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How JamClass by JamKazam Can Help Your Music School

Online music lessons offer major advantages to your students, private lesson teachers, and your school's booster program.

Students can take lessons much more conveniently from home, while enjoying studio quality audio and while retaining the ability to play live in sync with their instructor. Students can take lessons from the best teacher vs. settling for someone who lives close by. Parents don't have to leave work early to drive students to and from lessons during rush hour, while carting siblings along to lessons. A 30-minute lesson is just a 30-minute lesson, not a 90-minute expedition. And students can record lessons to refer back to them later.

Teachers can now provide lessons to students nearly anywhere, rather than being constrained to students who live within a 30-minute drive. Teachers don't have to spend as much time driving to schools and to students' homes as they do teaching, so they can travel less, teach more, and earn more. And teachers can provide instruction to students from underserved schools that are located in areas that are more difficult to reach.

Even the booster program benefits, as JamKazam funnels a portion of lesson fees back into the music program booster fund, helping to pay for trips, instrument repairs, and other music program expenses - all without students selling things, and without additional time or effort expended by the music program director.

Some teachers and students have historically tried using Skype to power online lessons, but have found that the lesson experience is significantly diminished. Why? Because Skype and similar apps were built for voice chat – not to deliver online music lessons. This is a major problem. Voice technology processes all audio as if it were a spoken human voice, which makes music sound awful in online sessions – so bad that teachers can’t assess the student’s tone and sometimes even the pitch of what they are playing. These apps also have very high latency – a technical term that means that the student and teacher cannot play together, another important requirement for productive lessons. Since Skype wasn’t built for music, it also lacks many other basic features to support effective lessons, like a metronome, mixers, backing tracks, etc.

At JamKazam, we’ve spent years designing, patenting, and building technology specifically to enable musicians to play online live in sync with studio quality audio. We’ve built a wide variety of critical online music performance features into this platform. And now we’ve built a lesson marketplace on top of this foundation, and crafted a partner program specifically to meet the needs of secondary education music programs. The bottom line is that your students, private lesson teachers, and your music program's booster fund can now all "win" by adopting this amazing new Internet service. And you don't have to do it all at once. You can simply make this available as an option to students and parents who decide this is a good fit for them and will help them.

If this sounds interesting to you, read on to learn more about some of the top features of JamClass by JamKazam.

JamClass Kudos

Scott Himel

Texas high school band director

Justin Pierce

Masters degree in jazz studies, performer in multiple bands, saxophone instructor

Dave Sebree

Founder of Austin School of Music, Gibson-endorsed guitarist, touring musician

Sara Nelson

Cellist for Austin Lyric Opera, frequently recorded with major artists

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