Zoom For Musicians

Maestrocast is what you've been searching for:

High-fidelity audio & video built for music teaching
Seamlessly annotate sheet music live
Keep track of your lesson notes

Start Loving Teaching Online

Teaching online is now so much more enjoyable

Emma Stephenson

All Hands Piano Academy

The best online teaching platform I've ever used

David Allen

Pianist | Musical Director

Video calls built for music teaching

Instant camera switching

Never miss a detail or ask your student to move their camera again. With a single click you can change your or your students camera. This is great for instruments like the piano or drums where it's hard to get everything in one shot.

Audio and visual clarity

Using high fidelity audio means a richer experience for you and your student. Hear more, see more, and never fight with annoying auto-mute behaviour. I'm looking at you FaceTime!

Chat style lesson notes

Easily make notes before, during, or after the lesson. You keep the same thread across all your lessons with the same student so you can instantly pick up from where you left off.

Live document annotation

Instantly share sheet music or any other kind of document and annotate it to your heart's content. Breathe easy knowing that you and your student are always looking at the latest version.

Wonderful organizational tools

Lesson Calendar

Plan out your week and stay on top of things.

Manage your students and your team

Invite your students and get them setup in less than a minute. If you manage other teachers, invite them and easily manage your teaching studio.

Document management

A safe place for all your teaching documents, files, books, music, et al. Effortlessly hand out copies to your students.

Why is Maestrocast better than Zoom?

Zoom is a highly successful product for a reason, it's wonderful for business video calls. So for things important to business, it does really well. Catering to the specific needs of music education? Not so much.

Maestrocast is different. We asked ourselves "What actually makes online music lessons frustrating? What breaks the flow? What would make it feel effortless — even joyful — to teach? Then we built that.

Fight Zoom's audio settings no more!

Don't you hate it when Zoom cuts out your student's playing? It's because Zoom thinks that it's background noise since people in suits rarely whip out a Saxophone on a video call.

Maestrocast uses high fidelity audio that is designed for music teaching, so we don't interfere with the mix at all. No muting, no cutting out the top end - nothing.

Much lower latency

Zoom sends your video all the way back to it's servers before sending it to your student. This is like flying from New York to London via Singapore -- it doesn't make sense!

Maestrocast is different, it sets up a direct connection between you and your student. This means a much smaller delay, it's as close as possible to being in the same room.

Built-in sheet music annotation

Sure Zoom can screen share but can it share sheet music that you and your student can annotate at the same time? You'll have to use ANOTHER app for that

Maestrocast makes this easy. You can circle that one measure/bar that you want your student to work on. You can even turn the page for them!

You don't need Dropbox / Google Drive etc.

Sharing things with Dropbox, Google Drive, etc is a pain in the ass. You've got to create a link, then send it to the student and keep it up to date.

You can store all your files in Maestrocast and with a single click "Hand it out" to your student. It's so easy you'll be annoyed that you ever had do it another way!

Lesson notes aren't an after thought

Zoom doesn't remember what you spoke about last lesson. Why should it? It thinks you giving a business meeting.

Maestrocast has chat-style lesson notes that are with you whenever you are giving a lesson to your student. Need to remember what you worked on last week? Just scroll up.