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Professionals · code 2354

Other music teachers

Other music teachers teach students in the practice, theory and performance of music outside the mainstream primary, secondary and higher education systems, but may provide private or small group tuition as an extracurricular activity in association with mainstream educational institutions. Tasks include - (a) assessing the students’ level of ability and determining needs and learning goals; (b) planning, preparing and delivering programmes of study, lessons and workshops for individual students and groups; (c) preparing and presenting material on the theory and interpretation of music; (d) instructing and demonstrating practical aspects of singing or of playing a particular instrument; (e) teaching students to read and write musical notation; (f) assigning exercises and teaching pieces of music relevant to students’ level of ability, interests and talents; (g) assessing students and offering advice, criticism and encouragement; (h) revising curricula, course content, course materials and methods of instruction; (i) preparing students for examinations, performances and assessments; (j) arranging visits and tours to musical performances; (k) organizing and assisting in auditions or performances of students’ work. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Guitar teacher (private tuition) - Piano teacher (private tuition) - Singing teacher (private tuition) - Violin teacher (private tuition) Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - University lecturer - 2310 - Vocational education teacher - 2320 - Secondary school teacher - 2330 - Primary school teacher - 2341 Notes Regular secondary and primary school teachers who teach music are classified in Unit Groups 2330: Secondary Education Teachers, and 2341: Primary School Teachers respectively.

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 280 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • music teacher

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64.6
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 35.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 35.4 = 64.6

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

29.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

17.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 26.9 · hand skill 19.7 · cramped spaces 6.3 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 29.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 56, while the average is 35.4. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 56

    Revising curricula, course content, course materials and methods of instruction

    Medium
  2. 45

    Arranging visits and tours to musical performances

    Low
  3. 41

    Preparing and presenting material on the theory and interpretation of music

    Low
  4. 35

    Teaching students to read and write musical notation

    Low
  5. 35

    Preparing students for examinations, performances and assessments

    Low
  6. 33.8

    Assigning exercises and teaching pieces of music relevant to students’ level of ability, interests and talents

    Low
  7. 33

    Organizing and assisting in auditions or performances of students' work.

    Low
  8. 30

    Planning, preparing and delivering programmes of study, lessons and workshops for individual students and groups

    Low
  9. 30

    Assessing students and offering advice, criticism and encouragement

    Low
  10. 26.8

    Assessing the students’ level of ability and determining needs and learning goals

    Low
  11. 23.5

    Instructing and demonstrating practical aspects of singing or of playing a particular instrument

    Very Low

11 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
73
AI does it for you
51

Helping wins by 22 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2492

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.3. This one is above that.