"You play piano? Could you teach my daughter?" The parent looks too desperate to turn down, yet your thoughts run wild. "Me? Teach piano? I can barely play myself! Do they know what they're trying to get themselves into?!"

"Me? Teach Piano?" is a simple guide to clear up some of your questions as you learn a down-to-earth approach to creating piano policies, interacting with students, and choosing the correct curriculum.

Table of Contents:
1. Welcome to the World of Teaching
- Can you do this?
- Not all musicians are teachers
- When a pianist should begin teaching
- Some personal advice
- The one thing I wish I knew

2. Running a Piano Studio
- How do you get students?
- Where should you teach?
- How much should you charge?
- How to organize billing/payments
- Creating a studio policy
- Scheduling lessons
- Recitals
- How to organize lessons or lesson plans

3. Parents and Students
- You and the parents
- You and the students
- Practice
- Student problems

4. About Books
- Lesson books and beyond
- Supplemental material
- Duets
- Theory
- Hymn Playing

5. About Teaching
- The fundamentals (piano keys, finger numbers, note reading, timing, chords, cadences)
- This thing called “ear”