Music Classes for Kids in Los Angeles

We turn consumers into creators.

Your child walks in with headphones and leaves with a polished track — plus the skills and self-belief to make music on their own.

Beat School for Kids teaches music production, beat making, songwriting, and performance to ages 7 to 17, in our Hollywood studio, at your child's school, or at your next event.

All abilities welcome.

Book a class
For schools and events

Serving families across Los Angeles, including Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Koreatown, Los Feliz, Mid City, and the Valley.

Our Mission

Our mission is to ignite creativity in young people — turning listeners into confident creators. At Beat School for Kids, students arrive with a desire to create and leave with an original song, production skills, and the belief that they can build anything they imagine.

A young boy smiling and posing with a thumbs-up gesture in a recording studio, wearing headphones in front of a microphone, with a whiteboard and a plant in the background.

About Beat School

A teacher is demonstrating a guitar to a group of children sitting on the floor and a bench in a classroom decorated with Halloween-themed ornaments.

Write your own song, produce your first beat, or record your first single.

Whatever it is, Beat School for Kids helps you get there. We’re the only music production class in Los Angeles designed specifically for children ages 7-17 years old.

Kids in Los Angeles are surrounded by music. It's in their headphones on the way to school, in the videos they watch, in the games they play. And almost none of them are ever shown how it gets made.

Our music program changes that.

In our Hollywood studio, with working artists, kids find out that the beat in their favorite song was made by a creative person, and they can be that person.

Why choose Beat School for Kids?

  • Small class size for focused, hands-on learning

  • Taught by artists with 15+ years of experience in both education and entertainment

  • Real-world studio experience with professional gear

  • Emphasis on creativity, confidence, and teamwork

  • Local performance and music video opportunities as available

How your child becomes a creator

People working with audio and computer equipment in a studio with exposed brick wall and string lights.

1. Listen

Your child arrives with the music they already love. We listen and commit to our goals and practice. We start there because that's what makes them want to learn.

A group of children and a teenager in a music studio, with some working on electronic music equipment, keyboards, laptops, and a DJ controller, while others are talking or sitting around.

2. Make

In the first session we collaborate and build a beat. By the end of the program they've written, recorded, and finished a song that's theirs, using BandLab and ProTools, the same tools working producers use.

Young boy with short curly hair singing into a microphone while performing outdoors. He is wearing a black hoodie. Behind him is a large speaker and trees, and to his left another young person is used wearing glasses, a black jacket, and a cap, playing musical instruments.

3. Share

They play it for the people who matter to demonstrate their skills. That might be a family showcase, a school stage, or a room full of friends. A kid who has done that doesn't see themselves the same way again.

A man with long braids, wearing a black cap, black jacket, and red hoodie, is leaning on a music keyboard with colorful lights, standing next to a speaker with a blue and red lighting background.
A man with long braids, wearing a black cap, black jacket, and red hoodie, is leaning on a music keyboard with colorful lights, standing next to a speaker with a blue and red lighting background.

Taught by working artists

Mr. J is a Grammy Recording Academy member who toured the world with Atlantic Records and Warner Brothers artists and engineered Kid Cudi's live concert in South Korea. He teaches from that experience. Your child doesn't get a hobbyist with a laptop, they get someone who has been in the music industry for 15+ years.

Book a Class
Three people posing in front of a neon pink and purple sign that reads 'Love.' Two adults, one wearing a white jacket and white pants, and the other in a white jacket with black shirt underneath; both wearing sunglasses. The child in the front is wearing a crown, a white shirt, and black pants, and appears excited.
Three people posing in front of a neon pink and purple sign that reads 'Love.' Two adults, one wearing a white jacket and white pants, and the other in a white jacket with black shirt underneath; both wearing sunglasses. The child in the front is wearing a crown, a white shirt, and black pants, and appears excited.

What We Believe

Respect.

Every kid's ideas get taken seriously, and every kid learns to take other people's seriously.


Try.

A first beat sounds rough. That's how the good ones start.


Create.

Making something beats consuming it, every time.


Support.

Kids do their best work in a room where people cheer each other on.

11.png

Made for every kid

Beat School welcomes kids of every background and ability. You don't need to play an instrument or have any experience. You only need to be curious about how music gets made.

Book a Class

Meet the Team

A smiling man wearing glasses, a baseball cap with the words 'Land of the Mouse,' a patterned shirt, and jewelry, sitting in a recording studio with audio equipment and a computer monitor in the background.
A smiling man wearing glasses, a baseball cap with the words 'Land of the Mouse,' a patterned shirt, and jewelry, sitting in a recording studio with audio equipment and a computer monitor in the background.

Jason D. Harris 

 CEO. Artist. Music Producer. Engineer.

Growing up in St. Louis, I spent my childhood running home after school to make beats in my mother’s basement. I wish I had someone to mentor me or other kids to collaborate with. But, I loved it so much - I would spend hours perfecting my art and music craft by myself. It’s an honor to provide the youth with mentorship and community to become young creators - just like the 11 year old version of me.

A man dancing on a blue outdoor court, wearing a red and black patterned jacket, black shirt, distressed jeans, red rollerblades, sunglasses, and a beaded necklace, with a cityscape in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
A man dancing on a blue outdoor court, wearing a red and black patterned jacket, black shirt, distressed jeans, red rollerblades, sunglasses, and a beaded necklace, with a cityscape in the background under a partly cloudy sky. 
Choreographer, Dancer, Host. Dean of Culture.

Chris Phipps

A group of young people in a music studio with DJ equipment, computers, and musical instruments, engaging in music production and practice.
A group of young people in a music studio with DJ equipment, computers, and musical instruments, engaging in music production and practice.
Kids in a classroom working on laptops and electronic music equipment, with teachers assisting, surrounded by educational posters and a whiteboard.
Kids in a classroom working on laptops and electronic music equipment, with teachers assisting, surrounded by educational posters and a whiteboard.

Create.
Innovate.
Collaborate.

People in a music studio with laptops, audio equipment, and a person playing guitar.
People in a music studio with laptops, audio equipment, and a person playing guitar.
A group of people posing in front of a bright red wall with the word 'JOKER' in neon lights.
A group of people posing in front of a bright red wall with the word 'JOKER' in neon lights.