At Midnight Music,

we help you boost classroom outcomes, engage students on a deeper level and inspire a lifelong love of music

We’re passionate about providing a safe place for you to build up your music technology skills, and become a stronger, more confident teacher for your students. Through our supportive online community, and world-class, beginner-friendly programs, you can integrate technology into your classroom without a dose of guesswork!

Discover more about who we are, and how we can help you achieve this…

Hi, I’m Katie Argyle

Midnight Music founder, global music teacher educator,
and your classroom’s new best friend

I’m on a mission to take the fear factor out of using technology in music education. Over the past 12+ years, I’ve travelled the world, training thousands of teachers at countless schools, and speaking at over 100 conferences globally. Let me tell you – if you’ve ever thought you were an anomaly when it came to music-technology-overwhelm… you’re absolutely not!

Truthfully, there are so many incredibly smart and highly capable teachers feeling limited in their ability to make an impact on their student’s lives… all because of tech overwhelm. Afterall, music technology is the new kid in town, taking classrooms by storm and helping educate, engage, and inspire students in their love for music… that is, when it’s not wreaking havoc on your sanity, and causing major classroom disruptions!

I want to help you reap all
the benefits of technology

in your classroom to make your
teaching lighter, easier and
more enjoyable

Now more than ever, it’s crucial to understand, master, and utilise technology in your classroom (in combination with hands-on playing and skill-building lessons). As a music teacher, your classroom experience is unique, and you deserve to have specific support, resources and advice to help your students thrive… yet, there is little available to help you do exactly that.

That’s why we’re on a mission to put an end to this, and change the game for music teachers globally! By simplifying software, demystifying programs, and helping you feel more confident using digital resources in your classroom, you can see your students succeed and fall in love with music in new ways.

I can’t wait to help you rewrite your classroom’s story. But first, let me share some more of mine with you...

I’ve always had a love for music. Like you can probably testify as well, it’s part of who I am! So when I left school, I knew I wanted to spend my life focusing on music. In 1994, I graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Music (Education – Honours). But, despite my passion for music, I still wasn’t 100% sure I wanted to go straight into teaching. I decided to “just see what happens”, and ended up in a variety of jobs – working retail as my day job while freelancing as a copyist, arranger, and project manager for a professional orchestra.

I was offered a job at Sibelius Australia… despite being a self-proclaimed “technophobe”. The role combined my two loves: working with music notation, and helping people use the notation software more effectively! Much of the work was with teachers who used Sibelius to create scores and teaching materials.

I discovered that explaining aspects of technology for teachers came naturally to me, and as a result, I could help make their lives a little easier. My role also included spending one day a week as the Sibelius tech support person for Australia (aka. A baptism by fire). This got me quickly in-shape as an expert in software, operating systems, school networking issues and more!

After it was time to move on from Sibelius, I decided to run tech-based workshops for teachers in Australia. My software repertoire was relatively limited at first (and admittedly, sometimes I found myself learning a program from scratch just a few days ahead of a workshop!) But I knew I’d found my sweet spot… I put together a basic website, started a simple blog as a place to share information, and published my first Youtube tutorial. I also presented regularly at conferences all across Australia! This year also marked my very first “free tech resources for music teachers” workshop, which proved very popular!

Hello, Apple iPads! When these handy, portable devices dropped into the market, it created a wave of opportunity and demand for training to help teachers utilise them in the classroom. So, I went out and purchased my first iPad, gave myself a crash course, and began adding workshops to my offering based around this new tech.

This was a BIG year for my idea-turned-actual-business. Midnight Music was growing, and I started getting training enquiries from teachers in other countries too! So, I decided to run live, online courses. These live sessions were recorded in case participants couldn’t attend in real time – great, in theory. But in reality? The 2012 internet was slow, the sound quality was terrible, the video was choppy, and most participants had never participated in an online webinar before! Even despite these technical difficulties, teachers were enthusiastic and the Midnight Music audience grew. I also began to sell “Replay passes” for each course, so teacher’s could take them in their own time, and I realised that asynchronous courses were a better approach.

Still in that year, I created the first version of my now annual Ultimate Guide to Free Tech Resources for Music Teachers – a PDF collection of free music websites, software and other resources. The guide has been published every year since. I was also invited by Kate Hargreaves of Music EDU to write the Studio Sessions program for middle school students. This includes music technology projects, and a performance element. The program – part of the MusicEDU Suite – is still going strong!

