Terza records the lesson, drafts the observation, and waits for you. You review, edit, and decide what a parent or student ever sees. Built for multiple voices and instruments in the room, the kind of environment real lessons happen in.
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You hear everything in a lesson - the breath support that’s finally steadying, the rhythm that’s still sliding, the breakthrough in measure twelve. Writing all of that down, for every student, every week, is the part that doesn’t scale. Terza captures what you already do in the room and hands it back in a form you can use.
Start the recording at the start of the lesson, with last lesson's notes a tap away. Terza moves into the background, leaving you to focus on the student.
Terza turns the recording into text while you teach.
A drafted observation is waiting shortly after the lesson ends. Read it, edit anything.
If you want one, ask Terza for a practice note, edit it, and choose whether to share it with the parent or student. Nothing leaves Terza unless you share it.
Every lesson deepens that student's record, broadens your whole studio's, and - if you opt in - sharpens the picture for every teacher on Terza.
Step 3, Review - the draft waiting after the lesson ends.
More on devices, offline recording, and what Ask Terza can do: see our FAQ.
“Terza generates. The teacher decides.”
Nothing leaves Terza without you choosing to share it. Not a setting you have to find, just the way the product works.
Multiple voices, instruments, and a room with reverb - that's what an actual lesson sounds like, and it's what Terza is built around. Every observation, and every piece and exercise you covered, links back to the exact moment in the recording it came from.
Terza doesn't assume any particular method or approach. It captures what was said in the lesson and extends it. Your pedagogy stays yours.
After a few lessons, patterns start to surface for a student - a practice habit that's slipping, a recurring pitch issue. Across your whole studio, patterns surface too. The longer you use Terza, the more useful the record gets.
Recording lessons with children is a real responsibility. Terza was designed around that from day one.
Most lesson-notes tools stop at the lesson. Terza’s record works on three scales at once.
Every lesson adds to that student's own history - a searchable, year-over-year record of what was worked on, what improved, and what's still sticking.
The same record spans every student you teach. Patterns that don't show up in a single lesson - a technique most of your beginners struggle with, a practice habit that predicts who sticks with lessons - only surface once you can see your whole studio at once.
If you choose to contribute anonymized lesson data, your studio's patterns join a much larger picture, drawn from every teacher using Terza. Nothing identifiable about you or your students is ever shared. What comes back is the kind of help and insight that's only visible at scale.
The longer Terza runs, the more it knows: for you, for your studio, and, if you opt in, for the whole community teaching alongside you.
A year of lessons is only useful if you can get answers out of it. Ask Terza answers the questions you have. Reflect points out the ones you might not think to ask.
What did we cover in Marcus’s last lesson? How long have we been on his bow hold? Which studies help with shifting? Ask Terza answers from your own lesson history and names the lessons it draws on. When your notes don’t cover it, it draws on general teaching knowledge and, if you’ve opted in, on what has worked for other teachers.
Some patterns never show up in a single lesson: the same thing stuck for several students at once. Reflect flags them, lists the students each one affects, and, where your own lessons show it easing off before, points you to that note. On each student’s profile, recurring themes surface the same way.
Both are there to inform your judgment, not replace it. Neither one sends anything to a parent or student, and both get more useful with every lesson you review.
More on Ask Terza, Reflect, and the opt-in community program: see our FAQ.
Recording minors changes what’s required of a product - verifiable parental consent, named data partners, a published retention schedule, a real security program. Terza was designed around those obligations, not patched to meet them later.
The opt-in community patterns program described above is separate from this commitment: it shares only anonymized, aggregated trends across studios, never raw audio, transcripts, or identifiable student data.
Questions about consent and student privacy? See our privacy FAQ.
Every plan includes full lesson history per student. No per-transcription caps, ever.
$14/month
Up to 5 students
Entry point for teachers with a small studio or those just starting to use Terza.
Start free trial$24/month
Up to 15 students
The standard tier for a full-time private teacher.
Start free trial$44/month
Up to 40 students
For larger studios or teachers approaching capacity on Solo.
Start free trialOn Solo ($24/month), 15 students a week works out to $0.40 per lesson: a fraction of what one lesson costs a family.
Questions about billing or plan limits? See our pricing FAQ.
Terza works with any instrument, any method, any approach. If you teach private lessons and want a clear, accurate record of every one of them, without spending your evenings writing it up, this is for you.
Terza is available on iPhone and iPad. Recording needs iPhone 12 or iPad Air (2020) or newer.
Hi, I’m Jeremy. I’m a professional cellist and software developer. After a career as a freelance cellist in London, England, I retrained as a software developer, and I’m currently a software architect for one of the largest technology companies in the world.
I’m passionate about using technology to help professional musicians, and Terza is an expression of that. I believe it can extend what music teachers can see and remember, to the benefit of students, parents, and teachers. I’m looking forward to hearing feedback and seeing how I can make Terza even more helpful for teachers.
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