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.
Insights and updates for music teachers
How My Music Studio’s Free, Pro and Studio plans support instrumental teachers from their first students through to running multi-teacher programs.
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.
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.
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.
A simple way to approach fingering for scales at the piano.
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.
9 Practical Ways to Use Dice in Music Practice
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.
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.
Interleaved and variable practice techniques for instrumental progress. This post unpacks why traditional "blocked" practice feels productive in the moment but fails to deliver lasting results.
Ideas to make practice more visible, satisfying, and... done!
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