About Studio 46

The Studio 46 Music Study Center is located in Hackettstown, New Jersey. After renovating an old movie theatre and building studio rehearsal units, we first opened our doors in 1987, with only two instructors and a few dozen students.

We are the first music school in the area to be founded as a school system, not as an addendum to a retail music dealership or a "rock school philosophy". We remain  different because music education has always been and will always remain our primary goal. We offer a wide variety of study programs on most instruments and voice. Our instructors are among the finest in the area; many with over thirty years teaching experience! And our staff is united in one key way: Our love of teaching the Music Arts. We are not bound by a bigger organization with programs and methods (often at ridiculous costs). WE DO NOT OFFER A CURRICULUM that requires special instruments or methodologies... no special classes that promise so much and yield so little.

The staff at Studio 46 takes the time to teach EACH STUDENT AS AN INDIVIDUAL. Our add-on classes in theory and technique are recommended ONLY when the student is ready for them and ONLY if the student wants them! In effect, we offer the most customizable music education available and we keep the cost low for an excellent music education by doing so!

If you have some experience in music and your instrument, Studio 46 makes it possible to study key areas of your musicianship with low-cost private instruction, rather than classroom studies! For example, a keyboardist can take private lessons in chord approaches and fake-book reading, or a guitarist can study specific areas of technique such as finger-picking or whammy-bar techniques with a simple enrollment for private studies. As an alternative, low-cost classes for these disciplines are available for already enrolled students who wish to add them in addition to their private lessons.

Our unique approach to music education offers any student of music the most variety in customization of their individual goals as a musician at the lowest cost available.

Whether a prospective student is a total beginner. an amateur musician, or a semi-pro, we can accommodate you, even if it means making a referral to an instructor that is not part of our school.

Our students have gone on with their careers: Some are college professors of music, some are working in sound design and composition in video games and in Hollywood. Some are touring with their bands, and some are teaching independently. Many of our students who are teaching independently have been actively sought after by our competitors in NW NJ area. In fact, many local studios and schools seek out our current staff.

Fact is: We do not make guitar heroes or rock stars. We don't make divas or virtuosos. Our students, using the tools and instruction we provide make THEMSELVES the next generation of artists. That is what music education is about!

Bob Pomicter, Jr.

Proprietor: Studio 46 Music Study Center