You enjoy complete control of your music teaching business. MusicTeacherNotes has tools to see your monthly lesson schedule, daily music lesson schedule, and individual music lessons.

MusicTeacherNotes helps music teachers see their entire music lesson schedule in one place. If a teacher teaches for more than one music studio, all lessons show on a single calendar. This helps teachers who teach for multiple studios manage their lessons with a single account.

Opening a specific day reveals all of the students' lessons scheduled on that day. You'll see the times, the studio, the names of the student, and the instrument they are learning on a single screen, helping you know what your day entails at a glance.

Opening a specific lesson helps teachers organize and manage students' music lessons. You'll be able to review and assess the student's previous lesson, add resources or notes for the current lesson, and add assignments to practice for the next lesson.

The Lesson View is appropriate for in-person and online music lessons—everything you do in the lesson view syncs with the student's account. You can share resources like videos, weblinks, or documents. You can add notes related to each lesson. If you provide online music lessons, you can share Zoom or Skype invites so you don't need to email students anymore.

MusicTeacherNotes assists you in managing in-person and online music lessons. You can look back at what they did in their previous lessons and be better prepared for upcoming lessons. You can open a lesson, add skills for your students to practice, add notes for your students to review, and resources to help your students learn faster. Not only does all of this help you stay organized, but it helps your students get more out of their lessons.

Your scheduled music lessons display on your calendar. When you click a day in the calendar, you see a daily view of your scheduled lessons. You can click the "Open Lesson" button to manage a student's music lesson, allowing you a way to manage, share, and interact with students easily.

When you open a student's lesson, you see a view like that below. Think of this as managing this student's past, present, and future lessons.

• Past: You can view assignments from the student's previous music lesson and assess their progress.
• Present: You can share notes and resources for their current lesson.
• Future: You can add assignments for your student to work on for their next music lesson.

You can easily see the skills you assigned to a student during their previous music lesson. This feature provides you with a convenient way to prepare for a student's lesson before they show up. You can also assess their progress from their previous lesson and provide feedback if you wish.

Teachers often have notes and resources to share with students for upcoming lessons. There are several benefits that the notes and resources feature offers:

• Students can review notes and resources before a lesson, so they are better prepared when the lesson starts.
• Students can review notes and resources after a lesson, helping them remember the vital parts of the music lesson.
• If you provide online music lessons, the "notes" feature is a great place to share ZOOM or Skype invites, so you don't have to rely on email.

Notes can be anything. Resources can be videos, documents, or web links that you wish to use for a lesson. Notes and resources help you manage all of your students' music lessons.

In this example, you can see the teachers shared a ZOOM video link as a note and a video as a resource. These are just two examples that you could use notes and resources for.

If you provide online music lessons, using a note for your ZOOM or Skype invites helps you avoid the hassle of email. Students will simply open their lesson view from their MusicTeacherNotes account and click the invite link. You can create recurring invites, so you don't need to hassle with new ones for each lesson. No emailing needed!

A resource could be a video, a document, an image, or a web link. For example, suppose you teach many students from the same music book. You could record videos of yourself teaching and demonstrating the song. Then, you can save the videos to your MusicTeacherNotes Private Library. Once the videos are in your Library, you can share them as a resource when you teach the song to students. Doing this helps your students learn faster and saves you time teaching.

Adding assignments for a student's next music lesson ensures that the assignments save in one place and get added to a student's music journal. Students will see their assignments in their MusicTeacherNotes account and will be able to turn the assignments into structured practice plans, helping them practice more effectively! Students can also add their own assignments if you choose not to. Either way, students see what to practice, and when their next lesson approaches, you'll be able to see what they worked on from their previous lesson before the lesson begins.

MusicTeacherNotes lets you easily share videos, documents, and other music-related resources with your students. These tools will save you time and help your students learn faster.

For example, you can video yourself demonstrating songs out of a music book you commonly teach from, then share those videos with students whenever they are learning those songs. You can share documents, like music theory notes, with students to help them prepare for upcoming lessons ahead of time and review afterward. The options are limitless!

