124 Main Street
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2X 1R9

Lesson Centre: Phone or Text (902) 496-6966

Store Phone: (902) 496-6996

Fax: (902) 496-7404

Lesson Centre Email: dartmouthlessons@long-mcquade.com

Store Email: dartmouth@long-mcquade.com

Lesson Centre Hours
Monday: 10am - 9:00pm
Tuesday: 10am- 9:00pm
Wednesday: 10am - 9:00pm
Thursday: 10am - 9:00pm
Fridays: 10am - 8:00pm
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday: CLOSED

This Location Offers:

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Private Lessons

Welcome to Dartmouth's largest music lesson centre located at 124 Main street, Dartmouth. We offer 15 spacious studios in house and our very own recital room. Our studios are equipped with state of the art keyboards and acoustic upright pianos as well as a Yamaha Concert Grand. We offer lessons in violin, viola, cello, all woodwind and brass, all styles piano, guitar (electric and acoustic), banjo, ukulele, bodhran, percussion and drumset.

Our Bass Teachers:

Blake Johnston - guitar, bass, slide guitar music lessons in Dartmouth

blake johnston (guitar, bass, slide guitar)

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Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: rock

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Blake Johnston is a guitarist/singer songwriter/producer with 27 years experience playing guitar and 20 years experience gigging and writing songs.
He has played on and produced several Music Nova Scotia and ECMA nominated albums, as well as taking home an ECMA for 2022 Blues Recording of the year for Campbell and Johnston's Black Market Band of which he is one half of. Blake is proficient in the genres of Rock, Blues, Soul, Country and teaches slide guitar as well as introduction into open tunings.
Blake is $26 per half hour lesson.

Mike Farrington - Bass, Guitar music lessons in Dartmouth

mike farrington (Bass, Guitar)

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Teaching Style: jazz, rock

Teaching Day(s): Wednesday

A founding member of Halifax funk and soul legends The Mellotones, Mike has 20 plus years of live and recording experience in the music industry. He’s performed and/or
recorded with a diverse list of maritime artists: Garrett Mason, Dutch Mason, Matt Mays, David Myles, Jill Barber, Erin Costello, The Mellotones, Matt Andersen, Nathan Wiley.
He can be heard most recently on Matt Andersen’s “Halfway Home By Morning” album, which was recorded in Nashville and toured across the country in 2019. He also played on Matt Mays’ Juno award winning album “Coyote” and Garrett Masons’ Juno
nominated album “Love and Sound”. Mike studied bass at the now defunct Canadian
Conservatory of Music with Pat Riley. Mike is $27 per half hour lesson.

Pat Riley - Guitar, Bass music lessons in Dartmouth

pat riley (Guitar, Bass)

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Online Lessons:

Teaching Style: jazz, rock

Teaching Day(s): Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday

Pat has a Certificate in arranging and composition from the Berklee College of Music, has gigged with many of the top names in the musical universe, and is mentor to some of the best musicians in Atlantic Canada. He was the main host of the CBC Rock Camp series and currently sings, writes, produces, and is a top session player. He is one of the founders and currently the director of Summer Rock Camp, has been teaching award and scholarship winning students since 1990s and is a Primary Instrument Instructor at the NSCC Music program. His rate for a half-hour private lesson is $27.

Rheo Rochon - Guitar,  Bass music lessons in Dartmouth

rheo rochon (Guitar, Bass)

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Teaching Style: jazz, rock

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Thursday

Rhéo Rochon is a Galaxie Rising Star award-winning professional bassist / guitarist / drummer who attended the jazz program at Humber College of Music in Etobicoke, Ontario. He has appeared on many acclaimed studio recordings and has toured extensively in Canada as well as in Scotland and The U.S.A. with several acts including The Garrett Mason & Keith Hallett Show, The Chronos Band, Cyndi Cain, Alan Jeffries, Tim Chaisson (East Pointers), Modern Grass and Carleton Stone (Port Cities).
Rhéo has shared the stage opening for many great artists such as Buddy Guy, Lauren Hill, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Charles Bradley, John Scofield, Junior Watson, Miles Goodwin (April Wine), Joel Plaskett, Matt Mays, and The Trews.
He is currently enjoying working with Keith Hallett, Wharf Rats, The Ordeals, WALL, Brad Conrad & The New Regulars, Little Barry & The Blue Devils, and Chris Kirby.
Rhéo is also busy as a sub filling in with many artists including The Mellotones, Campbell & Johnson’s Black Market Band, Roxy & The Underground Soul Sound, and Canadian icon Jann Arden.
Rheo is $26 per half hour lesson