Music Lessons, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Piano, Drum, and Voice Lessons

Thanks for visiting this recently updated webpage. We have very reasonable lesson rates for the Tulsa area and are currently signing up new students for music lessons on guitar (all styles), bass guitar, drums and percussion, piano, flute, voice, banjo, and mandolin. Please look over our group of very qualified music teachers below.

Lessons are currently $15 for a 30 Minute Lesson - Paid monthly at the beginning of the month.

Stephen Aery has taught Drums at Firey Brothers Music since 2010. Although he is young in age, he has played the drums for the majority of his life with 12 years of experience. He began playing at a young age for his parents in their contemporary Christian group that traveled around the local region playing and many different churches. He maintained his membership of this ministry until the group decided to disband in 2006. He has since then been a drummer at multiple churches in the Sand Springs and West Tulsa area. The drum set is just a part of his musical life as he was a regular and frequent member of the Oklahoma elite concert and symphonic bands playing the tuba. Stephen is currently a senior at Oral Roberts University where he is studying the field of psychology for his undergraduate degree. He plans to further his education by getting his masters degree in counseling getting his LPC (License in Professional Counseling) and MFT (Marriage and Family Therapy license).

Stephen is an advocate for teaching all students how to read rhythm and music at some level. According to him “although the drum set is definitely a passion and feeling oriented instrument, being able to read written music is essential to any credibility that the player has as a musician.” He loves teaching students young and old, in fact the current student demographic spans from ages as low as age 5 or 6 to ages well above 40 and 50. We would love for you to try out Stephen as a drum instructor and see for yourself what a delight he to be around.

Peter Banfield has taught Guitar for Firey Bros. Music since 1993. Besides teaching, Peter is probably best known around the area for his work with the former rock band, The Private Eyes. His resume also includes a couple of MTV appearances, a stint on the local show “Night Shift” with a pre-Hollywood Jeanne Tripplehorn, and a sale of four songs, co-written with Matt Harris, to the Walt Disney television series “Emerald Cove.”

Just recently in August of 2011, Peter competed against almost 500 other guitar players in an online guitar solo featured on "Not Again" by the heavy metal rock band, Staind. (Staind has had multiple chart topping singles and has sold over 15 million records worldwide.) Peter's solo vaulted to the top six in a fairly short time and was voted in the top three by Staind fans worldwide on their website. However, the latest good news is that Peter won First Place and took home the Grand Prize at the Fender Freakout Guitar Competition held Saturday, October 1st at the Hard Rock Casino in Chicago. Peter walked away with the grand prize of a $10,000 music equipment shopping spree. Thanks goes to Peter's guitar student, Eric Munion, who entered Peter in the Staind and the Fender contests. Watch as Craig Day of KOTV Channel 6 interviews Peter here at the store on October 3rd. Congratulations Peter, we always knew you could do it.

Randy Brumley currently works part-time at the store and has been with Firey Bros. Music since 1998. He is a singer and songwriter and plays the guitar, steel guitar, dobro and mandolin. Randy teaches Electric & Acoustic/Fingerstyle Guitar, Voice and Songwriting as it relates to performing with Guitar.

He performs with Mitch Boulanger in a duo called "Native Son" at Tiamo Restaurant. In 2005, Randy and brother Gary were the opening acts for the G-Babes at Woodyfest. For many years he was also a writer, singer and musician in the group Square Force (along with Dart Steed) - voted Tulsa's best band in several polls. Randy has been singing since he was 5 and had 2 years of chorus in school. He also produced and hosted the Red Dirt Roundup TV Show and enjoys video production, editing and directing TV commercials. Randy has one daughter and he and his wife, Angie, live in Tulsa.

Debra Carlton has been teaching Piano and Flute at Firey Bros. Music since 2002 but her teaching experience goes back to 1992. She specializes in early childhood piano (5 years old and up). She began piano at the early age of 4 when she enrolled in Yamaha Music School. She graduated from high school with a Diploma in Piano. She then started teaching music in Early Childhood programs where she realized how much she enjoyed working with kids. She is a member of TAMTAC (Tulsa Accredited Music Teachers Association) and OMTA (Oklahoma Music Teachers Association). She also is a pianist at her church. Her students are able to participate in music festivals as well as recitals, one in the fall and one in the spring. Debra enjoys sharing her joy for music with her students.

Tony Essman has been playing bluegrass 5-string banjo since 1971. He has taught Banjo at Firey Bros. Music since 2009. Tony's banjo teachers were Adam Granger, an original member of the "Powder Milk Biscuit Band" of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show, Alan Munde, a renowned master banjoist, and many others. Tony's first job playing the banjo was in 1973 at the Dogpatch USA amusement park in Arkansas. After that, Tony taught banjo in Norman, Oklahoma, and played in various bands in the Norman area. In 1978, he was part of the Artist-in-Residence program sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts and Humanities Council which brought dancers, poets, and musicians into Oklahoma schools to inspire students. In 1979, Tony went on to a career in the computer field, but has never lost his desire to play and teach the bluegrass style of playing the 5-string banjo.

Besides this recently updated webpage, we are also working on a separate page that shows corresponding Teacher Videos. This should be ready in a few weeks. Feel free to call us should you have any questions.