For music teachers

One place for every student's music

This is a practical setup guide for piano teachers and private music studios. You'll open a score, use a teaching group, assign parts when the music needs it, and use Score Settings to check private and shared annotation layers.

Watch the walkthrough Start the setup flow Redeem teacher code

Musync home screen on a teacher account — Start from the same app your students use.

Musync library screen with teacher scores — Keep student music and lesson material together.

A note from Musync

From one musician to another

Musync started after an outdoor performance during COVID, when the wind scattered the sheet music and brought everything to a stop. As a father-and-son team, and as musicians who know the stress of missing pages and the wrong copy, we built Musync to make music easier to organize, practice, and share. If you teach piano or run a small studio, this page is meant to feel like a colleague walking you through the first setup.

Tutorial

Watch once, then follow the steps below

The video gives you the landscape walkthrough. The numbered guide below is the quick reference to keep open while you set up your first student score.

Setup flow

Set up your first student score

Follow these steps in order. Each screenshot shows the actual place in the app where the teacher setup happens.

Step 01 / Choose a score

Start with the piece your student is already learning.

Pick a score from the catalog, upload your own, or open something you already have in Musync. For a piano studio, this can be a method-book piece, a recital work, a duet, or a score you want every student to practice from the same way.

The goal is simple: no more wondering which PDF, screenshot, or paper copy a student has at home.

Musync score picker showing recommended classical piano scores — Choose from the piano scores your student can start with.

Step 02 / Use a teaching group

Open the score from a group where you are the manager.

Groups are useful for a private studio, a small class, duet partners, or any student set that needs shared music. In this walkthrough, the teacher is the group manager, which is what makes the teacher-only controls available.

If you want shared parts or public markings, begin from the group score instead of a personal copy.

Musync Groups tab showing classical piano studio groups where the teacher is a manager — Confirm the teacher account is marked as Manager.

Musync group Scores tab showing classical music scores inside a teaching group — Open the piece from the group's Scores tab.

Step 03 / Assign parts

Match the right part to the right student.

If you are teaching solo repertoire, you can skip this step. For duet, chamber, or multi-part scores, open Assign Parts and choose the student for each line. Musync reads the score parts so you can work from the music itself instead of rebuilding the assignment by hand.

This is the digital version of the lesson handoff: each student opens the score and knows exactly what to practice.

Musync Assign Parts screen listing demo classical score parts — Review the score parts Musync found.

Musync Assign Parts screen showing a demo student assigned to a score part — Assign the part to the student, then save.

Step 04 / Open the score

Check that the score is ready to practice from a phone.

Students can open the same MusicXML-based score on their own device. You can review the layout, playback, and score tools before you send them to practice between lessons.

A student does not need to wait until the next lesson to find the right page or the right copy.

Musync score viewer showing a classical score on a phone — Open the score and make sure it is readable.

Step 05 / Choose visible layers

Use Score Settings to decide which annotation layer is visible.

Open Score Settings, expand Annotation Layers, and choose whether you want to see Public, Private, or both. This is the layer visibility control: it changes what markings appear on the score without changing the music itself.

This is the cleanest way to check exactly what a student can see versus what is just for your lesson prep.

Musync Score Settings with only the Public annotation layer enabled — Public only: shared markings stay visible.

Musync Score Settings with only the Private annotation layer enabled — Private only: teacher prep markings stay visible.

Step 06 / Compare the score

Check the score after toggling each layer.

After changing the Annotation Layers setting, return to the score and confirm the visible markings match the layer you selected. The screenshots here use a group score so the manager-only layer controls are visible; use the same check on your piano solo, duet, or studio score.

Think of it like flipping between your copy and the student's copy before the lesson ends.

Musync group score showing only blue Public annotation layer markings — Public layer visible: only the blue student-facing markings remain.

Musync group score showing only red Private annotation layer markings — Private layer visible: only the red prep markings remain.

Music teacher offer

Redeem TEACHER3FREE for Professional

This code is specifically for music teachers. It gives you 3 months free on the Professional plan, so you can try the score, group, part assignment, and annotation tools with your own students.

1. Open Musync, go to your plan screen, and tap Have a promo code?
2. Type TEACHER3FREE and apply it. Musync may display it back as Teacher3Free.
3. Choose Professional when the card shows 3 months free, then finish the store confirmation.

If anything looks different or the code does not apply, send us a note and we will help you get set up.

Musync upgrade screen showing TEACHER3FREE applied to the Professional plan for 3 months free — After TEACHER3FREE is applied, choose Professional and start 3 months free.

What this solves

Less paper chasing between lessons

Musync is at its best when it removes a small piece of lesson friction: the wrong file, the missing page, the unshared marking, or the student who is not sure what to practice.

A new student gets one clear starting score instead of a scattered mix of links and files.
A studio group keeps students, repertoire, assignments, and shared markings together.
Duet or multi-part music can be assigned without a separate message thread.
Private prep notes stay separate from the markings students need to see.