A smart, enjoyable 8-week piano programme that strips away the irrelevant and focuses on the piano techniques that genuinely improve your teaching.

Skillful piano that supports your singing teacher expertise — without traditional piano lessons taking over your life.

For busy singing teachers and vocal coaches frustrated that the piano is getting in the way of the level they are actually capable of teaching at.

Fed up with relying on backing tracks, generic vocal exercises, YouTube and uninspiring teaching resources just to “get by”.

Get a personalised, imaginative and exact set of piano skills designed around your teaching style and future direction.

So you can create personalised warm-ups on the spot, correct pitch, accompany songs with ease, lead workshops confidently, communicate more clearly, build rapport with your students and deliver lessons that feel more “special”.

Allowing you to access new career opportunities, be more likely to get known for your thing, and attract students who return.

Without wasting years on piano techniques that ultimately don’t support your teaching or career goals..

• Even if …piano isn’t a main priority

• Even if:… your schedule is already packed

• Even if …you’re stuck in that maddening “I can play the piano...“ but not in a way that truly helps your teaching phase

£510 / 5 places

Chances are, you love teaching singing.

And, like all the singing teachers I know, work alongside or help, you care deeply about their students.

You genuinely love all the breakthroughs, the sharing, watching your students grow in confidence.

And for the most part, you’re confident with what you offer as a teacher.

But every now and then, there’s a bump in the road:

A melody you’d love to break down — if only you could play it.

A student walks in with a chart expecting you to accompany immediately.

Or asks to try it in another key.

A vocal exercise you wish you could just tweak slightly to get deeper into their issue.

Or loop at a certain point instead of stopping and restarting tracks.

A lesson that loses musical flow halfway through.

A parent in the room while you awkwardly fumble for tracks.

Avoiding situations where other teachers might hear your piano playing.

Or a job ad you’d love to say go for — if piano wasn’t part of the brief.

All common frustrations.

And thankfully, solvable.

The 5 Piano Problems of Singing Teachers

1.

Avoiding the piano

—Feeling embarrassed playing in front of students, parents or colleagues

—You’ve tried learning piano before and either hated it, got bored to tears or couldn’t connect it to your teaching

—Avoiding using the piano in lessons — or relying heavily on backing tracks because it feels safer

—Over relying on YouTube, backing tracks, and generic warm-ups exercise patterns

—-Lost with chords or having to spend weeks practicing up just one song only to teach it once

—Highly concerned your students are not getting a top level and complete singing lesson

—Feeling embarrassed playing in front of students, parents and colleagues

—Frustrated at not being able to teach comprehensively your best through gaps in their ability to cross the communication gap.

—Limited in your professional teaching ‘tools’

—Feeling being considered less good than other teachers

—Having to hire accompanists and feeling second-rate next to teachers who can play

—Struggling to deliver the high quality 121 singing lesson, class or workshop you are capable of

2.

“I can play… but there are gaps”

—Bashing through song charts with no idea how to make them sound good

—Stop–start, unmusical playing that interrupts lesson flow

— No idea how to break down the melody at the keyboard for your student

—Making chords sound musical and inspiring to sing over is still a mystery

—You can read notation — but chord charts feel like IKEA instructions written in Greek

—You can theoretically play from chord symbols — but making pop styles sound any where close to the original isn’t happening

3.

Stop-start teaching

—Stuck playing warm-ups you can play — not the ones that actually help the student

—Spending weeks practising up one song — just to teach it once

—Over-relying on YouTube, backing tracks & generic warm-up patterns

—Fumbling through warm-ups — making it impossible to really listen to your student

—Frustrated at not being able to teach your best — because the piano blocks communication

—You’d love to personalise vocal exercises — but can’t find them on the piano

—Spending more time “managing the piano” than listening to the student

4.

The piano doesn’t match your singing expertise

—Highly concerned your students aren’t getting a complete singing lesson

—Struggling to consistently deliver the lessons and sessions you know you’re capable of

—Embarrassed at your amateur sounding piano that does not reflect the quality of your teaching

—Concerned you’re considered less capable than other teachers

5.

