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= Soundfly = Soundfly Inc. is an online music school based in New York City, NY. It was founded in 2014 by Ian Temple, a co-founder of education non-profit The Future Project. The company's mission is to help curious musicians anywhere achieve their musical goals, through educational content and personal mentorship. Soundfly produces courses on a variety of topics including music production, business, composition, performance, and discovery. On top of their courses, the company runs a daily publication, Flypaper.

History
Soundfly launched in 2014 with a free beginner piano course, "The Building Blocks of Piano," and their catalogue has since grown to include over 50 courses and 700 articles for musicians at a variety of experience levels. In an interview with Performer Magazine, founder Ian Temple describes starting the company with the belief that "anyone can be a musician," focusing on "creating accessible and highly engaging learning resources for anyone, anywhere in the world, to improve their music skills." Flypaper, the site's music education blog launched on January 6, 2015. In 2016, Soundfly began offering month-long, intensive courses on more in-depth topics. In 2017, the company added one-on-one mentorship as a core component of their learning model.

Notable Courses
In 2016, Soundfly produced the course "The West Side Story Companion" in partnership with the Weill Music Institute at New York City's Carnegie Hall for their 125th anniversary celebration, The Somewhere Project, which used the musical West Side Story as the basis for a "creative learning project [that] engages artists and audiences in all five boroughs in a celebration of community and music, encouraging everyone to consider the musical’s timeless themes." Instructors in the course include Marin Alsop, Amanda Dehnert, Jamie Bernstein, Thomas Cabaniss, Leslie Stifelman, Melissa Rae Mahon, and Julio Monge.

Also in 2016, the company partnered with NYU's Music Experience Design Lab to produce a series of courses on music theory called "Theory for Producers," featuring instructor Ethan Hein. Ethan Hein also teaches Soundfly's course "Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chords."

In addition, the company has made courses with Youtuber Andrew Huang, guitarist Kaki King, Princeton University musical director Vince Di Mura, sleepmakeswaves' bassist/keyboardist Alex Wilson, indie artist Ari Herstand, and more.