The voice that finally hits the note with confidence. The rap flow that runs without stumbling. The mix that stops your demo sounding embarrassed. Wishes like these do not grow over a weekend, they grow hour by hour. At Tonstudio Leipzig you get lessons for hobby musicians, alone or in a pair, on site or online.
Classic music lessons usually take place in the teacher's living room or in a plain music school room. At Tonstudio Leipzig it works differently: you learn in exactly the environment where your real recording will be made later, at a large diaphragm microphone, on studio monitors, at the desk, in a DAW where professional music is produced too. That makes the place you learn not a preparation room for “going into a studio some day”, but the studio itself. Anyone taking singing lessons here stands at the microphone from the first take, the same one that is still there at the fiftieth. Anyone learning producing here sits in front of the DAW where their own EP will be made later.
The standard is one to one, you alone with me, one hour, your topic. If you want to learn together with your partner, a bandmate, a child or a friend, you can book private duo lessons (about 50 % more, but still cheaper per person than two individual hours). You choose the frequency yourself: weekly for classic learning, fortnightly for relaxed growth, or more intensively before a specific occasion (a performance, a recording, an application). On site at the studio on Bernhard-Göring-Straße or online by Zoom, and a mix of both works too. No contract: you extend block by block, whenever it suits you.
The topics are yours to choose: singing, rap and flow, songwriting, producing and beat making, mixing, voice training and speech training. Changing topic within a block (two hours of singing, then two hours of songwriting) is possible too. Popular as a gift voucher as well, from a parent to a child, from one partner to another, from someone who knows the person has been eyeing up singing or producing for years. If you are thinking about a single lesson right now: you book the detailed initial consultation directly in the studio shop.
Lessons at Tonstudio Leipzig cover six main areas, from classic singing to learning to mix. You can concentrate on one topic or move between several (first singing, then songwriting, then recording skills, for example).
For hobby singers who want to hit high notes with confidence, develop a style of their own, or who have sung for years without ever being guided professionally. Content: breathing technique, voice placement, phrasing, microphone performance, developing a style (pop, rock, soul, folk, R&B). With recordings of every exercise to compare yourself over the weeks.
For hobby rappers who want to steady their flow, hold their breathing across longer verses and build punchlines more deliberately. Content: flow patterns, word stress, breath control, double time and triplets, battle skills, hook writing, styles (boom bap, trap, cloud rap, sing rap). Auto-Tune performance is available as an optional lesson too.
For singer-songwriters, lyricists and anyone writing their own songs but always getting stuck at the same point (the bridge is missing, the words feel scattered, the chorus does not land). Content: rhyme structures, verse and chorus architecture, melodic arcs, imagery, narrative voice, co-writing techniques. Your own songs are the working material.
For hobby producers who are at home in a DAW or want to get there: Ableton Live, FL Studio, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reason. Content: DAW workflow, sound design (synths, sampling), drum programming, arrangement, effect chains, building a mix bus. Built up over months, so that in the end you can produce your own beats and songs.
For people mixing as a hobby who want more than a single workshop and would rather learn mixing systematically, over weeks and months. Content: balancing levels, EQ strategies, compression, depth, the stereo image, bus setups, moving into mastering. With your own mix projects as practice material and checks in between to measure your skills.
For everyone who wants to speak rather than sing: spoken word artists, hobby voice talent, indie podcasters, audiobook authors. Content: breath support, articulation, pace, microphone position, reading performance, using pauses, breath control across long passages. With recordings to listen back to.
Lessons are booked in blocks. No contract, no commitment, and you only extend if you want to. Three standard sizes, from a compact start to a longer path with a discount for larger blocks. Transparent lesson packages can also be booked directly in the studio shop.
The first step for anyone even considering lessons. I get to know you, listen for a while as you sing, rap, produce or play, and we talk through your goals and your pace. If you want to carry on, you book a follow up package straight away. No trouble, no contracts, no pressure.
The most popular package. Four hours in a weekly rhythm, the typical monthly block, and the one where most students grow most visibly. Every hour with a clear focus, small pieces of homework for the week in between, and a short review at the end of the block: what has moved, what is still open. Extendable block by block.