Every MusicTeacherNotes member has a Private Library. Your Library is where you can save videos, documents and images, and helpful web links. Everything you save to your Private Library can be shared with students, which helps you save time and helps your students get so much more from their music lessons.

Your Library is searchable. Imagine recording the songs and skills you frequently teach and having them in one place to share with students at the click of a button. Adding resources to your Library will save you time and will help your students learn skills faster.

Sharing resources with students is easy to do. Just like teachers, students and their parents also have a MusicTeacherNotes account. When you share a resource with a student, it places it in the student's Private Library. Once there, students can view the resource and more.

You can manage every aspect of a student's lesson, online or in-person. Sharing resources from your Library can be done from the Lesson Manager. Just click the "Add Resource" button and share anything from your Library to a student's lesson. The student will get a notification and have access to the resource when you do this.

When a resource is shared with a student's lesson, they can click the link provided to open the resource. They can also save it directly to their own Private Library to review later.

Resources help you teach more effectively because they save you time and they help your students learn their musical instruments faster.

MusicTeacherNotes provides an easy way to manage the payments, charges, and other financial transactions related to your music school. You can easily see who owes you money and provide them with invoices, so you get paid on time.

Never wonder who owes money and who doesn't. See the family balances for every student you teach in one place.

Instantly see any family's transaction history. You'll be able to quickly see:

• payments
• charges (lesson charges and other charges)
• credits
• refunds
• discounts

A quick glance will tell whether or not you are owed money by every family you provide music lessons for.

You can view and search all of your students' transactions, saving you time and aggravation.

See the invoices you've sent to students. Invoices are a simple way to ensure that you are paid on time.

You can customize your invoices for each of your students. You can send invoices to your students' or their parents' email via a PDF attachment, or you can print them out.

Every teacher who joins MusicTeacherNotes is automatically given a directory listing. A directory listing helps your business show up in search engines, such as Google. Potential students who find you via the Music Teacher Directory can also see when you are available to teach lessons, and they can request lessons from you online. The benefits are that you get free advertising for students, and you get notified when a potential new student wishes to request music lessons.

Get found more often on Google, for free!

Finding new music students is an ongoing challenge for music teachers. One of the most effective ways to get more students is to show up on Google when potential students search for nearby music teachers. The more you show up in Google, the better your odds of getting found. This is why a music teacher directory listing is so helpful. Your directory listing is specifically optimized to show up in Google for important keywords that will help drive new students to you.

Your directory listing is entirely free. You do not need to upgrade to a Premium account to have a directory listing. All you need to do is register a free account.

There are certain skills that all music students need to learn. It takes a lot of effort to teach the basics to every student. This is where video can help. You can create videos showing the most common songs and fundamental skills you teach. Then, you can share those videos with students whenever they are ready to learn that skill. This saves you a lot of time while also helping your students become better musicians.

Creating clips from your videos is a great way to help students. Clipping a song into multiple segments allows students to focus on specific parts of a song. You can create clips, or your students can do it from their accounts. Once a clip is created, students can play along with the clip on repeat, again and again. The benefit for students is they get a lot more practice on the parts of a song that they need to work on. The benefit for you is that your students become better musicians who are more likely to become long-term students.

MusicTeacherNotes takes learning a musical instrument via video to a new level. When students playback a video of you demonstrating a song, they can adjust the tempo to their skill level and play along until they can do it without mistakes. Then, they can increase the tempo on the video and continue doing that until they master the song. MusicTeacherNotes software automatically maintains the song's original key, even as the tempo is slowed down or sped up. Students can also make the video loop to get a lot more practice in a fraction of the time.

Staying connected with students is essential for a music teacher. If you don't have a way of reaching students easily, you risk losing them when they "take a break" from music lessons. No music lesson software package is complete without a robust messaging system.

MusicTeacherNotes' messaging system helps you engage in email marketing and reminders. You can use the messaging feature to send periodic newsletters to your students, letting them know about important updates related to their music lessons. You can also use it to alert students about upcoming events, such as recitals, schedule changes, or other important information.

You can send a message to a single student or multiple students simultaneously. The messaging system lets you quickly filter by a student's name or the instruments they are learning. For example, suppose you want to schedule a message to only your piano students. MusicTeacherNotes makes it easy to do that!

