A piano teacher emailed me last month during open enrollment and said something about piano teacher resources I’ve been hearing more and more often:
“I love what you’ve built. Can I use it with my own students?”
The honest answer until recently was no, the membership is built for families. But the request kept coming — from solo studio teachers, from homeschool co-op music leaders, from teachers who are scaling their businesses and teaching group classes.
So I built out that option. As of this month, Busy Kids Do Piano is available as a studio license.
Here’s what’s included, who it’s for, and what the founding member pricing looks like — because if you’re one of the teachers who’s been waiting on this, I want to make it easy for you to say yes.
The Curriculum Was Never the Problem
When I left my in-person studio model to build Busy Kids Do Piano online, I was trying to solve a specific problem for families: they needed a flexible, structured, teacher-led piano program that worked around real life instead of requiring everything to pause at 3:30 on a Tuesday.
What I didn’t fully anticipate was how many piano teachers would look at what I’d built and recognize a version of their own problem.
Because here’s what I remember about running group piano classes: the teaching was the part I loved. What I didn’t love was the hours I spent during the day trying to piece together activities the group could actually do together, then building out supplemental homework assignments on top of that — because most group piano resources don’t have much theory built in. Things like note reading, harmonizing scales with chords, working through intervals — those weren’t in the curriculum unless I added them myself. So I did. Every week, from scratch, while also trying to actually run a studio and, you know, have a life.
The curriculum was never the problem. Reinventing it every week was.
Piano Teacher Resources that the Studio License Actually Gives You
The Busy Kids Do Piano Studio License is a legal-use license that gives you full access to the entire Busy Kids curriculum — 360+ video lessons spanning 16 levels — to use inside your own studio with your own students.
That means you can:
- Show the video lessons during lessons (or you can purchases individual logins for your student and assign them lessons for home practice between sessions)
- Print worksheets, theory pages, and homework assignments for students from the library of printable piano teacher resources
- Pull from the curriculum for group piano classes, homeschool co-ops, or enrichment programs
- Use individual lessons and materials to reinforce what you’re already teaching, in whatever order makes sense for your studio
The curriculum itself covers everything from keyboard geography, finger numbers, and Middle C position in Level 1 all the way through improvisation, composition, key signatures, circle of fifths, music history, and advanced technique through Levels 7, 8, and 9. There’s also a library of printables, seasonal enrichment activities, composer study resources, listening activities to build ear training, duet modules, pop song tutorials, and rhythm ensemble materials.
In short: it’s a complete musicianship library, not just a lesson series.
You Stay the Teacher. This Becomes Your Library.
I want to be really clear about something, because I think this matters: the studio license is not a replacement for you. It’s a resource for you.
Think of it a little like having a well-stocked kitchen. A great chef doesn’t need someone else to cook the meal — but they do need quality ingredients already prepped and organized so they can spend their energy actually cooking. That’s what this curriculum is meant to be for your studio. The structure and materials are already there. Your teaching, your relationships, your expertise — that’s still entirely yours.
You can use it in sequence as a complete beginner-to-early advanced pathway. Or you can pull individual lessons and worksheets à la carte to complement your own method. Either way, the goal is the same: less time reinventing, more time actually teaching.
Who This Is For (and Who It Isn’t)
The studio license is a truly good fit if you:
- Teach private lessons and want a structured supplement with video support students can revisit at home
- Run or are launching group piano classes and need a curriculum foundation that doesn’t require you to build every lesson from scratch
- Lead music enrichment in a homeschool co-op setting
- Are transitioning to a hybrid or online studio model and want a high-quality curriculum library to anchor it
It’s probably not the right fit if you’re already deeply invested in a specific method book series and don’t have any gaps you’re trying to fill. This license works best for teachers who want flexibility and breadth, not teachers who need a rigid, lock-step progression.
A Simple Way to Think About Pricing
The annual studio license is $279/year at full price (founding member pricing is lower — more on that in a moment). For most studios, that cost is fairly easy to offset, and it doesn’t take many students to do it.
One simple approach is a small annual registration or materials fee. If your studio has 15 students and you charge a $25 registration fee at the start of the year, you’ve already covered the license with room to spare. With 20 students at the same fee, you’re at $500 — well more than double your cost, and you still haven’t charged a single extra dollar for actual lessons. You could also fold it into a slightly higher per-lesson rate or offer it as an add-on to your existing studio fees — whatever makes sense for how your studio is already structured.
There’s also a per-student home access option worth knowing about. You can purchase an individual login for each student for $5/month to use the curriculum at home in between lessons — for practice, review, or just exploring on their own. (That’s what I charge in your member dashboard anyway. You could always price it higher if you’re bundling it with other home practice support…) For families who want that between-lesson reinforcement, it’s a truly low-cost add-on, and it means students are arriving to lessons having actually reviewed the material.
When you look at the math, $279/year works out to less than $24/month for access to 360+ lessons across 16 levels, a full printable library, theory materials, listening activities, and everything else in the curriculum. For most studios, that’s a workable number — especially at founding member pricing.
A Note on the Founding Member Pricing
I’m running a short promotional window on the studio license right now through June 14th, and the founding member rate is significantly lower than what this will be priced at going forward. Use the coupon code FOUNDERTEACHER for this special limited time discount.
If you’ve been on the fence — if you’ve been the teacher sending emails like the one I mentioned at the top — this is truly the best time to get in.
You can see everything that’s included and grab the founding member pricing at busykidsdopiano.com/studio when you enter coupon code FOUNDERTEACHER at checkout.
The Part That Still Gets Me
After 22 years of teaching piano — in private studios, schools, early childhood centers, and special needs settings — I’ve come to believe pretty firmly that the best music education happens when the teacher is freed up to actually teach. Not to administrate, not to prep endlessly, not to explain the same rhythm concept for the fifteenth time while also trying to remember where they put the dotted quarter note worksheet.
The studio license is my attempt to give teachers a little of that freedom back by providing simple-to-use piano teacher resources. To make the behind-the-scenes work lighter so the in-the-room (or on-screen) work can be richer.
If you’re a piano teacher who wants to spend less time building curriculum and more time making music with your students, I’d love to have you inside.
👉 See the full studio license details here.
Carly Seifert is the creator of Busy Kids Do Piano, an award-winning online piano curriculum used by families and studios across the country. She has 22+ years of piano teaching experience and hosts the Busy Kids Love Music podcast.
