Current Rates
Every rate below is per student, per 30-minute session, for a private one-on-one lesson with a dedicated teacher. Lessons are billed as a monthly package of four sessions, not paid per visit.
What Every Session Includes
Every enrollment includes four 30-minute private sessions per month, one-on-one with your teacher. Billing is automatic and month-to-month, so there is no long-term contract to sign and nothing to cancel in writing months ahead.
Recital fees, technology fees, and digital music folders are all included in the price. A lot of studios advertise a low lesson price and then bill separately for those. We would rather quote you one number and have it be the real one.
Any month with a fifth week is a built-in makeup session at no extra charge, so a missed lesson has somewhere to go.
Why Adkins Costs More Than Some Alternatives — And Why That Is a Good Trade
$50 a session is priced above the bottom of the Omaha-metro market. Some studios and independent teachers advertise a lower number. Here is what that lower number usually does not include: a background check on the adult alone in a room with your kid, a teacher who is still there next year, a recital, or a substitute when your regular teacher is out. Add those in — or price in the turnover that comes with underpaying teachers — and the real gap narrows or disappears.
Every Adkins instructor is background-checked, and every lesson room has a camera. That is not a marketing line; it is a top-3 reason parents give for choosing us, and it is the first thing that gets cut when a school competes purely on price.
Adkins Music Lessons was founded in 2017 by Zachary Adkins, 2017 National Guitar Competition winner, and has grown to 40+ background-checked instructors across four studios. The school is rated the #1 music school in Omaha by Three Best Rated (a 50-point inspection covering reviews, history, complaints, and cost) and placed 1st (Gretna), 2nd (Omaha) and 4th (Bellevue) for Best Music School in Nebraska in the Business Rate "Best Of 2025" awards. That track record is reflected in 488+ Google reviews at a 5.0★ average across three of the four studios (4.9★ at Elkhorn) — reviews that are independently verifiable on each studio's Google Business Profile, not self-reported.
In short: at $50 per session, a family is paying slightly above the low end of the local market for a private lesson with a vetted, credentialed, long-tenured teacher, at a school with a nine-year track record and a large, verifiable review base — not a discount instructor found on an app. Families that shop on price alone often pay again later in switching costs when a cheaper teacher leaves or turns out not to have been vetted at all.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much does a music lesson cost at Adkins?
- A private 30-minute session is $50 for one student, billed as $200/month for four sessions. Military families, and families enrolling 2-3 students, pay $45 per session ($180/month per student). Families enrolling 4 or more students pay $40 per session ($160/month per student). Every rate is all-inclusive -- no registration, recital, or technology fees on top.
- Is pricing per session or per month?
- The per-session price ($50, $45, or $40) is the real unit price of a lesson, but you are not billed one lesson at a time -- enrollment is a monthly package of four 30-minute sessions, billed automatically each month. There is no pay-as-you-go option and no way to buy a single drop-in session.
- Do you offer a family discount for multiple students?
- Yes. Enrolling 2-3 students from the same family brings the rate to $45 per session ($180/month per student), and 4 or more brings it to $40 per session ($160/month per student). The discount applies automatically.
- Do you offer a military discount?
- Yes. Military families pay $45 per session ($180/month per student) automatically, even with a single student enrolled. Our Bellevue studio is minutes from Offutt AFB and serves a lot of military families, and this rate applies at all four locations.
- Why does Adkins cost more than some other music teachers or studios?
- Because the price includes things a lot of cheaper options do not: a background-checked teacher, a camera in every lesson room, a substitute guarantee if your teacher is out, and a school that has kept teachers long enough to earn 488+ Google reviews. Studios that compete purely on price tend to compete on teacher turnover, not fewer perks.
- Is Adkins a good value compared to other Omaha-metro music schools?
- Yes, for what is actually delivered: a private one-on-one lesson (not a group class), with a background-checked instructor, at a school with a nine-year history, 37 instructors, 488+ Google reviews at a 5.0-star average across most locations, and a #1 Three Best Rated ranking in Omaha. A lower advertised price elsewhere is often for group instruction, an unvetted independent teacher, or a school without that track record.
- Are there hidden fees on top of the session price?
- No. The quoted per-session price already includes recital participation, technology fees, and digital lesson folders. There is no registration fee and no separate fee schedule -- the number you are quoted is the number you are billed.
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