For anyone who wants to stay with it in the medium to long term. A block of ten covers about three months of weekly lessons, with a discount compared to booking individually. With a check in after the first five hours, an individual plan across all ten and the flexibility to change topic along the way. Popular as a gift voucher too.
Two people learning together in one hour: a parent and child, bandmates, singer-songwriter friends, couples, siblings learning together. Both get attention, and the hour gets a little fuller. About 50 % more per block, but still cheaper per person than two individual hours.
Lessons by Zoom, Teams or Google Meet, at the same price as on site. It makes sense with a long journey, for parents who want flexible times for their child, for songwriting hours (no microphone needed) or for theory. A mix works too: three hours on site, one online.
The standard lesson is 60 minutes. If you want to work more intensively, with a complete songwriting session, a longer recording exercise or a mixing hour with several tracks, you can extend any hour in the block to 90 minutes. There is a supplement per hour and it is flexible (two normal and two extended, for example).
Anyone who has had music lessons knows the teacher's living room, the standard keyboard, the plain music school room. At the studio it is different, and three factors make the difference.
You learn in exactly the environment where your real recording will be made later. The same microphone you stand at in a singing lesson is the microphone for the single you record later. That removes the hurdle of “first the preparation, then some day the studio”. You are in recording mode from the first hour, even when it is only practice.
Every exercise in the lesson is recorded (if you want) as WAV or MP3 into your own cloud folder. That way you can hear for yourself how your voice, your flow or your mix changes over the weeks. What sounds uncertain in the moment sounds different four weeks later. That ability to compare is perhaps the strongest driver of motivation in learning.
There is no standardised textbook that every student works through. Instead the plan is tailored to your specific goals: what do you want to achieve in three months, what is the biggest sticking point right now, what interests you most. The plan stays flexible: if you want to shift the focus along the way, I change it, with no bureaucracy.
These three factors make the difference between lessons that feel like an obligation and lessons you look forward to, where week after week you hear that something is moving.
Learning is not a straight line. There are moments of clarity, plateaus and sudden jumps. Here you can see what typically changes and when, from the first single lesson to a style of your own after a year.
Something often happens in the very first lesson: a specific breathing technique that suddenly works, a rap pattern that lands on the first attempt, a DAW workflow that unties the knot in your head. That is not the real learning yet, it is the moment that shows you this is somewhere you can genuinely make progress.
After about a month of weekly lessons (four hours) you hear the first improvements you can clearly point to yourself: the voice sits more steadily, the flow no longer stumbles in the same place, the beat arrangement comes together faster. These are not spectacular jumps, but they are concrete steps.
After about ten to twelve hours you have built a routine of your own. You know what to practise between lessons, you notice yourself when something is not sitting right, you ask targeted questions. That is the point where many students realise learning works for me, I am staying with this. The old recordings suddenly sound noticeably different next to the current ones.
After half a year of regular lessons it becomes clear what your own signature is: a vocal sound that sets you apart, a flow pattern that becomes your rap signature, a beat style that audibly sounds like you, a songwriting approach that finds your themes. That is the shift from learning to being an artist in your own right.
Many students have been coming for years, not because they still cannot do it, but because a weekly hour at the studio has become an anchor in the week. The place where you concentrate on one thing you really care about. Like a running session or a sports club, not as an obligation but as a reliable routine in a restless life.
Lesson vouchers are the kind of gift that actually gets used, unlike spa vouchers that gather dust. Parents who sense their child has been eyeing up singing or producing for years, partners who know the other person has a hidden talent, someone giving an adult returning to music a second chance. Gifts that become more valuable with time.
Preparing for lessons is less a question of material and more a question of expectations. Here are six points I know from many teaching relationships.
Think briefly before the first lesson about what your real goal is: hitting the high notes in your favourite song with confidence, releasing your own EP within a year, producing your own beats, writing a song that really holds together, performing confidently at the next slam. The more concrete the goal, the better I can tailor the plan.
Describe briefly in your enquiry where you are: complete beginner, a few years of singing or producing alone, previous music school lessons, singing in a choir, recording your own demos at home. The pace and the content follow from that. If you are coming back after a break, just say so. Many people return after years away.
