I Will Build Your YouTube Channel& Have It Attracting Students Within 30 Days.
Step 1: Watch This Video Below
- Coaching musicians since 2023
With my Studio Engine, I tell you exactly what to record, then build the system that turns the right viewers into applications for your program. No trends. No chasing viral.
Results from musicians who teach
Harrisson Ball
Trumpet coach, Precision Brass
596% return on the program cost in his first five days.
Harrisson is in my Done For You program: I do everything for him. He used to get several new clients a month, all through ads. Now dozens come in every month from organic social media, and his YouTube channel is monetized, so it pays him passive income too. He could run his whole business on YouTube alone, which matters: his Facebook ads account has been hacked twice.
Several new students joined his year-long trumpet program within his first week with me. I aim for students within 30 days.
His Meta ads, seven months in:
- 78%lower cost per client
- 3xmore new clients per month
- 3x → 16xreturn on ad spend
- 29%less ad spend to get there
Harrisson | Trumpet coach, Precision Brass
Now earns more teaching online than from his professional symphony job.
“I went from literally zero, not having an online business, not knowing how to create YouTube videos or how to go viral on Instagram, to having a successful business… I’m free from a job. I became free only with a phone and a laptop.”
He has since joined my Done For You program and is seeing a big jump in students. His first video got 50,000 views.
Victor | Solo trombone, Helsinki Philharmonic
Students are now applying to her program.
“Right before I joined this program, I was really stuck with my career… Just being able to reach this global community is something that I didn’t think would happen in my life… I really think joining this program at the beginning of the year is the best decision I made in my life.”
Her second long-form YouTube video got 200,000 views.
Sohee | Concert pianist
Viola newsletter from 0 to 2,500 in under 5 months. 25,000+ leads from one automated system.
“Even just on ManyChat, I think I got like 25 or 30,000 contacts, potential leads… No matter where I go now, when there are violists, a lot of the viola students have seen my videos… Definitely, it’s been transformative in many, many ways.”
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
Sound Familiar?
- Your students come from referrals, word of mouth or ads, so enrollment is up one month and down the next.
- You're paying for Meta ads or an expensive website platform, and the leads aren't qualified.
- You watch musicians with, let's be honest, mediocre playing go viral, and it feels like you're falling behind.
- You've been stuck at the same income for months, if not years.
You don't need to go viral. You need the right viewers finding your teaching, and a system that turns them into applications for your program.
How the Studio Engine works
I tell you exactly what to record, so the right viewers find you and want lessons.
You record. For some of you, I edit the videos too, so recording is your only job.
Every video gets repurposed and posted across platforms automatically.
This is probably the best high register video I've ever seen on this platform.
Good grief!, 4 minutes in and I have way more useful information than I found in the 101 videos I watched on this topic before this one. Not joking. Great video! Thank you!
ive been playing 15 years, and this is the best presentation of embrochure to mouthpiece mechanics giving respect to air flow and significance. bravo mate. i will confirm my set up using VAS and we'll see how it goes. i used to switch and jaw out for super range. but my embrochure died
best piano teacher on youtube, by far, for experienced players
Viewers who already trust your teaching apply through your own website, and the booking system filters out anyone who isn't a fit.
If you also run Meta ads, they get cheaper. Harrisson's cost per client dropped 78% in seven months.
Meet Tim
Why should you trust a trombone influencer? Fair question. Start with the students. I built my own private lesson studio to hundreds of students through my content, while commuting to Yale. Harrisson had several new students join his trumpet program in his first week with me. Victor now earns more teaching online than from his symphony job.
I'm Tim Maines. I trained as an orchestral trombonist, with degrees from Yale, Northwestern and UT Austin, and I performed with The Temptations, The O'Jays, the Richmond Symphony and the Chicago Symphony. I left the orchestra track because performance anxiety was going to eat me alive.
My own channel, Trombone Timo, has over a billion views and more than a million followers across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Every system I set up for clients, I built on my own content first.
I'm not a marketing agency that learned music. I'm a musician who figured out content. If your teaching deserves more students than referrals are sending you, that's the gap I close.
More musicians, in their own words
Victor | Solo trombone, Helsinki Philharmonic
I´m winning more money than with the orchestra, literally...