When you send a message via MusicTeacherNotes, it automatically gets emailed to all of your connected students with MusicTeacherNotes family accounts. Not only does the message get sent to their email, but it also shows in their account, which they will see when they log in. Using MusicTeacherNotes as your music school management system makes it nearly impossible for students to miss messages because students will see their messages as they routinely use the website.

You can send the message immediately or schedule it for a time in the future. For example, if you have a recital coming, you could schedule a few similar reminder messages spaced out over several days. MusicTeacherNotes messaging system makes staying in touch with students and parents easy!

MusicTeacherNotes' Availability Calendar is a time-saving tool for music teachers that helps acquire new students and keep existing students. The Availability Calendar displays when you are available to teach lessons. It uses the hours you designate that you wish to teach, as well as your currently scheduled students. The Availability Calendar helps you find new students because it is designed to show up on Google and other search engines. This means students can find you online, see when you are available to provide lessons, and request lessons from you. It also helps you keep existing students because they can see when spots open that they may prefer over their current schedule. This means they can improve their schedule, which ultimately makes it easier for them to continue with music lessons.

The Availability Calendar allows potential music students to quickly see when you are available to provide music lessons. The benefit is that students are much more likely to schedule a music lesson because they can easily pick the best time that works for their situation. Another benefit is that it saves you time because you don't have to ask students when they want lessons; the students find available times that work before they request a lesson from you.

Once students decide to take music lessons from you, they can use your Availability Calendar to search for the best time to schedule their lessons. They will see when you are available or unavailable and be able to find an acceptable time for music lessons without having to call you. If a student does call you, you can text or email them a link to your Availability Calendar to pick their preferred lesson times. The benefit is that students choose a time that is likely to work well for them, and you don't have to invest time in helping them with this task.

Students can request lessons from the Availability Calendar. You will see the requested music lesson times and can schedule them as appropriate for your situation. Don't worry. You have complete control of your schedule. Students can request lessons and times, but it is ultimately you (the music teacher) who schedules the lessons.

When students request lessons from your Availability Calendar, you get notified in your MusicTeacherNotes account and via email. You can see all of the details you need to schedule the student's lessons and contact them to finalize. This helps you capture more new students because students are a lot more likely to request lessons from you if they can see when you are available.

Being unprepared for your students' lessons is a surefire way to lose students. When you are prepared for a student's upcoming lesson, it shows your student that you care and have a plan to help them move to the next step. Being prepared for a lesson helps students get the most out of the short time they are in a music lesson. MusicTeacherNotes helps teachers prepare for upcoming lessons before students show up.

A student's journal is a list of the music assignments you've given them for each lesson. The benefit of using MusicTeacherNotes' music journal is that their assignments are saved electronically. This means you can quickly and easily review what they've worked on before they show for a lesson. In just a few minutes you'll know right where they left off, and you can then get them ready for the next skill.

The Lesson Manager helps you organize all aspects of a student's music lesson. When you open a student's lesson in the Lesson Manager, you see a view like that below. You can view their assignments from their previous lesson, you can share notes and resources for their current lesson, and you can add assignments for them to practice for their next lesson. The Lesson Manager on your teacher account syncs with the student's account, so they see the feedback, notes, resources, and assignments you gave them.

You can easily see the skills you assigned students during their previous music lesson, allowing you to easily prepare for students' lessons before they show up. You can also assess their lessons and give feedback if you wish.

Teachers often have notes and resources they want to share with students for upcoming lessons. MusicTeacherNotes makes that easy to do. Notes can be anything. If you provide online music lessons, the "notes" feature is a great place to share ZOOM or Skype links. Resources can be videos, documents, or web links that you wish to use for a lesson.

In this example, you can see the teachers shared a ZOOM video link as a note and a video as a resource. Using notes for your ZOOM or Skype links helps you avoid having to share meeting invites via email. Students will simply open their lessons from their MusicTeacherNotes accounts and click the meeting links. No emailing is needed! If you share a resource, students can review the resource before the lesson begins so they can be ready when the lesson starts.

