Complete practical guide
The music teaching book that starts with a crate of photocopies and a closed door
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on teaching an instrument or voice as a side hustle - what you may hand out, when you stop, why the door stays open, and what you can never promise.
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What this guide is
Most guides to music teaching are about method. This one is about the four decisions that are too important to make in the moment. It opens with a teacher who spent two years working from a crate of photocopies, teaching with the door closed because of the noise. Neither of those things ever went wrong - which is precisely the point, because nothing happening was luck rather than a decision. Every piece they taught belonged to somebody, and they had never once asked. The book's central argument is that you are not teaching an instrument at all: you are teaching somebody how to practise, using an instrument - which makes the written practice assignment the actual product, and the six days between lessons three times more important than the hour itself. It states no copyright position, no exam syllabus, no clinical fact and no price, routing every one of those to a rights holder, an exam board, or a qualified professional, and teaching the checks instead.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these businesses - ownership, bodies, the door, and promises
- The folder audit: every item you teach from, until you can account for all of it - because 'I have always used it' is not an account of where it came from
- Why reassurance about a student's hand, voice, or hearing is an assessment you are not qualified to give, with the four sentences never to say
- The four-item practice assignment almost no teacher writes down - and the practice rate that warns you before anything else does
- Why a term payment is a promise of lessons rather than income, and why September feels excellent and November does not
- Roughly half to two-thirds of your hours are invisible, which is why a price set on the teaching hour pays you for a third of your work
- Section 37.3 on AI-generated music - the newest rights problem in the trade, and the one nobody has an answer to yet
- 148 AI prompts with their safety constraints written in - and not one of them asks AI what copyright permits
Ideal for
Musicians starting private teaching alongside other work, and working teachers who have never written a policy, never audited the folder they teach from, and have never given a student a written practice assignment.
- Anyone starting music teaching alongside other work.
- Working teachers who have never audited their folder, never written a practice assignment down, and have never established who they would report a safeguarding concern to.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with a licence and materials register they can account for entirely, a named designated safeguarding contact and escalation, a written door arrangement for every setting, registration and purpose-specific consent records, a hearing and vocal safety position obtained from somebody qualified, two written refusal lists, a cost floor divided by lessons actually taught, a written practice assignment for every student every week, a tracked practice rate and rebooking rate, a term-payment obligation tracker, a seven-item never-skipped check card, and a thirty-day, ninety-day, and one-year plan.
A complete working system for teaching music privately alongside other work - built on four rules covering copyright and ownership, bodies you are not qualified to assess, safeguarding practice, and what may never be promised - with the practice assignment treated as the actual product.
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