What's New at Tritone

Video Helps for Tritone Piano Method

Please visit our YouTube channel to learn about our books and also some practice tips. Those would be a big practice help especially for new students!
Clip 1: Greetings!
Clip 10: Section 2 and Beyond
​Click here to visit our YouTube channel

New!Piano Lab Opened!

Monthly fee: $30 for students who take lessons/classes
                         $60 for students who enroll Piano Lab only
Open time : 5:30-6pm, 7-8pm Monday to Friday
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One session is 30-min long, and a lab assistant will help students with structured practice. First 10 min for Music Math Drill, second 10 for note spelling/Beyer, and last 10 min for Song Book. The assistant teacher will be also available to help on materials and answer questions. Students must own/bring the Tritone Piano Method books. Students must be old enough not to distract other students and be able to focus a 30-min session.

Other instrumentalists who would like learn basic keyboard skills are also welcomed to our piano lab. ​​Practice Lab is open 7 to 8pm Monday to Thursday. Sign up whenever you would like to come. Please reserve a keyboard online ahead of time. 
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Greetings from Tom and Chieko!

At the Ravenia Frank Sinatra Jr concert
We are professional musicians who live in Arlington Heights. For many years, we have been performing, recording and teaching all over the Chicago area and the world at venues from music clubs, to schools, to large concert halls. Through our experiences, we feel that we have developed a unique approach and philosophy to teaching music, and we enjoy sharing that approach with our students!  (Read more about our goals Here)
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​We hope we will see you at our school! Chieko and Tom Garling
Our owners write for jazz big bands. 
Tom Garling leads a Chicago-based all star band, the Tom Garling Jazz Orchestra
Studio C with Mason & Hamlin
We offer Suzuki Method for strings

Academic Calendar

9/2/2019 Closed for Labor Day
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Studio A : Guitar Studio
Studio E : Drum Studio
​Our school is located on "Music & Art Row" (Arthur Ave) in Arlington Heights
Our building is conveniently located close to Mount Prospect, Palatine, Elk Grove Village, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg,  Buffalo Grove, Wheeling, Des Plaines, and Hoffman Estates. Please refer us to your friends who live in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and we hope to see you there!
Studio B with Yamaha G1
Studio D with Baldwin Grand Piano

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Tritone Piano Series
​Tritone Music School proudly uses our own unique method books, which has been developed by Chieko and Tom Garling along with other teachers who have been delivering lessons at our school. This method teaches students to make the connection between the pitches (what you hear) and the theory (what you know). As a result, reading and memorizing becomes easier, and music becomes much more personal, joyful and fulfilling. This skill makes the possibilities endless. Many of our students are good composers/arrangers! Please contact us for more details.