Get your students running with FarPlay — the easy way
New students don’t have to figure FarPlay out on their own. You can send yours to any of our monthly support sessions, where we can help them get set up — wired headphones, a test call, and the rest — before their first lesson with you.
Our next session is Saturday, August 22nd 2:00pm New York time (8:00pm Central European time), and there’s still time to sign up. Our following session will be Saturday, September 19th 2:00pm New York time (8:00pm Central European time).
Monthly tech-support sessions are available free to paid subscribers and students of FarPlay For Teachers subscribers. Come with a student, or send them along on their own.
The teacher’s cheat sheet
Teaching this fall? Our teaching page is one-stop shopping for what teachers ask for most: whether students need to subscribe to join lessons (they don’t), whether students need Ethernet, a message template you can customize and send to new students, and more.
What a livestream can’t do
Last summer, two-time Grammy-winning bassist Oteil Burbridge taught at the Roots Rock Revival camp in upstate New York — without being there. He was in San Francisco for Dead & Company’s concerts celebrating the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary.
Listen to what he does in this clip: he tells the guitar player to play “sticky” to the bass, and then plays along with and listens to the students. That second half is the part a livestream can’t give you.
Creating your Meet profile just got easier
You can now easily upload a video from your computer or paste in a link to a YouTube video. Of course, you can still record a video in your browser, if you like. If you started a profile and stopped at the video step, this is a great moment to pick it back up.
To learn about this and more — including browsing and connecting with other musicians and setting up a Teacher Profile (if you have a For Teachers subscription) — see our guide to getting started with Meet.
Four cities, one ballad
Eden Casteel’s vocals glide over Doug Percell’s brushes on Jimmy Van Heusen’s classic “Darn That Dream,” with FarPlay co-founder Dan Tepfer at the piano and Jean-Luc Landry on bass.
Dan hosted the Open Session on FarPlay Meet from Brooklyn, with Eden in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Jean-Luc in Montreal, and Doug in Orange County, California — that’s 2,900 miles of road between the farthest ends of the band.
Want to join in? Go to the Open Sessions section of Meet and browse live and upcoming sessions or create your own. Jazz pianist Ben Lewis’s weekly jams, for example, are a great place for instrumentalists and singers of all levels to get started (or even just to listen).
Get in touch
We’ve been loving featuring our amazing users. If you’d like to be included — whether you use FarPlay for lessons, rehearsals, jam sessions, or conversations — we’d love to talk to you. You can let us know by emailing us at contact@farplay.io.
Need help right away? Check out our FAQ & Troubleshooting Guide, which you can open from the Help menu in the latest version of FarPlay. If you haven’t already, upgrade free to the latest version.
If you’d like to ask tech-support questions, our forum is the fastest way to reach us. If you need to reach us privately, email us at support@farplay.io — we’re happy to help!
Wishing you a great start to the school year!
—David Liao and the FarPlay team