Working document
The weekly practice assignment sheet you can fill in tonight
A single page you complete in the last two minutes of a lesson that tells a student and a parent exactly what to do on each of the next six days.
Free resources
Resources for running a private music studio
Everything here is free, built for a working private teacher, and specific enough to use in this week rather than in principle.
A private studio runs on a handful of recurring decisions: what to charge, what to assign, how much practice a date actually requires, and which software is worth paying for. These resources take those decisions one at a time. The calculators do arithmetic you can check. The assignment template is a working page you can print tonight. The comparison pages say plainly which kind of teacher each product suits, without quoting numbers we cannot verify about other vendors.
Alongside them, Studio Hours covers the craft, economics and rules of running a private music studio in the United States, from tuition policy and copyright to recital day. If you want the fuller argument behind any of these tools, that is where it lives.
Free tools
Calculators for private music teachers
Two arithmetic problems come up in every studio, one about the rate you charge and one about the practice a date demands, and both are easier to settle with numbers than with instinct.
Comparisons
PracticeSheet compared with the tools private teachers actually evaluate
Most software sold to music teachers solves the business hour, not the six days between lessons, and that difference decides which tool belongs in your studio.
Main guide
How to Write a Weekly Practice Assignment Students Follow
It settles what belongs on a weekly assignment, in what wording, so a student can follow it alone and a parent can check it without reading music.
Magazine
Studio Hours
Reporting on the craft, economics and rules of running a private music studio in the United States, from tuition policy to recital day.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes Studio Hours, the private lesson studio behind it, and why the tuition, practice and recital day advice here is aimed at teachers with 15 to 50 students rather than at schools.
Keep the template, keep your studio as it is
Everything on this page stays free, and plenty of teachers print the assignment sheet, use it for years and never speak to us. If the part that wears you down is rewriting bar numbers and scale keys by hand for forty students every week, a demo shows the same blocks working as lesson notes, weekly assignments and logged practice. Your billing and scheduling stay exactly where they are.