This is an exciting fiddle class for those who would like to delve into the nuance and detail of playing Old Time fiddle tunes with nuance and authenticity. We dig into right hand bow techniques, left hand variations, more obscure tunings, pulsing, creative droning, and other sophisticated elements of the style. Players enrolling in this class do not need to have significant experience playing Old Time music, but should already have the basic elements of technique, a knowledge of the notes in first position, and some level of comfort with eat learning. (And if your ear is already pretty developed, you might not even need that note knowledge so much)! All lessons are supplemented with complementary video and written materials. Saturdays 9:30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/8a860ec0-3583-4fda-8246-e795c2fcb83a/IMG_1391.jpg Group Classes - Youth Piano/Keyboards Not your traditional piano class! This is an introduction to piano & keyboard family instruments Southcoast Lessons-style. Which is to say… keys with an emphasis on playing with others, centered in the styles you're most interested in, and presented with an emphasis on fun. Students get the basics of how to play along socially to rock, folk, blues, contradance & other popular music styles within a single session of class in addition to the building blocks to explore beyond. Saturdays 10:30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/8d8ed3eb-aa91-425c-9fc0-51cb817f6bff/Youth+String+Band+1.jpeg Group Classes - Youth String Band (Audition or invite only). Not for strings only, youth string band is an ensemble that plays traditional dance tunes and folk songs. And, we do some composing in the style as well. Open to a wide variety of acoustic and folk instruments. All tunes and techniques are taught in class by ear and supplemented with written, audio, and video materials by dropbox. Digital attendance is available for this class. Sundays 10:00am (Mattapoisett) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/8b1ae598-03ae-420f-8e03-0919a45e68dc/Rock-Band----General-Music-Instruments-Secondary-bw-RGB.png Group Classes - Youth Rock Band In SC Lessons rock band class students not only learn how to play covers of fun rock songs… they also write new songs as a band. And, at the end of the session, when they have their material rehearsed they record those songs using professional recording equipment & software. Every student gets a high quality recording of their music that can be shared freely with friends & family! Rock band class is capped with a smaller number of participants than most ensembles and a limit on the number of players on each instrument. Open to guitar, bass, drums, keys, ukulele, vocals, horns. Mondays 5:00pm (Mattapoisett) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/0f01ef91-5f2d-497c-ae01-373472f70f00/the+bridge.JPG Group Classes - Banding Together Learn to play in a band together! This class is open to players on various instruments. This band has drums, bass, guitars, keys, and room for vocalists, band, and orchestral players too! Beginners and early intermediate players on ukulele or guitar are welcome to join in as well. We’ll choose from songs you know and love, make arrangements, and play a set of music together as a group. Tuesdays 5:00pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/491cfd27-93db-4484-a35c-0530c3a9712a/istockphoto-486041876-612x612.jpeg Group Classes - Ear Learning Strategies & Applied Theory Open to all instruments. Here’s a class designed to demystify the process of learning melodies by ear and hear the chord changes to a song without a lengthy and strenuous trial and error process. And make no mistake about it, if you play a predominantly or exclusively melody instrument, chords are important for you too because they shape the melody and predict where it’s going! And strummers- it’s the same situation, the melody will tell you what’s happening both now… and next. In addition to a range of ear techniques, we’ll learn the necessary bits of practical and directly applied theory that will get you where you want to be. Ear learning, “hearing the changes,” and the ability to communicate ideas in the language of other musicians opens all the doors to social music. And these are the skills needed to find your next level of playing in every common genre. That said, though, we’ll be focused primarily on traditional melodies & folk songs in this class. They’re the roots of all else, and the very best place to start! Tuesdays 6:00pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/1579743403683-3C1GI8ND6QGLE4OCKZAQ/String+Band.JPG Group Classes - String Band Play as a big fun social group, learn new tunes and techniques. Get jam ready on fiddle, banjo, mando, guitar, or bass. In the analog we make a big sound. We build the elements needed to play jam ready songs. Kicks, tags, walks, tip offs… we’ll cover all of that. We play follow the leader, just like any tight group does in any playing setting. And, we learn the ways our instruments communicate in a group setting. In person as well as a digital options available. Tuesdays 7:00pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1c9be3f4312e7c9a2db7e4/20a262ac-f766-4e06-a242-98b09373879b/pearl+guitar.jpg Group Classes - Not Strictly Bluegrass A class for exploring riffs, rhythm, improvisation and beyond on guitar, mandolin, or banjo. All lessons will be built around the practical idea of playing familiar songs together. And- all songs will be presented in a way that makes new ideas and techniques achievable and able to be put into immediate use! Our material? Bluegrass standards, acoustic rock covers, neighboring areas of folk, and the tangential places just past the border of those genres, all explored in a fun social setting. 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