The Lesson Lab

Specialties

We are a music lesson facility in Long Beach. We offer private instruction in voice and imost instruments.

In addition we have a Saturday morning walk in ukulele class for beginning and intermediate players, a Caribbean steel drum workshop and an Oboe Reedmaking class.

All of our instructors hold degrees in music from Cal State Long Beach. We are professional working musicians and educators, and we give our students the tools to reach their musical potential.

Meet the Business Owner

Penny W.

Business Owner

Penny Watson started paying a lot of attention to music at the age of 7, when she first heard Crosby Stills and Nash sing on her pink transistor radio. Very quickly she was trying to figure out all the voices that were not the melody. It was always the music inside the music that held her interest

Penny started on guitar and vocals at 10, and in middle school moved to the saxophone. Because her ears were good she did not ever learn to read music well until college. At Fullerton College she committed to learning the written language of music, and became a music copyist as a result. She graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a degree in music with an emphasis in saxophone and an elementary teaching credential.

In 1991 Penny was hired as the music coordinator for The Arsenio Hall Show. She has copied and arranged music for Chaka Khan, The Jackson 5, Natalie Cole, Steve Tyrell, Frank Sinatra Jr., and many others.