Adding assignments for a student's next music lesson is easy. Students see the assignments on their own accounts and can even turn the assignments into structured practice plans, so they practice more! Students can also add their own assignments, in case you forget or choose not to. Either way, students see what to practice, and you see what they worked on from their previous lesson.

MusicTeacherNotes offers several tools for parents and children that help motivate younger children to practice for music lessons.

Parents can set up rewards for their children, which children can "buy" as they accrue Music Bucks from practicing. Rewards can be anything parents wish: movie night, a sleep over, more screen time. Parents can assign Music Buck prices for the rewards they add, and as kids accrue Music Bucks, the kids can redeem a reward, as needed.

The Practice Plan Creator on MusicTeacherNotes empowers parents to create structured practice plans for their children's music practice. It provides clear guidelines for skills, practice duration, and practice days, ensuring focused and organized practice sessions. With a well-defined plan, children have a sense of direction, leading to increased comprehension, confidence, and efficiency in their practice. Parents can actively engage in shaping their children's practice habits, fostering consistency and progress in their musical development.

Music Bucks are a reward system on MusicTeacherNotes that motivates children to practice music. By logging their practice time, children earn Music Bucks, which can be exchanged for rewards of their choice. This incentivizes regular practice and creates a sense of accomplishment. Music Bucks help children stay engaged, motivated, and committed to their music practice, making it a fun and rewarding experience.

Practice Stickers are a recognition system on MusicTeacherNotes that rewards children for their musical achievements. As children complete practice goals or reach milestones, they earn colorful virtual stickers. These stickers serve as a visual representation of their progress and accomplishments, boosting their confidence and motivating them to continue practicing. Practice Stickers provide a fun and engaging way for children to track and celebrate their growth in music, encouraging a sense of pride and dedication to their musical journey.

The sticker games on MusicTeacherNotes serve as a motivating factor for children's music practice. As children earn virtual stickers through their practice efforts, they can use these stickers to unlock and play interactive sticker games. These games provide a fun and enjoyable experience, while incentivizing them to continue logging practice. By combining practice with game-like elements, the sticker games motivate children to practice more consistently and fostering a positive and engaging approach to music learning.

Achievement Awards on MusicTeacherNotes act as a powerful motivator for children's music practice. As students complete their practice plan goals, they earn these awards as recognition for their accomplishments. Achievement Awards provide a sense of achievement, pride, and a tangible representation of progress. They serve as a reminder of the hard work and dedication put into their music practice, inspiring children to continue their efforts and strive for further success. The awards act as a source of motivation, encouraging children to stay committed to their musical journey and fostering a sense of accomplishment in their musical development.

Discover a whole new dimension of musical learning with MusicTeacherNotes' incredible video tools. Our platform provides students with the opportunity to record their teacher's demonstrations and save instructional videos from YouTube directly into their personal Library. With the Library, students can easily access and review these valuable resources anytime they want. Whether it's replaying a specific technique, practicing alongside their favorite musicians, or exploring new musical styles, our video tools empower students to enhance their skills, deepen their understanding, and embark on an engaging and immersive musical journey. With MusicTeacherNotes' video tools, the possibilities for musical growth and inspiration are limitless.

Recording your music lessons and saving them in your Private Library is a powerful tool for accelerating your learning. By capturing your teacher's demonstrations and instructions on video, you can revisit them whenever you need to. You can easily upload the videos to your Library, where they will be securely stored and organized. This way, you can search for specific videos and watch them again to reinforce your understanding and practice more effectively. With MusicTeacherNotes, you have a valuable resource at your fingertips, helping you progress faster on your musical journey.

MusicTeacherNotes provides a valuable feature that allows students to save YouTube videos directly to their Library. This functionality offers immense benefits to students as they can access a vast array of tutorials and demonstrations available on YouTube. By saving these videos, students have the convenience of revisiting them at any time, allowing for repeated practice and reinforcement of concepts taught in the lessons. It enables students to learn from different instructors and gain additional insights and perspectives on playing techniques, musical interpretations, and repertoire. This resourceful tool expands the learning opportunities for students, enhancing their musical growth and development.

