Musical Life Denver, located in Englewood, CO, has an immediate opening for a piano, voice, drums, guitar, and bass teacher on Tuesdays - Saturdays. We are looking for someone that has experience working with both adults and children as young as four. Multiple instrumentalists preferred but not required.
Our mission is to help out students become musicians for life. We value fun, community, and empowering our students with the tools the need to live a life filled with music.
What makes us unique is our emphasis on jamming and playing together. All students have access to weekly jam sessions and our entire approach and curriculum is based on making life-long jammers. We also have performance bands (rock/pop/etc) and epic concerts every 4 months. Looking for someone who can teach both private and group classes. Our team works closely together, striving toward a common goal, not as 'hired guns.'
Who's on the team? We are all passionate active musicians - but we are equally passionate about our professions as music teachers. We are hikers, campers, mountain bikers, skaters, snowboarders, concert goers, pet lovers, and generally positive people.
Compensation, Hours, Perks
We have lots of open space on Friday and Saturday to start, with a potential for more days once those are filled. We are looking for people who want to teach 4-6 hours on Tuesday-Friday (in the afternoon and evenings) and 4-8 hours on Saturday (during the day.)
Starting pay is $34-$42 per hour while teaching (based on qualifications).
Supportive and communicative management and ongoing training to help you do your job better and more easily.
A bonus structure that rewards our top performers.
Paid Sick Leave, Paid Time Off, Solid Office with effective communication.
The opportunity to grow with the company (if you wish.)
Job Requirements
Teaching Experience
You must be a professional music teacher with a minimum of 3 consecutive years of experience. We need someone who can hit the ground running and be excellent from their first day.
You must be excellent at working with children aged four and up.
You must have an extensive repository of teaching resources and curricula at your disposal.
You must have a meaningful amount of experience teaching in a group format, coaching bands, or leading jam sessions.
Personal Skills
We want to hire someone friendly, enthusiastic, and fun. A “smack-your-hands-with-the-ruler-if-you-don’t-play-right" teaching style will not fit in with our culture or brand.
Though we are looking for someone with an established teaching style and skill set, we would like someone who is also joyfully open to coaching and feedback.
We’re looking for personable people who genuinely love helping students grow.
High every, fun-loving, always making it a good time attitude.
Required Musical Aptitudes/Proficiency
Piano:
General musical sense - you can sit down and play the piano without warming up and without being shy.
Ability to read music and play basic classical piano and some jazz
Knowledge and experience teaching from some of the most well known teaching books, aka piano adventures and Alfred.
Ability to play chords/read chord charts, improvise, play by ear, and have a experience playing both in groups and solos.
Ability to help arrange music (pop and rock songs) for kids based on their level in a way that will support them in the bands
Working knowledge of theory. Able to play and explain all the basic chord and scale relationships - and can rip them using proper fingering.
Ability to quickly identify technical and musical issues, and create clear and actionable paths forward for the students.
Voice:
A vocal range of at least three octaves or more.
Comfortable singing in a variety of styles. (Blues, rock, pop, show tunes etc.)
Able to sight-sing, and also improvise on the fly.
Able to identify physiological deficiencies in posture, support, breathing, mouth shape, etc. and coach students to improve.
Able to create, hear, and sing harmonies. Must be able to teach them as both notes and intervals.
Able to sing and play the piano simultaneously.
Guitar:
General musical sense - you can pick up the guitar and play without warming up and without being shy.
Sound knowledge of the fretboard, notes, chords, and an ability to read tab (ability to read musical notation is preferred, but not required.)
A vast understanding of different guitar learning trajectories, and a wide repository and repertoire of music and skills to teach. We are not looking for someone who scribbles tabs at every lesson and has no resources ready to go.
Ability to play in variety of musical styles: Rock, Blues, Acoustic (extra points if you can play some jazz, classical, or metal.
Ability to improvise, read chord symbols, play by ear, quickly learn songs.
Ability to arrange songs to suite the students needs and skill levels.
A working knowledge of how to use learning and musical technology such as tab websites, notation software, garage band or similar, etc.
Drums:
General musical sense - you can sit down and play without warming up and without being shy.
Ability to read drum notation
Extensive knowledge of different styles of drums, including rock, blues, pop, funk, metal, punk, etc.
Ability to break down complex problems into simple, bite-size chunks for students
Ability to give clear directions on what and how to practice.
Your Responsibilities
As a teacher at Musical Life Denver, you’ll work closely with, and report directly to management. Your performance will be measured using four metrics:
1. Monthly retention average.
2. Student lesson attendance average.
3. Average percentage of the student body who participate in extra curriculums like jams, bands, and concerts.
4. Quarterly performance reviews where we'll discuss the feedback from students and parents.
In addition to your classes, you will also attend the occasional staff meeting and participate in our Student Showcases at least three times a year, on the weekend. We compensate for these at an admin rate of $20/hr.
How to Contact
If you're interested in this position, please apply on indeed so we can schedule a short, friendly telephone interview. If that goes well, we'll schedule a time for an audition and in-person meeting (interview and musical auditon,) followed by some demo teaching (if selected.)
Job Type: Part-time
Salary: $34.00 - $40.00 per hour
Expected hours: 10 – 30 per week
Benefits:
Flexible schedule
Paid time off
Parental leave
Professional development assistance
Schedule:
4 hour shift
8 hour shift
After school
Day shift
Evening shift
Monday to Friday
Weekends as needed
Supplemental pay types:
Bonus opportunities
Experience:
Teaching: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: In person