The most effective rhythm is weekly, one hour a week with homework in between. If work or family keep you busy, coming every two weeks works too, with slightly slower progress. If you want to work intensively towards a specific occasion (a performance, a recording, an application), you can book two hours a week. The rhythm is not rigid.
Recording skills, mixing on studio monitors and producing on the studio computer benefit greatly from being on site. Songwriting, theory and voice coaching work very well online. A mix is popular: three hours on site for the practical work, one online for the theory. It also helps when you are away and do not want to miss a week.
Bring everything you are working on: the draft of a song, the beat that does not sound right yet, the lyrics that are stuck, the cover version you want in your repertoire. Older recordings of your own are welcome too, because they show where you have come from. That is where lessons make the most sense, on your real material rather than textbook examples.
There will be hours where nothing seems to move, and hours where a jump suddenly happens. Plateaus are part of it, and are often the phase right before the next jump. Knowing that in advance makes it harder to get frustrated and easier to stay with it. Anyone who stops because one hour felt unproductive usually misses the jump in the next one.
So that you know what to expect, four calm steps from the first enquiry to lessons in full swing.
By email or phone you briefly settle the topic and your previous experience, then I book a single lesson. In that lesson I already work on what you came for: I get to know you, listen as you sing, rap, produce or play, and we talk through your goals and realistic steps. No atmosphere of judgement, no pressure.
After the single lesson you get a rough outline of the plan for the next four or ten hours, with the topics I will work on and a rough order. You decide which block suits you (four or ten), whether with the private duo option or as a mix with online hours. Booking without contracts.
Every hour with a clear focus, recordings of the important exercises, small pieces of homework for the week in between. Over the weeks you build an archive of your own recordings, where you can hear for yourself how things change. Appointments can be moved up to 24 hours beforehand, and paused during a longer illness.
At the end of every block (after four hours in a block of four, after five and ten in a block of ten) there is a short review: what has moved, what is still open, what would be the next sensible focus. You decide whether to extend, change topic or take a break. Completely flexible, and you stay with it when it feels right for you.
Tonstudio Leipzig is in the south of the city, easy to reach by car, tram and train. For many students living nearby a weekly appointment on site is worth it, and for those further away online is often the more sustainable option.
Students from Connewitz, Südvorstadt, Schleußig, Plagwitz, Lindenau and Markkleeberg reach the studio in under 20 minutes, perfect for weekly appointments after work or at the weekend. Many come by tram 10 or 11 to Hohe Straße, others by bike or on foot. Parking in the courtyard is possible.
If you live in Gohlis, Eutritzsch, Möckern or Wahren, you reach the studio by tram through the city centre. For weekly lessons a mix is worthwhile: three hours a month on site, one online, so that the full journey is not needed every week.
Halle, Merseburg, Schkeuditz, Markranstädt, all under 30 minutes by car or 40 minutes by train. For weekly lessons a mix often makes sense: on site every two weeks, online in between. Or double lessons every two weeks, so that the journey is worth it.
From Borna, Grimma, Wurzen, Torgau, Riesa, and from Chemnitz and Dresden too, students come to the studio for focused recording or mixing hours, usually every two weeks or monthly, with online sessions in the weeks between. That keeps the lessons regular without the journey becoming a burden.
Students from Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hanover, Bremen and Dresden often book entirely online. Songwriting, voice coaching and the theory of producing work excellently by Zoom. No travelling, and weekly reliability instead. Attractive for parents too, who want flexible times for their children without the driving.
The studio is at Bernhard-Göring-Straße 17 in 04107 Leipzig, in the middle of Zentrum-Süd, within walking distance of the Karli and the city centre. Parking in the courtyard, step-free access on the ground floor, and several small cafés and a corner shop right outside, perfect for a quiet break after an intensive hour.
Here you find the most important answers before you enquire about your single lesson. If your question is not here, a short message is enough. I answer the same day and without sales pressure.
For Hobby singers, hobby rappers, singer-songwriters, hobby producers and anyone returning to music who wants to work on one topic regularly and get better in the long run.
The standard is one to one, you alone with me at the studio or online. Learning as a pair is possible for a supplement (a parent and child, bandmates, a learning pair).
