09/10/2026
I understand why working for a music school feels like a safer option - but is it?
The more guitar teachers I talk to, it’s becoming clear to me that it’s a bit riskier than most people think.
“I said I couldn’t do this one particular date and the next week my teaching hours went from 12 to 3”
“I lesson plan for 2-3 hours per day because I am teaching quite a few students”
“Finances are tight even with that amount of students but I do some gigs on the weekend which helps a bit”
The biggest reason teachers stay is because the school finds their students for them.
And because they don’t have a clear guide to getting new students with free and low cost strategies, it’s so much easier to just say with what they’re doing…
Even if they’re lesson planning and teaching 30-50 students per week in a schedule that isn’t flexible at all.
And once you just unlock that super simple skill (that most people massively overcomplicate) - you actually get control over your income, how you teach and the hours that you work.
Everything else in growing your business becomes easy.
Putting more focus into my own guitar teaching business seemed like a huge change but it really wasn’t - especially if you’re just building what I like to call a ‘Micro guitar school’.
Once you have strategies and systems that work, it can incredibly simple and most importantly financially stable.
