If you have a website and it’s not on page one of Google, here are three things you can do right now to improve your ranking and get more more students. If you’re not familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), let me get you up to speed first. SEO is the process of maximizing the number of visi… Read More

There’s no doubt you’ve heard about COVID-19. Originating in China earlier this year, it’s been spreading alarmingly quickly to countries all around the globe. We hope that you, wherever you’re reading this from, have stayed healthy and are taking the proper precautions to stay that way! We’re heari… Read More

Music is a vital part of life for many people, and always has been. It’s a part of our history, constantly changing - so much so that it’s easy to identify a time period based on its music. And for as long as music has been passed down, there has been music education, our way of keeping musical trad… Read More

You have a website, right? If so, how is it? Is it comprehensive? SEO friendly? Does it clearly convey who you are to newcomers and draw them in? (And if you don’t have a website, you really should make one!) Your website will be your most valuable marketing tool in this day and age. It’s the modern… Read More

Want to get started teaching online after reading Why Remote Music Lessons? Here’s a quick list of things you’ll want to consider before starting: 1. Do you have good internet service? You’ll undoubtedly need a quick, reliable connection to internet for this to work. If you live in a rural area, you… Read More

If you are a musician or working on becoming one, you need to be recording yourself. It doesn’t matter if you’re just learning, a holiday performer for your family, or a concert musician. Incorporating recording into your practice can only help you, and it’s a totally inexpensive (if not free) way t… Read More

For a typical music school, 80 percent of students are youths. This means families are involved. Families are invested (in their child's growth but also... financially). They are the ones who pick up, drop off, sit through lessons, figure out the assignments and make sure their kids practice during … Read More

I’ve always been a paper-and-pen person. I took notes by hand all throughout college and printed all of my music - even though my backpack was a black hole of loose papers and I had a tablet that worked perfectly fine. I’d go into gigs with my trusty folder, barely holding together at the corners an… Read More

The advance of technology has gotten a bit of a bad rap lately with the killer robot movies and technology-is-going-to-take-your-jobs mentality. I’m not saying those aren’t legitimate fears (it’s already becoming all too real) - but there are ways to leverage what’s available and appealing to the yo… Read More

Whether you’re trying to be eco-friendly or not, going paperless (or using less paper in general) can benefit you in so many ways. You reduce your waste, you’re more organized (stacks of papers vs. an easily searchable database), and children these days are digital natives anyway. Also, students who… Read More

Tired of iPhone auto-correcting ‘Gmaj’ into ‘Gmail’? Wish you could easily type accidentals and chord symbols? Like, how awesome would it be if you could just summon “ø” instead of typing out “half diminished” every time? It would be super awesome. And, good news - it’s super easy to implement. I’ve… Read More

You may have been hearing the term “flipped classrooms” - but what is it exactly? Traditionally, a student goes into the classroom to learn, then practices the newly learned skills at home. With a flipped classroom, just the opposite happens. The student learns the material (to the best of their abi… Read More

A lot of the time, teachers become disorganized. And when we're disorganized, we may do things like forget who’s learning what or what we even taught at the last lesson with this student (what was his name again?). If this has happened to you, there's no shame in raising your hand because we have an… Read More

Generation Z. Whether we love them or hate them, they are our students today and the leaders of tomorrow. They were born into a fast-paced, technology-dependent world that’s rapidly changing before our eyes. So why are teachers still teaching the same way as 20, even 10 years ago? Part of this may s… Read More

I often have those “Aha!” moments (or “Duh!” moments) where I think of the perfect assignment for a student to work on, or I realize I forgot to mention a key point - right as they walk out the door, assignment notebook and all. I’ll email the parents about it when the day is done, I note (my next s… Read More