For schools, music schools, clubs or companies with institutional work, there is the separate business page.
A A workshop is a one-off block (half a day, a day or a weekend) on one specific topic, good when you want one particular question answered.
Lessons are regular, weekly, fortnightly or in your own rhythm, and build up over the long term.
In lessons your voice, your flow, your songwriting or your producing develops hour by hour, with homework between the appointments and check ins to follow your progress.
The standard rhythm is one hour a week, which is enough for real practice to happen between appointments and for the progress to stay visible.
If work keeps you busy, you can also come every two weeks .
In more intensive phases (before a performance, a recording or an application, for example) two hours a week is possible.
The frequency is agreed in the first conversation.
Yes. A A single lesson is always the first step. I get to know you, listen for a while as you sing, rap, produce or play, and we talk through what makes sense and what is realistic.
If you want to carry on afterwards, the single lesson counts towards your first package.
If you find it is not the right fit after all, that is fine too: no obligation, no contracts.
Six main areas:
singing lessons (voice, breathing technique, developing a style, microphone performance), rap and flow lessons (phrasing, breathing, building punchlines, battle skills), songwriting (lyrics, melody, structure, building tension), producing and beat making (setting up a DAW, sound design, arrangement), Mixing (building skills over months), voice training and speech training (spoken word, audiobooks, a podcast voice).
Combinations are possible, for example one block of singing, one of songwriting, one of recording.
Lessons are priced by the size of the block:
a single lesson as an affordable way in, a block of 4 as the typical monthly rhythm, a block of 10 with a discount for learning over a longer period.
Extras: private duo (two people together, +50 %), online instead of on site (same price), 90 minute appointments instead of 60.
Transparent lesson packages can also be booked directly through the studio shop. For individual enquiries, custom topics, intensive phases or gift vouchers, you get an honest assessment the same day.
Yes. Lessons are possible as an appointment on site at the studio or online by Zoom, Teams or Google Meet , and as a mix as well (three on site, one online).
On site makes sense for recording skills (a real microphone), mixing hours on studio monitors and producing on the studio computer.
Online makes sense for songwriting, theory, a long journey or for parents who want flexible times for their child without the hassle.
Yes, gladly. Private duo lessons (two people together in one hour) are possible for about +50 % , which makes sense for a parent and child, bandmates, singer-songwriter friends or a learning pair.
Both get attention and the hour gets a little fuller, but per person it still stays considerably cheaper than two individual hours.
With three or more people it becomes more of a workshop format, so have a look at the workshop page.
Yes, and it is and it is very welcome. A song of your own you are working on, a beat that does not sound right yet, lyrics that are stuck, a cover version you want in your repertoire, a current mix project: bring everything you are working on.
That is where the lessons make the most sense. With recording skills it is about your real voice or your real instrument, not about practice material from a textbook.
Appointments can be moved up to 24 hours beforehand. The hour stays in your block and I find a replacement slot together with you.
If you cancel at shorter notice (on the day itself) the hour is used up, because the slot can no longer be given to anyone else.
With a longer illness or a holiday the block can be paused, and unused hours do not expire.
One thing matters: no contract. You extend block by block, whenever it suits you.
The first audible progress usually after four to six hours (so after a month of weekly lessons): small technical improvements you can hear yourself.
A routine of your own and steadier skills after about three months.
A style of your ownthat you identify with, after six to twelve months of regular work.
Learning is not a straight line. There are phases where nothing seems to move, and then sudden jumps. That is part of it.
This page is written for private individuals, parents and private learning groups.
If the lessons are booked by a music school, a registered club, an educational institution or a company as institutional work or staff coaching, have a look at the separate business site of Tonstudio Leipzig for companies and educational providers, where there are suitable formats including invoicing and rates for larger groups.
Write me a short note about what you want to learn: singing, rap, songwriting, producing, mixing or voice and speech training. What experience you have, what your goal is, which rhythm suits you, on site or online, alone or as a pair, and whether it is meant as a gift voucher. I answer the same day with an honest assessment and a fitting suggestion. Transparent lesson packages can also be booked directly in the studio shop. You book the detailed initial consultation directly in the studio shop.