Opportunities you’d love to go for —but don’t feel ready

—Having to hire accompanists — and feeling second-rate next to teachers who can play

—You’d like to branch out your studio or career — but lack of piano keeps you stuck

— Not capitalising on the possibilities of piano to expand your teaching — and have more fun & continued growth

— You want to be good at piano… but not necessarily become a “real pianist”

—Wanting piano skills that support your career — without needing to become “a real pianist”

—Relying on accompanists or tracks for things you wish you could lead yourself

—Feeling limited in workshops, choirs or contemporary teaching settings

—Missing out on jobs, workshops or choir opportunities with “piano” in the ad

“Just learn piano,” they say.

“It’ll help your teaching,” they say.

You would think! But in reality piano has a different focus. And piano teachers don’t understand the delicate process of drawing out the singing voice. Why would they? Singing teachers need a specific kind of piano. They need piano for teaching singing.
Which makes the standard ‘piano route’ not always helpful.

You don’t need it all

The legacy of the piano is huge.

Classical repertoire, jazz improv, commercial styles, Latin grooves, sight-reading, chord chart interpretation, singer accompaniment, locking in with a rhythm section…

The list goes on. From the outside, it can feel overwhelming. This mountain to climb. But here’s the liberating bit: you don’t need to be an impressive blend of Herbie Hancock, Alicia Keys, and Lang Lang.

In fact, jaw-dropping virtuosity can get in the way of teaching effectively.

The good news?

To teach singing from the piano, you actually only need 3 things:

Get patterns, not pieces

Singing teachers already know about melody and song story. Singing teachers don’t need more repertoire, they need reusable structure: patterns.

Patterns are:

• the foundation of commercial-style teaching

• the secret behind great vocal warm-ups, breaking down melody and vocal harmonies

• the key to reading chord charts — never be scared of a chart again

• the engine of rhythm, great phrasing and riffs

• the doorway to beautiful accompaniment that supports the singer

• the fastest route to flow and rehearsing large groups

Patterns train your hands so your ears can stay on your student.

Where this takes you

The lesson and career shifts. Piano is not the only teaching tool, but it’s a powerful one.

✦ Legitimately Add Piano to Your CV

Not “basic keyboard skills.” Proper, usable piano that becomes part of your teaching identity and professional offer.

✦ Piano as a Business Card

It signals musical competence before you’ve even opened your mouth. Particularly popular with heads of department, schools, parents and workshop organisers.

✦ Commercial Styles Credibility

Genuinely support modern singing styles, not just traditional vocal exercises. Confidently teach, demo and accompany across contemporary pop, jazz, musical theatre and singer-songwriter repertoire.

✦ Authority & Presence

Handle rehearsals, workshops and teaching situations more independently — without needing tracks, accompanists or constant backup.

✦ More Creative Musical Thinking

The piano mirrors singing back to you in a way that deepens musical understanding, phrasing, arrangement ideas and stylistic imagination.

✦ A More Distinctive Teaching Identity

Not just deliver information more efficiently. Piano helps many singing teachers uncover their own musical flavour, niche and teaching personality.

✦ Greater Long-Term Career Flexibility

Expand into workshops, choirs, group teaching, accompaniment, musical direction and more contemporary teaching environments with greater confidence and ease.

✦ Lessons That Feel Premium

More musical flow. Better demonstrations. Less stopping to find tracks. Sessions start feeling polished, musical and genuinely memorable.

What you could learn

Not one-size fits all.

