Music teachers get squeezed from two sides. Lesson marketplaces take a heavy cut and own the student relationship — you're a listing, not a teacher with a studio. Going independent means the opposite problem: you're the scheduler, the billing department, and the collections agency. Meanwhile, if you post on YouTube or TikTok — riff breakdowns, technique demos, practice-routine videos — your comments fill with people asking for help you have no clean way to charge for. A follower who wants twenty minutes on their barre chords has no path to you that doesn't involve a DM back-and-forth and a payment app.
What music teachers sell on Cheddify
Cheddify puts one link in your bio that handles payment, scheduling, and the video call itself. You set a per-minute rate with a minimum duration, plus optional booked sessions and fixed-price blocks.
- Per-minute technique checkups — a student pays and connects live when you're available: fifteen minutes on their picking hand, a quick embouchure check, help wiring up a new pedal. The meter bills exactly what's used.
- Booked weekly lessons — your recurring students book 30- or 60-minute slots, prepaid, so a forgotten lesson isn't an unpaid hole in your afternoon.
- Fixed-price blocks — a 20-minute song critique, an audition-tape review, a setup consultation at a flat price.
- Paid DMs for practice feedback — students send a recording of this week's practice and a question; you reply with notes. It's the asynchronous lesson you've been giving away free. See how paid DMs work.
What music teachers charge
Music teachers on per-minute platforms commonly land between $1 and $4 per minute. Beginner-instrument lessons cluster around $1–$2 per minute (which maps to the familiar $60–$120/hour studio range), while specialized teaching — jazz theory, classical voice, audition coaching, production and mixing — supports $2.50–$4. Starting around $2 per minute with a 15-minute minimum is a reasonable default; your existing hourly studio rate divided by 60 is a good sanity check, and remote per-minute students often accept a modest premium for the convenience of instant, exactly-as-long-as-needed help.
The math on a real lesson
Take a 30-minute guitar lesson at $2 per minute. The student pays $60, plus about 3% card processing that the buyer covers on top — it doesn't touch your share. Cheddify's fee is 20% plus $2 per call: 20% of $60 is $12, plus $2, makes $14. You keep $46. Payouts arrive through Stripe. Full details on pricing.
Because students pay as guests in the browser, the barrier is one tap and a card. No account creation, no app install for them — which matters when your student is a parent booking for their kid, or an adult beginner who found you through a 40-second technique video.
Why not just Zoom and Venmo?
You can keep doing that — but you're the one enforcing it. Cheddify owns the call: payment clears before the video starts, the meter runs during, and overage past the minimum bills automatically. Nobody sends a payment request after the fact. If you're curious how the live-call flow works end to end, see how it works or the broader guide on charging for video calls.
The honest part
Cheddify brings you zero students. It has no marketplace and no discovery — it converts the audience you already have: your YouTube subscribers, your local studio waitlist, the commenters on your technique videos. If you don't have an audience yet and need student flow, a lesson marketplace that advertises for you is the better trade, even with its commission. Cheddify is the tool for teachers whose problem is monetizing attention they already earn.