Flat for Education is transforming how music teachers arrange and manage ensemble scores. Whether you're working with a concert band, orchestra, or choir, the platform gives you the flexibility to adapt music to your ensemble's exact needs. No complicated software or extra steps required!
With real-time collaboration, easy assignment sharing, and intuitive score editing, Flat for Education makes arranging music as seamless as sharing a Google Doc. Built specifically for educators, it empowers teachers to create, distribute, and assess student work with ease, all in one place.
Why Flat for Education Stands Out for Music Arrangement
Built for teaching, not just notation
Unlike traditional notation software, Flat for Education goes beyond simply writing music. It's built to support the full teaching experience:
- Design custom arrangements and distribute parts instantly.
- Listen to student progress with integrated playback.
- Manage collaboration, feedback, and revisions.
It’s a true hub for musical creativity and instruction, designed to fit how today’s educators and students work.
Real Impact in the ensemble classroom
Flat for Education meets the specific needs of band directors, orchestra teachers, and choir conductors:
🥁 For band directors
A band director working with limited instrumentation can instantly:
- Adapt scores for missing instruments.
- Easily transpose music for beginner clarinets, flutes, or brass players.
- Share practice tracks with playback audio for home rehearsal.
- Use version history to track edits and student progress.
🎻 For orchestra teachers
- Expand a string quartet into a full ensemble effortlessly.
- Create divisi or unison parts with a visual editor.
- Distribute clean, transposed parts instantly.
- Enable digital annotations for more interactive learning.
🎤 For choir conductors
- Quickly add lyrics, dynamics, and expressive markings.
- Use templates built for SATB arrangements.
- Simplify vocal lines with color-coding and playback tools to help students learn their parts independently.
Tools that fit into your day
- Cross-device access: Create at school, finish at home. Flat for Education works on any internet-connected device, no installations needed.
- LMS integration: Seamlessly assign, collect, and comment on student work, while automatically transferring all information to your LMS.
- Real-time collaboration: Students and teachers can compose or edit together, even from different locations.
- Assignment creation: Directly within a score, create engaging assignments that have students compose, transpose, perform, identify musical elements, and more.
- Smart exporting: Print parts, share PDFs, or export MusicXML for use in other tools.
What Teachers Are Saying
Flat for Education has completely changed how I run my band rehearsals: everything’s faster, clearer, and more creative.
— Middle School Band Teacher, Illinois
The choir students love seeing their parts come to life. They can even suggest changes!
— High School Choir Director, UK
It’s like having a digital music binder that is collaborative.
— Orchestra Teacher, California
Why Flat for Education is essential for ensemble teaching
Arranging music for ensembles today is about more than putting notes on a page. It’s about flexibility, efficient planning, and creating meaningful musical experiences.
Flat for Education provides a reliable, accessible platform that simplifies the technical side of arranging while enhancing student engagement. Whether you're transposing, adapting scores, or assigning performance projects, Flat for Education makes it easy to teach creatively and efficiently.
In a world where educators juggle growing demands with limited time, having a tool that adapts to your workflow isn’t just helpful, it’s essential.
Join thousands of ensemble teachers using Flat for Education to arrange and manage student scores online. Start your free trial today.
Musically Yours,
Flat for Education