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Lessons, by Eric Branner

Lessons: A Modern Guide to the Business of Teaching Music

Alfred Music · March 2026

Most music teachers learn to teach. Few learn to run a business. Lessons covers pricing, policies, marketing, and the systems that turn a teaching practice into a studio that lasts. It draws on two decades of teaching and on building Fons, now MakeMusic Studio.

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The Blackforrest Guitar Companion

The Blackforrest Guitar Companion

Book one of the Blackforrest Learning Series

A reference for every student of the guitar: chords, scales, intervals, and the theory that connects them, from open chords to modes and the CAGED system. Keep it in your case or on your music stand.

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