Ryan
Stahle
I've spent twenty-seven years in front of a band. These days I also write about putting AI to work in music education.
Everything here comes out of a real band room. Nothing on this site is theory.
I didn't become a band director to write parent emails at ten at night.
But that's where the hours went. The rehearsal plan I meant to write. Forty progress comments. The trip itinerary, the recruitment flyer, the sub plans. Work that has nothing to do with music and never ends.
A couple of years ago I started handing that pile to AI — carefully, and with rules. It gave me back most of an evening a week. What it can't do is hear a flat third or tell the kid in the third row that today was better. That part is still the job, and it always will be.
So I wrote down what works. That's the book, and the free library is the short version of it.
The AI-Assisted
Band Director
Save ten hours a week and teach with more focus. A practical AI playbook for music teachers.
The Band Director's
Prompt Library
Fourteen copy-paste prompts that hand your desk work to AI, organized by the part of your week they serve.
Get it freeInstant download. No spam — occasional notes as the tools change.
Get in touch
Workshops, clinics, gigs, or just a question about a prompt that isn't working. I read everything.
ryan.stahle@k12.sd.us