Music Theory Tutor

About the role

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform connects thousands of students nationwide with online Music Theory tutors. As a tutor, you’ll enjoy the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a meaningful impact on students’ academic success—all from home.

Benefits

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week for tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you’d like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform—no commuting required.
• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot provides real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features to save prep time.
• We handle logistics; you simply invoice for sessions, and we manage payments.

Responsibilities

• Teach harmonic analysis, part-writing, and aural skills development.
• Guide students in identifying intervals and chords by ear, writing four-part harmony following voice-leading rules, analyzing musical form, realizing figured bass, and sight-singing with solfege.
• Connect theoretical knowledge to practical musicianship, applying music theory to composition, arranging, and performance interpretation.
• Adapt instruction using ear-training software, part-writing exercises, and score analysis to support students from beginner to advanced levels (AP Music Theory, college coursework, conservatory preparation).
• Identify and address common student challenges (e.g., aural interval identification, voice-leading rules, chromatic harmony).
• Explain concepts using multiple approaches to accommodate different learning styles.

Requirements

• Advanced mastery of music theory topics: notation, scales, key signatures, intervals, chords, chord progressions, rhythm, meter, harmony, counterpoint, and form analysis.
• Ability to teach Roman numeral analysis, voice-leading rules, four-part chorale writing, and formal structures for AP Music Theory, college courses, and conservatory auditions.
• Familiarity with music theory curricula and common student challenges.
• Strong communication skills and an engaging, adaptive teaching style.

Ways to connect with students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring: Provide personalized instruction to individual students.
• Instant Tutoring: Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you’re available.

About Varsity Tutors

Our mission is to transform learning through advanced technology, AI, and learning science to create personalized experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction tailored to their goals. Our platform matches students with the right tutors to foster better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, or Puerto Rico.