Skool Wins post
Steve | Sound sculptor, Austin TX
In 'Funeral for a Tree,' dead wood becomes a meditation on memory and loss
KUT News (NPR Austin), Jan 8, 2026 · Read the story
Robinson's Remedies | Lip care brand
Clearly social media work of Tim is working
Message to Tim
Steve | Sound sculptor, Austin TX
FUNERAL FOR A TREE: wooden records carved from a felled live oak, cut into playable discs.
Instagram reel, 79K likes · Watch on Instagram
Sohee | Concert pianist
My one reel from earlier this week got 198.2k views and instantly gained almost 3k followers on FB.
Skool Wins post
Harrisson | Trumpet coach, Precision Brass
YouTube Studio, last 90 days
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
Viola+violin newsletter got to 2500 people in less than 5 months (started in august).
Skool Wins post
Robinson's Remedies | Lip care brand
YouTube Studio, 365 days
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
One month work with @Tim Maines !
Skool Wins post
Big Wy's Brass Band | Brass Ensemble
Pinned videos
Client message
Someone PIF after seeing it (Not Opting in)
WhatsApp
Steve | Sound sculptor, Austin TX
I was singing your praises to the gallery earlier today
Skool comment
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival | Classical Festival
YouTube
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
it is looking like we will have 300 people on the list by the end of the day!
Skool comment
Sohee | Concert pianist
YouTube
Robinson's Remedies | Lip care brand
YouTube
Harrisson | Trumpet coach, Precision Brass
YouTube
Lesson clip
Lesson clip
Steve | Sound sculptor, Austin TX
In 'Funeral for a Tree,' Steve Parker Etches Bird Song into Playable Oak Records
Colossal, Jan 15, 2026 · Read the story
Victor | Solo trombone, Helsinki Philharmonic
YouTube
Robinson's Remedies | Lip care brand
YouTube Studio, lifetime
Big Wy's Brass Band | Brass Ensemble
Applebee's x Big Wy's Brass Band Social Media Collab
Steve | Sound sculptor, Austin TX
Some baby steps, thanks to Tim
Skool Wins post
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
YouTube
Lesson clips
Lesson clips
Robinson's Remedies | Lip care brand
YouTube
Harrisson | Trumpet coach, Precision Brass
YouTube channel
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival | Classical Festival
YouTube channel
Sohee | Concert pianist
YouTube channel
Third Coast Trombone Retreat
Victor | Solo trombone, Helsinki Philharmonic
YouTube channel
Robinson's Remedies | Lip care brand
YouTube channel
Wilhelm | Viola soloist and teacher
YouTube channel
Is this for you?
This is for you if
- You already sell a premium coaching program, often a year-long one.
- You want new students every month, not only when a referral comes through.
- You play or teach professionally, and you don't have time to become a full-time content creator.
- You're willing to record yourself regularly.
This is not for you if
- You're just starting out and don't have a program to sell yet.
- You're looking for more gigs, not more students.
- You want to go viral for fame.
- You're not willing to record yourself regularly.
What happens on the call
- We look at your program, your channel and where your students come from right now.
- You leave knowing exactly what to record first, even if we never work together.
- It's an application. I only take coaches I know I can help, so if it isn't a fit, I'll tell you.
Questions Musicians Ask Me
If I teach everything online, won't people just steal it and never buy from me?
They can't steal the part they pay for. A free video shows how you teach, but it can't hear them play or fix their exact problem. Victor got 50,000 views on his first video, and he now earns more teaching online than from his symphony job.
I don't have time to become a content creator.
You don't have to become one. You show up in front of the camera. I build your website and funnel, tune your videos for every platform and automate the posting, and for some of you, I edit the videos too.
I don't want to do TikTok trends or chase going viral.
You don't have to. No weird trends, nothing crazy, and no viral video needed. You show your expertise on camera, and the right viewers find it.
What will my colleagues think? I can't risk my professional reputation.
For my clients, it went the other way. Wilhelm gets invited to teach at festivals, Victor gets asked to play recitals, and Sohee has met university deans because of her videos.
I've paid marketing people before, and it didn't work.
I'm not a marketing agency. I'm a musician, so everything gets built around your playing and your teaching, and you join a community of professional musicians doing the same thing. In seven months, Harrisson's cost per client dropped 78%, his new clients per month tripled, and his return on ad spend went from 3x to 16x on 29% less ad spend.
Let's make YouTube a steady source of students.
Tell me about your program, and I'll tell you what to record first.
Book a chat with Tim