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How to get the best out of a music competition

A practical approach to competition prep: clarify musical priorities, teach useful feedback language, and train students to respond constructively to adjudication.

Improve Your Teaching with My Music Studio: The Tools That Boost Learning and Reduce Admin

How My Music Studio’s digital tools reduce admin friction, lighten your cognitive load, and directly improve lesson quality and student progress.

Ten Ways To Grow Your Teaching Business and Earn More (And the Tools You Need Along the Way)

A practical, tool-focused guide to growing your teaching business steadily, from first students through to multi-teacher studios.

How My Music Studio Supports Teachers at Every Career Stage

How My Music Studio’s Free, Pro and Studio plans support instrumental teachers from their first students through to running multi-teacher programs.

How Music Teaching Careers Naturally Evolve - and Why Naming the Changes Helps

Music teaching careers rarely stay still. Most teachers begin by fitting lessons around other commitments, then gradually shift into roles that involve independence, systems, leadership, or broader sector influence. Naming these phases helps us understand the work we’re actually doing - and make deliberate choices about how we teach, earn, and organise our professional lives.

A Week of Building in Beauty

This week I’ve been working from Wandiligong, a quiet valley in Victoria. With blossoms outside the window and a sleeping dog at my feet, I’ve been dreaming up ways to make life easier for teachers—refining dashboards, billing, and parent portals in My Music Studio.

Preparing for a Performance: How to Beat Performance Anxiety

Performance nerves can derail even well-prepared students. In this lesson, I used creative strategies—like stair running, deliberate wrong notes, and noisy distractions—to help a student learn to perform confidently under pressure.

The Simple Fingering Trick That Changed Everything

A simple way to approach fingering for scales at the piano.

What we’ve been up to behind the scenes

I’m excited to share a little of what’s happening behind the scenes here at MyMusicStudio.app — especially if you're a music teacher looking for better, smarter, and more enjoyable ways to run your studio and instrumental lessons.

Roll the Dice: How a Simple Tool Can Transform Music Practice

9 Practical Ways to Use Dice in Music Practice

Is Your Student Really Listening?

All about engaging the ear to improve sight-reading, technique, and memory. I explore how aural modelling and singing can transform a student's relationship with their instrument, especially for pianists who tend to focus on reading.

How to Build Performers, Not Just Practisers

Using variable practice to develop stage-ready musicians. This post focuses on variable practice—changing tempo, dynamics, rhythms, or even the environment to prepare students for the unpredictability of performance.