Forte is the most trusted brand for live, online music lessons. Our state-of-the-art platform was purpose-built for music lessons, including industry leading audio quality. Thousands of students from around the world come to Forte each week looking for a new music teacher.
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About The Recording Academy + Forte Partnership
The Recording Academy and Forte have partnered together to allow Academy members who teach music to increase their income by connecting them to more students globally. Students from around the world will use Forte to gain a new way to access private lessons with verified members from The Recording Academy who are experienced in teaching performance, composition, songwriting, production, and more.
Benefits for you
As a Recording Academy verified teacher on Forte, you will be prominently designated as a premium teacher on our platform.
You can set your own rates for lessons and can teach as many or as few students as you like.
Forte will only recommend you to the types of students you want to teach based on the student’s skill level, goals, and genre preferences.
Forte allows you to do your best teaching online. Our video conferencing tool offers radically better audio quality and other features purpose-built for teaching music.
The Royal College of Music and Berklee College of Music have offered programs on our platform.
Our mission is to ensure that anyone, anywhere, who aspires to any level of musicianship, has access to a great teacher like you.
Required Qualifications
To determine if you are qualified to teach as part of the Recording Academy + Forte partnership, please submit an application to be reviewed by the Forte team. We are specifically looking for teachers who have experience teaching in a private studio or classroom, and/or have a strong pedagogy background.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Forte, you will control how much you get paid per hour, starting at the Aspen Music Festival and School minimum of $80 per hour. You have the ability to set separate rates for lessons of differing lengths. For each lesson you give, Forte will charge the student a fee on top of the amount you specify you want to be paid. The total amount (your rate plus Forte’s fee) will be what the student pays for the lesson.
Forte offers a wide variety of instruments, including all Western classical instruments, composition, songwriting, and more – we are always adding new instruments. If your instrument is not listed, please email us at programs@fortelessons.com
Yes! Forte allows teachers to teach multiple instruments. You can have one Forte account with separate profiles for each instrument.
To use Forte, you only need access to a laptop/desktop computer with the Chrome browser or an iPad with the Safari browser. Forte is completely browser-based, so there are no applications to download.
We would also recommend using a good external microphone and headphones when possible. This will ensure the best audio experience for both you and the student.
To ensure your profile is reaching a large variety of students, we recommend making yourself available to as many genres, age ranges, and ability ranges as possible.
Forte is available to all student ability levels, ages, and aspirations. In your teacher profile, we ask you questions about what types of students you want (age, skill level, etc.). We will only recommend you to students who fit those criteria.
Register to teach on Forte!
If you have any questions please email us at programs@fortelessons.com.
