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I recently discovered an amazing new way to find students that I’d like to share with you…PAY YOUR STUDENTS TO GET REFERALS. Tell them (and everybody else that you know) that you’ll give them twenty bucks for each student that they refer to you (they get paid when the new student pays for the first month in advance). Offer them cash and you will see how many referrals you will get. It’s much better than offering a discount off of future lessons because kids don’t really care about that…but CASH TALKS. This way you will have a whole army of “scouts” working for you and your business will flourish. In time you will have to establish a waiting list and even pass some students on to other local instructors. Of all the information I hope to pass on in this book, that is the first, best, and most important. If you have no students you can’t teach. And in this case if you can’t teach you won’t make money.
Making money can be fun and easy as a private music teacher, a process that this book will explain in great detail. Tired of waiting for the phone to ring for the next gig? Too busy with your schoolwork or job to improve your technique? By following a few simple guidelines you will see how easy, fun, rewarding, and profitable it is to add teaching to your musical life.
I will help you understand the entire process…from how to get your first student to scheduling, running the class, keeping records, and even writing and publishing your own method book. We’ll cover several ideas and approaches on actual teaching techniques as well as classroom procedures, personal programs, and dealing with the psychology of each individual student. I will also give you ideas on how to present yourself as a teacher, how to advertise, get students, and most importantly how to keep your students happy and inspired so that they will stay with you and develop.
This book explains general teaching techniques. Since this book does not deal with any specific instrument or field for that matter, you can just as easily apply this method to teaching Piano/Guitar/Saxophone/etc. as to teaching the Martial Arts, Languages, or Soccer.
Having said that, it is understood that you have become proficient on your particular instrument or field and therefore will know the nuances, traps, and “ins & outs” that the students will come up against. It is also a given that you have a solid grasp of technique, phrasing, theory, etc., and know several books to use and recommend in conjunction with your lessons.
This book is going to give you the tools you need to start teaching. It is up to you to use this information to your advantage. At first you may be a little nervous or apprehensive, but once you get into a groove you’ll be on your way…and hopefully you will find great satisfaction in being a music teacher and passing on your knowledge to the next generation of musicians.
Learning to teach music can be a fun and exciting career adventure for musicians of all ages and levels. The teacher who is constantly willing to give their time and energy, answer questions so that they are understood, and knows how to “read” his/her students’ psychology is the successful teacher.
I firmly believe that a great teacher is a great student. The teacher who continues to learn and grow is always inspired, and can thus transfer that inspiration. I hope these pages will be inspirational to you. The subject of teaching is a joy for me to write about, and being a music teacher is a great way to make a living.
Steve Stockmal 