6 Music Teacher Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 1st, 2023

Become A Music Teacher

Here are some real life success stories of starting a music teacher:

1. Lessons By Brooke & Company ($540K/year)

Brooke Schrager, founder of Lessons By Brooke & Company, started her business after realizing that she wasn't happy in her public school teaching job and wanted to focus on providing private music lessons to dedicated students. Within a year, she had 30+ students and a growing waitlist. Today, her business has 17 instructors, teaches over 200 students each week, and generates a monthly revenue of $20,000.

How much they make: $540K/year
How much did it cost to start: $1K
Current team size: 1

How I Started A $20K/Month Private Music Lessons Business

This case study follows Brooke Schrager's journey of starting a customized in-home music lesson business with only 10 students in January 2016 and growing it to over 200 students with monthly revenue of $20,000 in May 2021.

About

Brooke started Lessons By Brooke & Company over 8 years ago

Revenue

Brooke grew the business to $45K/month

Costs

It cost Brooke $1000 to start the business

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2. Recording Revolution ($1.92M/year)

How much they make: $1.92M/year
How much did it cost to start: $60
Current team size:

This 38-year-old makes $160000 per month in passive income - after losing his job: 'I work only 5 hours a week now'.

How Graham Cochrane founded The Recording Revolution, an online platform offering music instruction, and has grown it to train over 350,000 songwriters and musicians to produce songs suitable for radio from their homes, while also earning $160,000 per month in passive income and working only five hours per week.

About

They started Recording Revolution over 15 years ago

Revenue

They grew the business to $160K/month

Costs

It cost $60 to start the business

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Learn more about starting a music teacher:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a music teacher?
-> Pros and cons of a music teacher

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established music teacher
-> Marketing ideas for a music teacher

Other resources

4. Music Tech Teacher

Music Tech Teacher includes quizzes, games, lessons, worksheets and other resources for teachers and students interested in using technology to enhance music education.

Website traffic: 40K/month

5. Hear And Play

Piano lessons teaching piano by ear. Piano lessons for adults, ear-training, music theory.

Where they're located: Rancho Santa Margarita, California, USA
How much did it cost to start: $70

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