New Student Checklist

David

Wel­come to the David M. Glas­gow music stu­dio!  I try my best to use tech­nol­o­gy to make it easy to focus on the music-mak­ing as we work together—scheduling, billing, and exchang­ing mate­ri­als are all han­dled online, and auto­mat­i­cal­ly as much as pos­si­ble.

In order to make that hap­pen, there are a few steps I ask all stu­dents to take as they begin to study with me—just scroll down a bit to get start­ed. 

If you have any ques­tions about any of these steps, or run into any dif­fi­cul­ty, I’m here for you!

For all students:

None of these first five items is strict­ly required, but each of them will make it eas­i­er for you to get the most out of your lessons.

1.

Set up your Acuity Scheduling account.

An Acu­ity Sched­ul­ing client account linked to my stu­dio offers many ben­e­fits, includ­ing allow­ing you to con­firm and change all of your les­son appoint­ments online at any time.  The great news is that if you clicked “Sign Up” in the sched­uler win­dow when you booked your Ini­tial Con­sul­ta­tion, you already have an Acu­ity client account, and we’re already linked up!

But don’t worry—even if you did­n’t, all is not lost.  There’s a lit­tle mag­ic trick you can use to rem­e­dy the sit­u­a­tion.  Just vis­it the VPMC Sched­uler, click “Sign Up” to cre­ate your Acu­ity account, and then reg­is­ter for any upcom­ing class.  (You can even can­cel your reg­is­tra­tion as soon as you receive the con­fir­ma­tion email, if you don’t want to com­mit yet to the class.) 

That should do it!

2.

Bookmark the Scheduler page.

To make it super easy to con­firm or change your upcom­ing appoint­ments, please book­mark my Online Sched­uler on what­ev­er browser(s) and/or device(s) you com­mon­ly use.  Log­ging in there will let you resched­ule or can­cel upcom­ing lessons up to 24 hours pri­or to the les­son.

3.

Set up your login information for my website.

Cer­tain areas of my site are avail­able only to reg­is­tered users.  To facil­i­tate your access, I will cre­ate a user account for you when you begin lessons with me.  When I do that, the sys­tem will send you an email with the sub­ject:

[David M. Glasgow, musician] Login Details

(If you can’t locate that email—after check­ing your spam fold­er, just in case—just let me know and I can eas­i­ly re-send it.)

That email will include your Word­Press user­name for my site (usu­al­ly your first and last name, all low­er­case, with no space, e.g., “david­glas­gow”), and a link to an URL at davidmglasgow.com (again, with HTML-geek code) that will allow you to set your own pass­word for login.  This is a dif­fer­ent login than your Acu­ity client account, but you may use the same pass­word if that’s eas­i­er for you (as long as you don’t tell any­one who works in online secu­ri­ty that I sug­gest­ed it).

4.

Bookmark the Resource Library.

I’ve curat­ed an ever-expand­ing library of resources that I find use­ful, inter­est­ing, or just fun for my stu­dents.  That Resource Library also includes a file brows­er that will allow logged-in stu­dents to access the files I’ve shared with them via Google Dri­ve.

5.

Connect with me on “the socials”

I don’t have a pres­ence on either Insta­gram or The Plat­form For­mer­ly Known As Twit­ter, but I am active with fair fre­quen­cy on both BlueSky and Face­book, and would be hap­py to make your acquain­tance on either or both of those plat­forms.

For in-person students:

6.

Submit your P5 Paperwork and proof of COVID vaccination

If we’ll be meet­ing in per­son, I’ll need a copy of your COVID vac­ci­na­tion card show­ing you’ve received a vac­cine or boost­er with­in the last 18 months.

And if we’ll be meet­ing at The Per­fect 5th, the own­ers of P5 would like for me to col­lect two addi­tion­al forms from you.  You can down­load blanks from here.

You may sub­mit all of these items via my File Upload page, or just bring them with you to our first ses­sion. 

For Subscription Plan students:

7.

Store a payment method for your subscription.

If you’d like to take advan­tage of my Sub­scrip­tion Plan pric­ing, you’ll need to store a pay­ment method with your sub­scrip­tion.  You should have received an email from me when I set up your sub­scrip­tion, with the sub­ject line:

Your personal subscription payment link

(If you can’t locate that email—after check­ing your spam fold­er, just in case—just let me know and I can eas­i­ly re-send it.)

There’s a link in that email that points to davidmglasgow.as.me (fol­lowed by a bunch of HTML-geek gib­ber­ish).  Click that link and fol­low the instruc­tions there to store your pay­ment method with Acu­ity Sched­ul­ing.

Pay­ments are processed through Stripe, and I nev­er have access to your pay­ment infor­ma­tion.