UpBeat Music Academy is a 4000 square foot facility located in the heart of Midland Michigan’s Center City. Our beautiful facility houses four large classroom spaces and four private lesson rooms, making scheduling multiple family members for different classes on the same night possible. Home to seventeen of Midland’s best music educators, UpBeat specializes in both group and one on one music instruction for students ages 6 months to adult!
Group classes at UpBeat center around our Harmony Road Music Curriculum. As the only certified Harmony Road School in the state of Michigan, we proudly sing, dance, tap and shake your sillies out throughout our play based group music classes. Designed for every learning style, Harmony Road classes emphasize rhythm, ear training, singing, music reading, and of course early piano skills. These group classes start as young as 6 months old through our unique “Baby Beats’ classes, move through toddlers and preschool classes and on up through adults! We also offer group guitar, ukulele and flute choir classes for students to surround themselves with other developing musicians.
Private lessons at UpBeat offer every student the one-on-one attention and direction that they need to develop and master the instrument of their choosing. Our teachers are specialists in their particular instrument and will provide students with endless knowledge and resources to strengthen their skills.
Beyond music lessons, UpBeat is a community of music loving families! We join together for UpBeat sponsored events such as our popular “Coffee House Nights”, formal students recitals, student practice challenges and incentives, community halloween party, spring carnival and more! Welcome to the UpBeat Family!
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Participation: A parent or guardian is required to be in Harmony Road and Young Musician classes, and any preschool or younger classes unless otherwise stated by the teacher. Depending on the class size, behavior, and expectations, a teacher may ask for parent attendance even for older classes.
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Make-up Lessons: If a teacher has to miss a group class due to illness or other personal reasons, we will do our best to get a substitute. If we cannot do so, a make-up class will be scheduled. If a teacher has to miss a private lesson due to illness or other personal reasons, we will offer a make-up lesson.
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If a student has to miss a private lesson, a make-up lesson will be scheduled as long as the facility has been given 24 hours notice of the absence (up to 3 make-up lessons per semester). If a group student has to miss a class, no make-up class will be scheduled but they may ask to receive an email with information on what they missed and homework they can work on.
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Make-up lessons are on pre-arranged Saturdays. An accommodation during the week may be made if room availability and teacher schedule allows, however that is at the discretion of the teacher and the facility.
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Why make-up Saturdays? During the week when we are regularly open, our classroom spaces are mostly full. We also cannot ask our teachers to be constantly available on days they are not regularly scheduled to work. We select 3 to 4 make-up Saturdays per semester to designate as our make-up days that our teachers are available for make-up lessons. Students get up to 3 make-up lessons per semester for their absences as long as we are given 24 hours notice of those absences.
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Facility Closures: If we have to close the facility on a lesson day due to inclement weather, snow, ice or other acts of God or nature, there will be no make-up up lessons or classes scheduled. However, if we have to cancel classes on the same lesson day again, make-up lessons will be scheduled on one of our make-up Saturdays.
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Payment Plans: By paying the deposit or partial payment for a class, you are agreeing to pay the entire amount over time. If you stop making your payments, you will not be able to enroll in another class with us. Our tuition fees are based on teacher pay rates, and we have to continue to pay our teachers regardless of whether students continue to come to class or make their payments. If you are going through financial hardship, however, please talk to us and we can see what we can do. We would rather work something out than have your student stop coming to class mid-semester and miss out on music education.
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Private Lesson Times: Each semester you will have the opportunity to save your current lesson time unless the teacher has changed their available schedule. If you do not pay your deposit before the deadline, your spot will be open for other students to take.
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Group Classes: Please let us know if you plan to enroll in a group class as soon as possible. Classes that do not fill by a certain time do not end up running, so if you want to ensure your class runs, enroll early.
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Refunds: In general we have a no refund policy because our teachers are paid for the entire semester or session. If you have a special circumstance, please let us know and we will do our best to find a solution.
