Akshit Deshmukh teaching a small group of children to play guitar in a sunlit room in Pune

A year-long music program · Pune · ages 7–14

A relationship with music that outlasts the lessons.

The Long Play is one year of real music for your child — guitar, songwriting, and studio-grade recording. Taught by one musician who knows every child by name. Play first. Read later.

Talk to Akshit on WhatsApp See the year
"There's more creativity in doing it myself."

— Deana, 11, after closing an AI app that offered to write her a song.
The Long Play was built around that sentence.

What your child actually does

Not a class they attend. A thing they make.

A child learning guitar one-to-one with Akshit
01 · PLAY

They play

Weekly one-to-one guitar, built around the music your child wants to play — not a syllabus. Technique and reading arrive later, when the music asks for them.

Students playing together at a recording and performance session
02 · MAKE

They make

Songwriting and studio-grade production. By the end of the year, your child has a real recording they made themselves — their first record, kept as proof.

A group of young musicians playing together outdoors at a Song Pod
03 · BELONG

They belong

Monthly Song Pods with other kids, immersive camps, and a year-end showcase on a real stage. Music becomes something they do with people, for life.

Children and teenagers playing guitars together in a circle outdoors at a Long Play jam session in Pune

The year

The year starts when your child starts.

Children join any month. Nothing here is a term you can miss. This is what happens for every child, counted from their first lesson with me.

Week 1
The first lesson. The guitar comes out of its case and stays out, where they can see it.
Weeks 2 – 6
They pick their song. The one they want to play by the end of the year.
From month 3
Their first time on a stage. At the next performance in the diary.
Months 5 – 7
We record their song. Finished and put out properly. Their name on it.
Month 12
Everything they made this year, in one place. Then we talk about next year.

The studio's calendar — workshops, jams, Song Pods, performances — is fixed a year ahead. See the year →

Akshit Deshmukh laughing with a ukulele during a Long Play session, a student playing beside him

The teacher

"Music, not just guitar."

Taught by one person. Who knows every child by name.

Akshit Deshmukh is a Pune musician who teaches the way he wishes he'd been taught. He dropped out of school, found one teacher who believed in him, and decided to become that teacher. He records and produces from his own studio — so the music your child makes is real, not a toy.

He takes a small group, on purpose. The Long Play is built so the studio stands on its own — but for now, it's him, and he wants to know your child.

Hear his students

What parents say

Confidence first. The rest follows.

"Self-confidence — if you have that, academics you can figure out. We want to see confidence first."

— A Long Play parent, Pune

"She won't just play guitar. She should know how to produce, sing, and perform."

— A Long Play parent, Pune

"Guitar practice is the first thing she does after school. She runs to it."

— A Long Play parent, Pune

A small group · 8–10 children this year

Give your child a year that ends with something real.

I take a small group each year — never more than 25 children, and eight to ten this year. Talk to me before you decide anything.

Message Akshit on WhatsApp See fees & options