Teaching & Marketing Tools 

Whether you’re a veteran music instructor or just beginning your teaching career, there are many teaching and marketing tools available ​to help you excel. Below we’ve compiled some of our favourites. Click on any of the links below.
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Graphic Design &
​Email Marketing Platforms

Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark helps you create media graphics, simple responsive websites, and short animated videos.

Canva
Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create professional social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. 

Crello
Crello has a large number of templates in many styles and formats, from social media to print and marketing assets.

HubSpot
Hubspot combines marketing automation, email, and other marketing tools with  easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor and customizable templates.

Mailchimp
Mailchimp is one of the most popular email newsletter services  and marketing automation platforms that lets you create and send email newsletters to your audience with ready-to-use campaign templates.

MailerLite
MailerLite is simple and easy to use, and has some of the best sets of email newsletter templates. It is a great tool for those who want to send bulk email campaigns.

Moosend
Moosend is an email marketing service that is an affordable, sophisticated choice for those of you that need a simple option but are on a shoe-string budget, with free newsletter templates for every occasion.

Visme
Visme is a graphic design tool where you can create professional and attractive presentations, infographics, social media graphics and more.

Printable Sheet Music
(Public Domain & For-Purchase)

Art Song Central
Art Song Central is an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers.

Free-Scores.com
Free-Scores provides free broadcast and media hosting for composer, arrangers and publishers.
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Musescore
The Musescore website is a sheet music-sharing social platform. Anybody can create a free account and upload their sheet music, to share with the world or to be kept as a private backup.

Petrucci Music Library
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library, is a subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public-domain music scores.

Musicnotes
Musicnotes.com is the world’s largest e-commerce sheet music retailer and publisher, providing over 300,000 pieces of officially licensed digital sheet music and guitar tablature to 6 million customers around the globe.

Scribd
​Scribd is an online e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes access to sheet music anthologies, some downloadable PDF’s, and e-books.

Sheet Music Direct
Sheet Music Direct is the world's premier destination for digital sheet music. Sheet Music Direct allows musicians to view, purchase, download and print sheet music instantly.

Sheet Music Plus
Sheet Music Plus is on online retailer of sheet music with over 1000000 songbooks, scores, tabs methods and more.

Technology

Appcompanist 
The Appcompanist app gives you full control over thousands of piano accompaniments. Available on iOS and Android devices.
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Cleartune 
The Cleartune app is a chromatic instrument tuner and pitch pipe available on iOS and Android devices.

Internet Midi
Internet MIDI software is the premiere solution for long distance teaching and performing, enabling you to connect any 2 MIDI instruments together over the Internet.

GuitarTuna
The GuitarTuna app is great for other plucked-string instruments as well, like bass, mandoline, ukulele, banjo, balalaika, and even orchestral-stringed instruments. Available on iOS and Android devices.

My Piano Accompaniment
High quality piano accompaniment and transcriptions MP3 download tracks for various instruments, including voice.

Noteflight
Noteflight is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear professional quality music notation. 
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Piano-Accompaniments
Piano-Accompaniments.com offers high-quality piano accompaniment MP3 tracks for strings, woodwinds and brass.

Piano Trax
Piano Trax gives you access to download thousands of tracks which are compatible for any music player.

SmartMusic
SmartMusic is a web-based suite of music education tools and home to the largest online, interactive music library.

StreamYard
StreamYard is a live streaming studio in your browser. Interview guests, share your screen, and much more. 
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Tomplay
Tomplay interactive sheet music scrolls automatically on your screen in time with the music. Choose the audio track you need and press Play to start the interactive score with the music. For all instruments.

Virtually Vocal 
Virtually Vocal is an online training tool for singers and voice teachers, with unlimited access to thousands of high-quality accompaniment recordings.

Your Accompanist
Your Accompanist offers piano accompaniments for leisure and professional singing practice. Free mp3 downloads and affordable library of well known classical and traditional public domain music.
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Zoom
Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing service used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations.

Lesson Materials

Conservatory Canada
Create a Conservatory Canada Account for full access to their resources in their Teacher Portal.

On and Off Podium
Wendy Higdon's teaching materials for band. Includes recruitment material.

Orchestra Classroom
Scores, parts, warm-ups and more for beginning and advanced orchestra.

Royal Conservatory of Music Online Learning Resources
Tips for teaching music online to video resources. Create an RCM Teacher Account for full access to their RCM Teacher Portal.

Teaching Business &
​Scheduling Software

Acuity Scheduling
​Acuity Scheduling is an online appointment scheduling software. Clients schedule appointments, pay, and complete intake forms online.

Duet (formally Music Teachers' Helper)
Duet is an online studio management system that enables you to coordinate your music teaching studio. Features include billing, automatic reminders, and lesson scheduling.

HoneyBook
HoneyBook is a cloud-based platform that enables users to manage projects, book customers, send invoices, sign online contracts and manage payments.

My Music Staff
My Music Staff is a cloud-based music school management software designed to help private teachers and music studios handle students, lessons, invoices, payments, attendance, expenses, billing and more.
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Timely (Get Timely)
​Timely is a cloud-based scheduling software. Run appointment schedules remotely, generate reports, and send notifications and reminders.

Social Media Groups

A Community of Harp Teachers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3010940785859297

Alberta Music Teachers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3329296303752418

Best of Music Education for All Grades:
https://www.pinterest.ca/happyteacher/best-of-music-education-for-all-grades/

Brass Teachers' Network:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1896006220625998

Ear Training:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/476466322798198

Life After COVID for Singers
​https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeaftercovidforsingers/?ref=share

Music Education:
https://www.pinterest.ca/TeachersCollege/music-education/

Music Lesson Plans:
https://www.pinterest.ca/ampowell81/music-lesson-plans/

Music Teachers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/musicpln

Network of Positive Orchestra Directors:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/positiveorchestradirectors

Piano Teacher Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pianoteachercanada

Professional Guitar Teachers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Professionalguitarteachers

School Orchestra and String Teachers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OrchestraTeachers

The International Woodwind Players:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/international.woodwinds.players

​University Percussion Teachers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/universitypercussionteachers

Voice Teachers' Community:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/voiceteacherscommunity