• How to play from a song sheet dropped in front of you 30 seconds ago — and actually make it sound good

• How to change key mid-song because your student suddenly can’t reach the chorus anymore

• How to run warm-ups in multiple keys without looking mildly traumatised

• How to loop tricky melody sections without wasting half the lesson

• How to make pop accompaniments sound stylistically believable — not stiff, classical or “teacher-y”

• How to lead a noisy room full of teenagers from the piano — and keep the energy musical instead of chaotic

• How to pull up a questionable online chord chart and fix it on the fly

• How to teach harmony parts while still keeping the whole room engaged

• How to shift groove, feel, dynamics and energy live in the lesson

• How to accompany songs simply and musically without overplaying

• How to make key changes feel smooth instead of alarming

• How to personalise warm-ups for different voices, styles and students on the spot

• How to confidently lead rehearsals, workshops and group sessions from the piano

• How to make songs like Aretha, Coldplay or contemporary MT actually work at the keyboard

• How to create simple riff ideas, endings and backing ideas that better fit the student

• How to break down melodies quickly and teach them efficiently

• How to use piano to strengthen your teaching offer — not just your musicianship

• How to build useful piano skills without disappearing into years of traditional practice

FAQ

Q: How is this better than a straightforward piano course?

A: Pianists - even excellent ones - don't fully understand the singing voice, and the delicate business of drawing out a confident result from a student. I have trained, taught and performed for many years in both the piano and singing. And by "trained" I mean: technique, style, repertoire, improvisation and teaching methodology. Getting to a high standard on both instruments took a while. I most certainly have gaps, but I DO understand piano and singing together, and how one can support the other.

Q: I've only got access to keyboard - is that okay, or do I need a piano?

A: Perfectly fine - it doesn’t need to be fancy. You don’t need a Steinway—you just need a place to practise. Weighted, full-size keys are preferable but it's not a disaster if you're working with a basic keyboard. And, let’s face it, we can be faced with an assortment of ‘pianos with personality’ in schools and colleges. Learning how to handle this is in the course.

Q: Is this for complete beginners?

A: Not complete beginners to music. If you’re a singing teacher then you know about music. That knowledge and expertise just needs to be drawn out on a piano. If you’re completely new to piano — i.e. you don’t know the names of the notes and don’t yet have a basic technique — then a couple of orientation 1:1 lessons first is a good idea.

Q: How does the personalised plan work?

A: The aim is to give you the piano skills for your singing teaching and vocal coaching. For example: those that teach musical theatre to Saturday morning classes may need different vocal warm up patterns to those that work mainly with adults singing for pleasure in a 121 lesson.

Q: I'm from a classical background, new to chords and popular song styles – will this course help me?

A: If you’re confident with classical repertoire, you’ll likely be strong with notation and melody reading. You may now need the ‘other’ side - chords, grooves, style patterns, embellishments, impro. I went through this transformation - painfully! - but it’s so rewarding being able to do both. Your personal plan will map this out for you.

Q: Will I need to practice a lot?
A: It depends on your starting point. You’ll need to do some. But this course is built for teachers, not concert pianists. We’re aiming for efficiency rather than endless hours, and noticing the difference in your teaching practice from early on — you should feel more inspired to practise! As much as is genuinely possible we try and embed your practice in your actual teaching.

Q: How long will it take?
A: Approximately 8 weeks of actual work. But you may find yourself staying on one technique for longer which is both sensible and allowed. Because we embed your practice in your teaching week (paid practice!) you will have a constant feeling of getting there without the pressure.

Q: Can I see the course module breakdown?
A: We don’t use a one-size-fits-all approach. We start with what you’re trying to achieve and work out the best way to get you there. As a teacher, you’ll probably appreciate that. The general feedback (and my own experience too) is that approaching your teaching through the lens of the piano—and from a fresh angle—gives you a deeper understanding of your singing teacher philosophy, sharpening your methodology and approach. Good things to have!

Q: I love the idea of playing the piano
A: If you want to play classical repertoire: Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert etc. that demands a deeper commitment, and piano lessons would be your best answer. But if you just want to get going, this programme may be the best way to start. Playing pianistically is an important section - singers get frustrated if they can’t match the musicianship of their singing. Students notice the difference too. You'll learn real piano skills that feel good under your fingers, and you can absolutely go on to lessons afterwards with a strong head start.

Q: Can I sign up another time?
A: It depends what you’re looking for. At the moment, this isn’t an evergreen course (available all year round). It’s highly personalised — meaning a lot of 1:1 attention, and therefore limited capacity. Each time the programme runs, it evolves. Next time, it may have a different structure or pricing.

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