Building a Musical Community
Moore Brothers Music's mission is to build a musical community. After seeing our 5 year anniversary concert last summer, we feel we're on the right track. Over and over, we heard comments like "I can't believe how talented these kids are." We have tried to provide the best instructors to give a solid musical education to each of our students in their private lessons. In the past, we have provided group rock camps and we're looking to do that again soon.
Looking ahead, we're building relationships with the local schools to make sure they have the resources they need in their music programs. We're very excited to see that the Boys and Girls Club will be moving into the old library building across the street with a stage and recording studio. We are in the process of building online tools to bring musicians together to form bands and to find local venues to perform.
Please let us know how we're doing and help keep us informed on the musical events in the community.
Scott and Troy Moore
Store Hours
We are open 7 days a week. All hours are pacific time.
| Sunday | 11:00am - 5:00pm |
| Monday | 11:00am - 8:00pm |
| Tuesday | 11:00am - 8:00pm |
| Wednesday | 11:00am - 8:00pm |
| Thursday | 11:00am - 8:00pm |
| Friday | 11:00am - 7:00pm |
| Saturday | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
history
Moore Brothers Music opened its doors in August 2004 by brothers Scott and Troy Moore. Troy had been teaching guitar for over a decade at music stores and from his home for over a decade. Troy had also been playing for a country band and doing a lot of studio recording as a full-time musician. Scott had been playing drums for various groups while working full-time as an accountant and systems analyst for the wireless telecom industry. Both Scott and Troy have business degrees from Central Washington University.
Both Scott and Troy grew up taking years of private lessons for their Instruments. Their father bought Scott a drumset when he was 7 years old from a co-worker and jazz drummer, Mike Padden. Mike told him not to let Scott start playing drums until he was 10 "when his coordination would come in." Scott looked at his drumset for 3 years in the garage attic waiting patiently to play it someday. Lessons began soon after his tenth birthday and continued throughout his teens with several different instructors. All the while, he played drums for every opportunity at school, concert band, jazz band, jazz choir, and marching band. Scott played in his first rock band at 17 practicing every night after school. The band won the Redmond High School Battle of the Bands, recorded a couple of demo tapes, and performed in their first bar that year. One of the guitarists would go upstairs after rehearsals to take a guitar lesson from Troy who was only 14 at the time.
Troy started playing electric guitar when he was 9 years old and really didn't put much effort into practicing for well over the first year of lessons. Then something amazing happened almost overnight: you would never again see Troy without his guitar around his neck. He slept with his guitar, he ate with his guitar, he copied everything he saw on MTV. Troy started analyzing the guitar neck, writing out all the possible and impossible ways to play different chords across the entire neck. He sought out certain instructors that could take him to the next level. Once Scott started driving, he would be driving Troy once a week from their home in Redmond to Edmonds to his guitar lessons.
The Moore brothers first discussed the idea of starting a music store in 2000. They spent the next several years putting together a business plan and investigating locations all across the puget sound region. They decided on the Sammamish location after Troy had moved to a condo in Sammamish and quickly built his private lesson business to 60 students a week out of his home.
Knowing the caliber of instructors for which he was looking, Troy started with a small team of the best instructors he could find and 4 private lesson rooms in a small 1100 sq ft store. Within a couple months, the largest room was divided in half to make another lesson room to keep up with demand. Scott kept his day job at T-Mobile during the first six months of business until the student count reached 200 per week. During those first six months, Scott, Troy, and their wives, Cristie and Lorien, were each working nearly 80 hours a week at multiple jobs to jump start the new business. Once Scott and Troy were both working full-time at the store, they both handed off their remaining students to other instructors and focused solely on running the business.
Soon after, in the summer of 2005, the Moore brothers completed their first expansion without ever stopping operations to add another 500 sq ft of retail space and 2 more lesson rooms bringing the total to 7 private lesson rooms and 1 large classroom / retail room. The large room allowed them to teach rock camps and group lessons the next two summers.
By early 2008, Moore Brothers Music was teaching over 500 private lessons per week and was using the large retail room 3 days a week for private lessons. That summer, they completed a major redesign of the store removing the large room, adding 2 more lesson rooms, carpeting the entire floor, doubling the lighting, and adding displays. At the same time, they put a fresh coat of paint throughout the store and lesson rooms and had the carpets cleaned (spilling a gallon of black paint necessitated this).
In the fall of 2008, Moore Brothers Music hired its first permanent employee, Sasha Robinson. Sasha has made a significant impact making sure the store is kept organized. She brought nearly a decade of customer service experience with her and it shows as she juggles customer lesson payments and scheduling and phone calls effortlessly.
Current
Scott and Troy are dedicating 2009 to their presence online. Moore Brothers Music has only had an embarrassing simple, single, and out-of-date page for a website up until now. What you see here is the beginning of something we intend to be a significant part of our business. Our ECommerce site was finally launched in early November and we added an event calendar. Soon to come are video product demonstrations and many more products online. We're constantly trying to improve the appearance, functionality, and features of our website.