One of the valuable features offered by MusicTeacherNotes is the ability for students to clip and save videos of their teacher demonstrating a song. This feature provides significant benefits to students as it allows them to focus on specific sections or techniques that they find challenging. By clipping the relevant portions, students can create personalized practice materials tailored to their needs, enabling them to efficiently work on and master specific aspects of the song. This targeted approach not only saves time but also enhances their learning experience by providing them with a concentrated practice tool that they can revisit as needed. The ability to clip videos empowers students to take ownership of their learning journey and make the most out of their practice sessions.

The ability to clip YouTube videos offers numerous benefits for students. By using MusicTeacherNotes' clipping feature, students can pinpoint specific sections of a video tutorial that are relevant to their learning needs. This allows them to focus on those specific parts, replay them as many times as necessary, and gain a deeper understanding of the content. Clipping videos also enables students to create personalized study materials, tailored to their preferences and pace of learning. This feature promotes efficient and effective practice sessions by providing students with a customized learning experience. Whether it's mastering a challenging technique or revisiting a complex musical passage, the ability to clip YouTube videos empowers students to optimize their learning and make steady progress in their musical journey.

The ability to loop videos provides significant benefits for students. With MusicTeacherNotes' looping feature, students can repeat specific sections of a video tutorial effortlessly. This repetition allows them to focus on the details, practice along with the video, and reinforce their understanding and muscle memory. Looping is particularly helpful when learning complex musical passages, intricate rhythms, or challenging techniques. It enables students to break down the material into smaller segments, master each part gradually, and gradually build up their skills. By looping videos, students can engage in deliberate and targeted practice, leading to improved accuracy, fluency, and overall performance. It is a valuable tool that promotes efficient learning and helps students make consistent progress in their musical development.

The ability to slow down the tempo of uploaded videos or YouTube videos offers significant benefits for students. By adjusting the tempo to a slower pace, students can effectively practice and play along with the video at a more comfortable speed. This feature allows them to focus on difficult passages, intricate rhythms, or complex techniques, giving them the opportunity to develop accuracy and control. Slowing down the tempo also helps students break down challenging musical sections, allowing them to better understand the nuances and gradually build up their skills. It promotes a deeper level of comprehension, aids in mastering difficult passages, and enhances overall playing proficiency. With the flexibility to control the tempo, students can tailor their practice sessions to their individual needs, ensuring steady progress in their musical journey.

With MusicTeacherNotes' Practice Plan Creator, parents and students can quickly generate a structured practice plan that can be used for the entire week leading up to the next lesson. Taking just a few minutes to create, this plan provides a clear roadmap for productive practice sessions. It instills a sense of accountability and motivation, especially when combined with the rewarding Music Bucks system. Whether for younger or older students, following this well-organized practice plan ensures efficient use of practice time, fostering consistent progress and success in their musical journey.

Teachers have the ability to assign practice tasks for upcoming lessons, or students and parents can do it themselves from their family account. Furthermore, the practice plan creator allows the inclusion of repertoire songs, custom skills, or previous skills to focus on. Within seconds, all the necessary skills can be incorporated into the practice plan, ensuring a comprehensive and well-rounded practice session. This feature streamlines the process and empowers students to efficiently organize their practice routine, maximizing their progress and optimizing their learning experience.

After adding songs and skills to the practice plan, you have the option to track each goal based on either minutes or repetitions. If you choose repetitions, you'll be prompted to estimate the time it takes for each repetition. For instance, if a song takes approximately 2 minutes to play, you would set it as 1 repetition equals 2 minutes. MusicTeacherNotes handles the calculations when you later set the goals for the duration of practice for each skill in the plan. This feature simplifies the process of tracking progress and helps ensure that students allocate sufficient time to practice each skill effectively.

After selecting the songs and skills for the practice plan, you will set goals by determining the number of minutes to be practiced each day. If you opt for tracking a skill by repetitions instead of minutes, the system will automatically convert the minutes to repetitions during this step. Additionally, you will choose the specific days for the practice sessions, typically spanning from the day after a lesson to the day before the next lesson. This feature streamlines the process of setting practice goals, ensuring that students have a structured and consistent practice routine between lessons.

