Music is for everyone.
Including you.
Practicing Musician gives every learner, parent, and music teacher access to a research-backed curriculum and 3,500+ video tutorials from expert instructors, completely free. Private lessons with accomplished instructors are available when you’re ready to go further.
Choose your path
We’ll show you what matters most for your situation.
Backed by organizations that believe music education changes lives.
Practicing Musician is a politically neutral, nonpartisan organization. Any reference to third-party organizations is provided solely to indicate the breadth of support for Practicing Musician’s mission and values.
- Alto Saxophone
- Baritone / Euphonium
- Clarinet
- Flute
- French Horn
- Oboe
- Percussion
- Tenor Saxophone
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Cello
- Upright Bass
- Viola
- Violin
More than lessons. A complete musical education.
Practicing Musician combines expert video instruction with a research-backed curriculum developed alongside the educators who shaped the National Core Arts Standards. Everything a learner needs is in one place, from the very first note.
3,500+ tutorials from accomplished professional musicians.
Available anytime, on any device, for beginning and intermediate learners across all 15 primary band and orchestra instruments. Free, with no credit card and no commitment required.
Built on the research that makes learning actually stick.
Spaced practice, retrieval, and focused feedback are built into every lesson. The same principles that define great learning in every subject are applied here to building real, lasting musical ability.
Play together from day one.
No experience needed. Learners of any age or level start making real music immediately, and can play alongside family, friends, or classmates from their very first lesson.
No extra costs. No hunting for materials.
Every piece of music a learner needs is already in the platform. No supplemental purchases, no curriculum gaps, and no surprises on your statement.
When you're ready to go further.
Practicing Musician private lessons pair you or your child with an accomplished, vetted instructor for focused one-on-one sessions via live video conference, built around your schedule. The same research-backed curriculum. The same trusted method. More personalized support and accountability to accelerate progress.
Trusted by teachers.
We've been waiting for a technological adaptation of the Model Cornerstone Assessments since the re-envisioning of the National Core Arts Standards in 2014. Practicing Musician has provided a viable and useful solution.
Dr. Frederick Burrack
Co-Chair of Model Cornerstone Assessment Development, Director of Assessment, Kansas State University
I love Practicing Musician's method. It's saving me so much time. Today I used it to assign what will be a semester's worth of work for my HS students, and it only took a half hour.
Valerie Coolidge
Jr/Sr High Music Director, Oroville, WA
My students are always asking, 'when can we use Practicing Musician again?!' because they just have such a great time with the program.
Catherine Stadulis
Band Director, Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
Thanks to Practicing Musician, my students are leaps and bounds ahead of where they normally are at this time in the year!
Mary Ellen Hodges
Elementary General Music Teacher, Burlington-Edison School District
Practicing Musician's goal is to reach 5 million students by 2030.
Every free lesson accessed, every private lesson enrolled, and every educator who shares the platform brings that goal closer. Music education changes lives. We're making sure it reaches everyone.
Every practicing musician starts the same way: with the decision to play.
Be a practicing musician.
Start free today.
No commitment, no credit card, and a curriculum built for everyone.