I started to put together a collection of music lesson plans for the iPad, with the idea of creating an eBook. I ended up self-publishing the book and creating a series of tutorials to go with each lesson. For the first time, I made tutorials specifically for the students, so teacher’s could simply play them in class (instead of having to master and demonstrate the technical aspects themselves). The iPad ebook and videos were a huge hit, and an updated version of these lessons still exists inside the Midnight Music Community training library. Throughout the year, I ran fourteen 4-week online courses, some concurrently. I was also inducted into the Music Education Hall of Fame by the Association of Music Educators (VIC)!

In 2015, I was invited to be keynote speaker at the Australian Society of Music Education’s national conference. Later that same year, I was invited again to the Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa national conference! I was certainly building up my portfolio of speaking gigs. Today, I’ve spoken at over 100 conferences all around the world!

After a hectic few years of running live online courses and in-person workshops, I knew it was time to make a change. Instead of running courses at a specific time, it became clear that it would be better to provide an online training library of the Midnight Music courses, so they were available 24/7 when someone needed them. My email inbox was overflowing with tech-related questions from teachers all over the world – it was getting impossible to reply to them all! So, I launched the Midnight Music Community: a hub for all my training courses, and a beginner-friendly forum where members could ask questions and share tips about technology. This same year I was also invited to speak internationally at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention.

The Midnight Music Community was booming, attracting teachers from all around the world into a safe learning environment curated just for them and their unique classroom environment. I decided to launch my Music Tech Teacher podcast to provide additional support. I also expanded my training library and resources inside the community with courses such as Audacity – Simple Recording and Audio Editing for Music Teachers, Film Scoring and Movie Soundtracks, Creative Projects for GarageBand and iPad Projects for the Music Classroom.

I ran my first free challenge: 5 Music Tech Lessons in 5 Days. More than 1200 music teachers registered for the challenge, and joined a Facebook group where they could learn a new tech project each day. They became the students for the week, and had to complete “homework” to share with other participants. There was a huge buzz among the participants, and it was clear that the teachers got a lot out of working together through a course as a group. This year, I also presented two workshops at the International Society for Technology in Education conference in Philadelphia, USA.

I launched a new course for Midnight Music Community members called Create Beautiful Teaching Resources With Canva. This was a “do along with me” course, with 5 modules released week-by-week (and is my most popular online course to date). Once the pandemic hit and schools around the world moved online, the demand for technology training went through the roof. The Midnight Music Community grew to more than 1000+ members. Knowing I wanted to help teachers in this difficult time, I delivered a series of free, in-depth webinars all around music technology. There were 15 throughout the year attended by more than 20,000 teachers. One of my music tech lesson plans was also published in The Music Technology Cookbook (Oxford University Press).

This year, I continued to sew into my community, providing support and resources to help bridge the gap between remote, in-person and hybrid learning that had become the “new normal”. I launched the Video Creation for Music Teacher’s course inside the Midnight Music Community, and published the 9th edition of the Ultimate Free Music Tech Resources Guide. I also relaunched the Music Tech Teacher podcast (after a much-needed break!).

Now, I am more committed than ever to helping teachers globally integrate music technology into their classrooms without the overwhelm. With an incredible team now around me, we’re continuing to provide new, updated training, hands-on support, and useful resources both within the Midnight Music Community, and to our wider audiences. I’ve never been more certain that I’m in the perfect place, and it’s a great joy to partner with incredible educators just like you on your journey to change the lives of your student’s and inspire a lifelong love of music!

Hear from these incredible music educators…

You have been so helpful! I have never been a techy person but after going through your webinars, I feel more at ease and think “I can do this.” Thank you.

Charis Murphy

How much do I love having found you?!!! Your youtube video on how to create flashcards has allowed me to create 4 levels of a piano curriculum series. The pace and detail of your videos are so perfect. You always directly teach the subject, again, answering questions before they arise and I never find myself thinking, “just get to the point.”I just discovered your website and I can’t wait to see what else I can learn from you. You are wonderful in every way!

Jeffrey Pettijohn

Thank you for all the incredible webinars and trainings I have learnt so much in the last 6 months, that I wish I’d known sooner. I appreciate all that you do to share the knowledge you have.

Sal Stow

Are you ready to

say goodbye to tech-stress, and seamlessly integrate technology into your music classroom?

Whether your student’s are brand new to school, or soon to graduate, you have an opportunity to help them fall in love with music for years to come! If you’re ready to put overwhelm aside, and access a safe, supportive and beginner-friendly place to build up your tech-skills, the Midnight Music Community is here for you. Join today, and don’t spend another day struggling with technology in your classroom.

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