Timetables

A music school timetable that actually fits.

A school timetable is a grid, and a music school grid is harder than most: one-to-one lessons, many instruments, rooms with different gear, and families who can only come at certain times.

Why a music timetable is not a class timetable

Classroom timetabling moves groups of students through fixed periods. A music school has hundreds of separate half-hour and hour slots, each tied to one student, one teacher, and often one room.

Set the Tune builds that kind of timetable. Each lesson is a unit with its own duration, instrument, and allowed windows, and the grid view shows teachers across the week so you can see a clash the moment it exists.

Rooms, gear, and who can use what

A drum kit does not fit in the violin room, and the grand piano lives in one place. A timetable that ignores that gives you lessons nobody can teach where they were placed.

Group classes can be saved against a venue, and a class with two teachers blocks both of them while it runs. The optimizer treats a class a teacher is teaching as time that teacher is not free for a private lesson.

  • ♩Private lessons and group classes on one board
  • ♩Co-taught classes block both teachers
  • ♩Saved venues for recurring classes

Print it, share it, subscribe to it

Once the timetable is settled, it has to reach teachers and front-desk staff in a form they use. Teachers can subscribe to a personal calendar feed that updates when the schedule does.

The full timetable exports as CSV for spreadsheets and as PDF for the wall of the front office. Both are part of the paid plan, and both are built to survive real names with accents and apostrophes.

Common questions

Does it make a weekly timetable view?

Yes. The workbench shows a week grid by teacher, so you can see gaps, overlaps, and long days at a glance.

Can it handle rooms as well as teachers?

Group classes are tied to a saved venue. Private lessons are scheduled by teacher and, for in-home teaching, by the student’s address.

Can I print the timetable?

You can export a PDF and a CSV. Exports are part of the paid plan.

How is this different from a general timetabling tool?

General tools model classes and periods. Set the Tune models one-to-one lessons, instrument matching, family availability, sibling grouping, and drive time, which is what a music school needs.

What if the timetable changes mid-term?

Edit a lesson and it is re-checked on the spot, along with the other lessons it touches. Confirmed lessons stay put when you re-run the optimizer.

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What Set the Tune doesn't do.
Tuition invoicing, attendance, parent portals, family messaging. On purpose. Set the Tune is the scheduling layer. It builds the calendar your admin tools manage. If you run those elsewhere, keep them and use both.

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