How far do you travel?, ... for your lessons ... Options

[Collyermum]

My teacher is about 55 minutes each way, something like 40 miles each way. But then she is a harp teacher and they are few and far between up north!

I found her from the Pilgrim Harps list and she is worth the trip, although I only go about every 3 weeks because it is a whole morning for a one hour lesson.

My piano teacher is 20 minutes/9miles away and is my son's cello teacher, I found him online via a search engine on one of the music teachers sites. He had been teaching my son cello for a year or so when I decided to swap from my existing piano teacher as she was very unwell and I felt I needed a new approach. He also teaches my other son piano too! So it is lucky he is quite close (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Sunrise]

I do a 4 hour (30 min walk, 30 bus each way) round trip for my violin and piano lessons, one after the other. I'm shattered when I get back!

[Little Elf]

my piano teacher is in the same village as me (well more like a small town really). It takes 15 minutes to speed-walk from one door to the other.

[Cyrilla]

Three hours' round trip for musicianship lessons.

Oh dear *feels guilty*

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[Barry Toner]

25 miles each way, taking an hour each way as Dartmoor gets in the way.

I nearly took lessons with someone I found on musicteachers.co.uk who lives considerably closer. However, I talked to someone whose musical opinions I respect who I thought would know this first teacher and was very gently and politely advised against. He recommended my current teacher, who is great and worth the extra effort of getting there.

[DaisyChain]

About twenty miles round trip to my singing teacher once a fortnight. I found her when I joined her singing group on Monday morning's last September. I asked if she was a private teacher and after a trial lesson she took me on. I left her singing group to focus on my solo singing, which I prefer.

I'm having a small procedure done at hospital tomorrow, so after a couple of weeks off, I'll be looking for a piano teacher. I'm prepared to travel the same sort of mileage to him/her too if needs be.

[klavierkat]

My piano teacher lives about half a mile from my house in the same village, in a direct line travelling south towards the river Thames. I am exceptionally lucky to have such a good teacher so nearby! Its a 10 minute fast walk (assuming level crossing doesn't go down)!

[jessy]

I do a 3 1/2 hour round trip whenever I can manage it, at the moment only about once a month, which isn't really often enough.

Big problem with driving so far is feeling whacked out once I arrive, especially if the weather is bad. There's also the difficulty of leaving to give myself enough time without arriving SO early I have to sit in the car for 30 mins.!

[LoopyLoz]

I'm lucky as mine is only a bus ride away, which is about 20-30 minutes depending on the traffic. As well as walking to the bus stop.

I do have a music school just round the corner from where I live, but I found them really snobbish and they wouldn't let you through the door unless they knew who you were. I wasn't paying ?120 a month upfront for private lessons.

Loz xx

[Chris H]

If my son has lessons at his teacher's house, we have 180 mile round trip, but luckily it's not always at her house, normally it's just a 60 mile round trip. A conservatiore tutor recommended that he should have lessons with her. Jazz lessons are a 120 mile round trip every week, but it only takes as long to get there as the 60 mile one. It's amazing what you get used to.

It takes less than five minutes in the car for me to get to my piano lessons.

[corenfa]

20 minutes' walk from home, or 10 minutes' walk from the nearest Tube station if lessons are after work. I found her through musicteachers.co.uk simply by typing in "piano" and "London" and only looking at those in postcodes near mine.

[Pianotastic]

5 minutes by car but as I don't drive I often have to get the bus or walk - walking takes about half an hour, the bus takes about 15 minutes plus a 5-10 minute walk to the stop. I have occasionally had to walk over from work too - it's only happened once so far as I'm officially part-time so tend to organise lessons on a day off, but when I had to do it it took me all of 2 minutes.

I ended up going to the nearby shop first as I hadn't realised I could go the way I did and so had planned far too long to get there (and I was still insanely early)!!

[flobiano]

Wow, there are some dedicated people here. My teacher is 10miles away from me - which is the furthest I've ever travelled for music lessons. I always walked to my piano lessons. My teacher was recommended by my local music shop. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Louise H]

About 20 minutes door to door with a short two stop tube journey, approximately every couple of weeks.

[sbhoa]

Wow, there are some dedicated people here. My teacher is 10miles away from me - which is the furthest I've ever travelled for music lessons. I always walked to my piano lessons. My teacher was recommended by my local music shop. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Same here.
With piano it became necessary when I outgrew my teacher.
I've recently added a once a month session with an accompanist who is a little further than that.
My husband didn't quite see why I needed to find another piano teacher.
I'm only able to do this because my husband is retired and I've been able to arrange lessons on a day when he is not likely to need the car even in the cricket season.