You have the option to print the practice plan as a hardcopy, which can be used as a checklist during music practice sessions. Afterwards, you can conveniently log the practice later when you log in to your MusicTeacherNotes account. This feature allows for a tangible and organized way to track progress and ensure that practice sessions are recorded accurately.

The practice plan is visible on your family calendar, with incomplete days shown in orange and complete days in green. When all the days of a practice plan turn green, it indicates completion. To see the details for a practice plan, click on ay of the green or orange days on your calendar for the applicable student. MusicTeacherNotes offers easy ways to log practice, even if you fall behind, ensuring that you can stay on track and maintain progress.

Logging practice from a practice plan is the key to earning Music Bucks, stickers, and Achievement Awards. These motivational rewards are especially effective in encouraging younger children to practice their musical instruments. By recording their practice sessions, students not only track their progress but also unlock tangible incentives that make practicing more enjoyable and rewarding.

When you sign up your family on MusicTeacherNotes, you can include every family member, including parents and students, at no additional cost. Each family member will have their own unique login. Parents have full visibility and control over the platform, while children have special themes tailored to motivate their music practice.

Children having their own login on MusicTeacherNotes brings several benefits. Firstly, it instills a sense of ownership and responsibility in their music practice journey. They can actively engage with their personalized child accounts, tracking their progress, earning rewards like Music Bucks and stickers, and exploring motivational features. Having their own login also promotes independence and self-motivation, as they can interact with practice plans created by their parents, log their practice sessions, and view resources shared by their music teachers. This sense of autonomy fosters a positive learning experience, empowering children to take charge of their musical growth and stay motivated throughout their musical journey.

Parents can manage their children's accounts from the parent login, or, if they wish, they can login as their child and see everything their child sees. Parents being able to access child accounts from their parent account on MusicTeacherNotes offers numerous benefits. It allows parents to have a comprehensive overview of their children's progress, practice routines, and achievements, providing valuable insights into their musical development. With this access, parents can actively support and guide their children in their music practice, monitor their practice sessions, and provide feedback or encouragement as needed. Additionally, parents can help manage the rewards system by tracking Music Bucks, stickers, and Achievement Awards earned by their children, reinforcing positive reinforcement and motivation. By having this level of involvement and access, parents can effectively collaborate with their children in their musical journey and provide the necessary support for their growth and success.

The Rewards Page on MusicTeacherNotes offers several benefits for children. It allows them to view and track their Music Bucks, stickers, and Achievement Awards in one place, providing a sense of accomplishment and motivation for their music practice. The Music Bucks can be accumulated and redeemed for rewards set by their parents, creating an incentive for consistent and dedicated practice. The stickers earned serve as visual representations of their progress and achievements, showcasing their hard work and dedication. Furthermore, the Achievement Awards, earned for completing full practice plans, including the Perfect Practice Award received each week, further reinforce the importance of consistent practice and provide a sense of pride for their musical accomplishments. Overall, the Rewards Page serves as a tangible and exciting way for children to see the results of their efforts, fostering a positive and rewarding experience in their musical journey.

The dashboard on MusicTeacherNotes provides children with valuable insights into their music practice. They can easily access stats that show how much time they have practiced and how much more they need to complete their practice plan. These stats act as a visual guide, helping children track their progress and stay motivated to achieve their practice goals. By having this information readily available, children can take ownership of their practice routine, making adjustments as needed to ensure they reach their targets. The ability to see their practice stats on the dashboard empowers children to actively participate in their musical development, fostering a sense of responsibility and self-awareness in their practice habits.

The ability for children to view the practice plan from their child accounts brings several advantages on MusicTeacherNotes. By accessing the practice plan, children can have a clear and organized outline of what they need to practice. They can easily refer to the plan, ensuring they cover all the assigned songs and skills. This promotes structure and focus during practice sessions, helping them stay on track and make progress. Additionally, viewing the practice plan empowers children to take ownership of their learning journey and track their own practice milestones. They can monitor their progress, see which areas they have mastered, and identify areas that may require more attention. This visibility fosters a sense of responsibility and achievement, motivating children to stay committed to their music practice and strive for continuous improvement.