For piano teachers
Teach the right students anywhere,
and actually hear them play.
Find students who fit how you teach. Then teach them on a platform built around the piano, so lessons feel like sitting side by side.
- Free Match listing
- You set your rates
- Works on the devices you already own
“I’ve used Zoom and OBS setups, and hands down this is the best I’ve ever experienced.”
Teresa A. Kelly, Piano Teacher and Music Educator
Students listed on MatchLive staff & virtual keyboardHands, face & keys at onceSound familiar?
You’re a great teacher. Distance and "original sound" keep getting in the way.
You lost that student to a move, not to a better teacher.
They loved their lessons. Then the job changed or the family relocated, and your studio shrank by one.
Your teaching radius is 20 minutes. Your ability isn’t.
Your schedule has empty slots, and the students who would fill them live somewhere else.
Video calls flatten everything you trained your ear to hear.
Dynamics, pedaling and tone get squeezed through a laptop mic, so you end up correcting what you can’t really hear.
Your online studio is five apps taped together.
Zoom for video, OBS for a second camera, a notes app, email for recordings, and a separate link for scheduling.
The lesson ends. The admin doesn’t.
Writing up notes, sending recordings, and re-explaining last week’s fingering by text message.
From teachers who made the switch
Teachers hear the difference on the first lesson.
I’ve used Zoom and OBS setups, and hands down this is the best I’ve ever experienced. MIDI isn’t necessary, but it allows for students to actually hear your nuanced performance on THEIR keyboard! They can also play duets with you! Yes, you can try it out for free. In fact you receive 4 free time blocks monthly, which means a student won’t ever need to pay. I have pivoted back to in person teaching, but use 1on1 Piano for my remaining online students.
My longtime students are so pleased with the sound, and my brand-new students appreciate how simple it is to connect. The ability to share two or three cameras at once, including the virtual keyboard, really elevates my professional online presence.
Online lessons started for me in 2020 by necessity. I have tried several platforms the past few years and none are as amazing as 1on1 Piano! I love that I can link 2 digital pianos together across different time zones! Instead of listening to my student play through my phone’s speaker, I hear them as if they are playing on my own piano and they hear me playing on theirs! It doesn’t get any better than that!
1on1 Piano is the online tool that will revolutionize piano studios around the world. Now teachers can reach students anywhere, reliably, with high sound quality and at an affordable price.
What changes
Built around the piano, not the meeting room.
Three things teachers tell us they needed from online lessons, and never got from a video call.
Find students beyond your zip code.
List yourself free on Match. Students filter by age group, music style, skill level and personality, so the ones who reach out already fit how you teach.
Hear what they’re really playing.
Connect two digital pianos over MIDI and their performance plays on your instrument, with duet-level latency. No MIDI? Real acoustic piano tone comes through by default.
Do less work after the lesson.
Recordings of your scenes, staff, keyboard and MIDI save to the cloud automatically. Transcripts, summaries and a file library are included for everyone.
In the lesson
Show every detail a student needs to improve.
Your face, your hands, the score and the keyboard, all on screen at once, with angles you switch in a tap.
Every angle, no OBS
Built-in scenes with multiple cameras and an instant camera switcher.
Live staff and chords
Notes and chords appear on a staff as they’re played over MIDI, so theory clicks in the moment.
A metronome that listens
The metronome syncs to the player’s MIDI instead of ticking along on its own.
Mark up the score
Annotate the music during the lesson. It stays in the student’s file library after.
1on1 Piano doesn’t teach. You do.
Built by piano teachers, for teachers. We bring the room, the sound and the students who are looking for you. The teaching is all yours.
The short version
Zoom and Meet were built for meetings. This was built for lessons.
| Built for… | 1on1 Piano Music lessons | Zoom Video meetings | Google Meet Video meetings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sound for music | Real acoustic piano tone by default, or lossless via MIDI with duet-level latency | “Original Sound” mode, set up per device by the student | No dedicated music mode; student must change hidden settings |
| Multiple camera angles | Built-in scenes with multiple cameras and an instant switcher. No OBS needed. | One camera at a time; OBS or similar for scenes | One camera at a time; OBS or similar for scenes |
| Piano-to-piano (MIDI) | Connects up to 100 digital pianos; adapts to weak internet | Not supported | Not supported |
| Lesson recording | Records your scenes, virtual staff and keyboard, plus MIDI. Saves to the cloud automatically. | Unformatted video only; cloud recording on paid plans | Unformatted video only; recording on paid plans only |
| Transcripts, summaries and file library | Included for all users | AI Companion on paid plans, no document cloud | Gemini notes on paid plans, no document cloud |
| Find new students | Free Student Finder | Not available | Not available |
| Pricing | Every feature for everyone. Pay only for hours used. 4 free hours every month. | Free with 40-minute cap, or Pro about $14/month | Free with 60-minute group cap, or a paid Google plan |
Zoom and Google Meet details from their public plan info, Sept 2026. Plans and prices may change.
Try it with real students
Start free. Stay for the sound.
No tiers and no feature gates. Every teacher gets every tool.
Free Match listing
Create your profile and get found by students who are looking for a teacher like you, wherever they live.
Free every month
Four free hours of lessons every month, so you can try it with real students before you pay anything.
Set your rates
Pay only for the hours you use, with every feature included. What you charge your students is up to you.
Your next students are somewhere else
Go meet them.
Create your free teacher profile in a few minutes and start teaching beyond your zip code.
Works on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook. Open the web app