What Makes My Music Studio Different
A product design perspective
When music teachers choose studio software, they are usually comparing feature lists: scheduling, billing, attendance, messaging. Most platforms offer roughly the same surface capabilities.
My Music Studio was designed around a different question:
What does a music teaching system need to get right over the long term — for teachers, students, and families — if it is going to be trusted as part of the learning process?
The answer has shaped not only what the product does, but how it is designed, constrained, and evolved.
Designed around teaching, not just administration
Administrative tools matter. Scheduling, invoices, and communication are essential for running a studio. But administration is not the core activity of a music teacher — teaching is.
Many platforms are designed primarily as business systems that happen to be used by teachers. My Music Studio was designed in the opposite direction: starting from the flow of a lesson, and then building administration around that flow rather than in competition with it.
This shows up in small but important ways:
The system is intentionally shaped to support how lessons actually run, not just how records are kept.
Lesson notes as an active learning space
In many studio platforms, lesson notes are little more than a text field: useful for record-keeping, but passive for students.
My Music Studio treats lesson notes as a teaching surface, not a storage area.
Notes can include structured, interactive elements such as:
From a design standpoint, this reflects a clear choice: lesson notes are not just about learning — they are part of the learning experience.
This approach supports continuity between lessons and gives students a clear, practical bridge between what happens in the studio and what happens at home.
Administration that supports learning outcomes
The platform still includes scheduling, invoicing, and communication — but these tools are designed to support teaching, not dominate it.
For example:
The goal is not simply to save time, but to reduce friction between administrative tasks and teaching decisions.
A deliberately usable Free Forever plan
A common pattern in education software is to advertise a “free” tier that is too limited to be meaningful, forcing an early upgrade.
My Music Studio takes a different stance. The Free Forever plan is designed to be genuinely usable: a teacher can run an entire studio on it without artificial restrictions.
This is a design decision, not a pricing trick. It reflects two underlying principles:
Paid plans exist for automation, convenience, and advanced features — not for basic viability.
Designed for safety, clarity, and long-term trust
Beyond visible features, many of the most important design differences are structural and intentional, even if they are not immediately obvious.
The system is built around:
These constraints are not about complexity for its own sake. They exist because education software carries responsibility: student data, family access, and teaching records all require careful stewardship over time.
The product is designed to grow cautiously, with guardrails that prioritise correctness and safety over rapid expansion.
A different emphasis by design
Most studio software focuses primarily on administration. My Music Studio aims to make administration painless — but also to strengthen the educational side of teaching.
The difference is not just in individual features, but in the underlying approach:
That philosophy guides how the product is built, how features are added, and how trust is earned over time.
My Music Studio is designed to support real teaching, not just manage records — with tools that respect both educators and learners.