Southcoast Lessons

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Bristol Community College, 800 Purchase Street ( Co Creative Center Temp space)
New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740

Our Booking PolicyWelcome to Southcoast Lessons . Payment is due at the time of booking or if paying by an alternative method , at the first class of the session. Classes are session based at $200 per 8 week session . Thank you!

Private Lesson

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Group Lesson

Banding Together - Tuesday 5pm

1 hr$200

2025-2026 Season

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

Learn to play not one, but several different instruments! And that would be cool enough, but there’s so much more. This is the bridge program between my Play Party class and the Growing Tradition class, and as such it has all of the same super fun elements of both. Traditional dancing, singing, hambone body percussion, songwriting… we do them all! And this session we’re adding in a brand new visual art element too. All students will be making moving panoramas that play like an old fashioned movie tell the story of a tune they love.

Rising Fiddle- Saturdays 9:30 AM

1 hr$200

2025-2026 Season
Saturdays 9:30AM
*Please note this class will take place at Co-Creative Center beginning November 1st - 137 Union St, New Bedford MA *

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

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.

Youth String Band- Sundays 10AM

1 hr$200

** Please note this class will remain at 10 Martin Avenue , Mattapoisett**
2025-2026 Season

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

(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.

Not Strictly Bluegrass - Tuesdays 8PM

1 hr$200

2025-2026 Season

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

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.

Tuesday String Band - Tuesdays 7PM

1 hr$200

2025-2026

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

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.

Youth Rock Band - Monday 5PM

1 hr$200

**Please note this class will take place at 10 Martin Avenue, Mattapoisett **
2025-2026

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

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.

Rhythm , Chords , Keyboards- Saturday, 10:30 AM

1 hr$200

2025 2026 Season

$200 per 8 week session . Invoice sent through Square

*Please note- this class will take place at Co Creative Center beginning Saturday November 1st- 137 Union St- New Bedford MA*

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.

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(508) 207-7357

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https://www.southcoastlessons.com/classes

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5 reviews

Cheryl
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I’ve been taking music classes and private lessons with Jeff for the past 5 years . I find that no matter the material , he is extremely knowledgeable and able to adapt on the fly .

Jeff poses what most people in today’s world seem to be missing ; kindness , patience and empathy . Especially with the youth classes . He relates with the kids on a their level .

I highly recommend Jeff and Southcoast lessons whether you are an experienced player wanting to try something new , a beginner or looking for your child to start their musical journey .
Sheila Williams
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Fun class- learning new material every time
Donna Perry
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Jeff is a wonderful instructor who teaches students at different levels on different instruments and as an individual I always get what I need from each class. I really enjoy learning the history of music as well as the tune itself. Great community within the class.
Louise Anthony
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Excellent lesson!
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Jeff is an awesome teacher! He took me from knowing nothing on the mandolin, to learning many songs and how to pick them up quickly, to playing publicly in sessions around New Bedford with many other musicians. I didn't think that was possible as a middle-aged parent and always felt I'd missed the bandwagon of being a string musician, always a little jealous of people freely playing socially. Can't recommend Jeff enough as a patient teacher having developed a social, nurturing environment for people to collectively make mistakes along the way to having a lot of fun. I've seen many older people pick up many instruments with him from zero knowledge, including the scary ones, like violin. Have fun - try his lessons -