Currently, I'm paying 60 pounds per month,1 hour per lesson for Grade 5
Piano. 25 pounds per month , 30 minutes per lesson for beginner Violin.

How much did you guys pay for your music lesson?

my violin lesson are free cuz of this program @ sch:D i think my piano ones are $20 for half an hour. dun no what that is in pounds..

That's not a bad price czaire. I pay £10 for an hour of violin (should only be half, but he likes me!) and £15 for 2 hours of clarinet / sax (again should only be half an hour, but my teacher is now a friend!). I think on average £10 for half an hour is reasonable.

I paid £20/hr for my music lessons, but I learnt from excellent teachers - my last saxophone teacher was PhD (Cantab)

I only charge £15 an hour, but I'm not superman, and I think £15 is reasonable even thouggh I'm a good teacher

QUOTE (musical_me @ Jul 27 2004, 07:11 AM)

my violin lesson are free cuz of this program @ sch:D i think my piano ones are $20 for half an hour. dun no what that is in pounds..

Hi musical_me,

Perhaps you can let me know $20 in which currency? Then I can convert for you.

Really envy you, passionata.

I have known one ABRSM Examiner and his is holding 7 tittles. He used to teach in University & also a soloist. He charges 117 pounds a month for grade 5 an hour per lesson.

What do you think?
What are the necessary requirments you guys look for when searching for a teacher?

all my instrument lessons are free! woohoo!

$20 would be 20 dollars i think czaire

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Jul 27 2004, 12:43 PM)

all my instrument lessons are free! woohoo! $20 would be 20 dollars i think czaire

That's obvious Natalie, but 20 New Zealand dollars? Australian? Canadien? American? Singaporian? Malaysian?

same here...dunn have to pay at all...scholarship rules..

my flute lessons are free as i learn in school

but i'm getting aproper teacher soon lol

piano is £30 for a whole month (4 lessons)

QUOTE (czaire @ Jul 27 2004, 09:33 PM)

Hi musical_me, Perhaps you can let me know $20 in which currency? Then I can convert for you.

20 NZ dollars

How come so many of you Americans get free instrumental lessons? Are free instrumental lessons available to anyone who wants them In the US through school, or do you have to earn a scholarship or something?

No wonder there are so many excellent musicians in the US, what with free lessons, ensembles and band camp etc etc...

This country needs to wake up.

Violinia

QUOTE

This country needs to wake up.

Agreed! Though I believe the Government are going to put in something like £60 million pounds each year into intrumental lessons or something. I know some children in London that have free piano lessons, but then the big cities get a lot more money per child for their overall education than ours do in the South (something like twice as much!!) I reckon we'll end up getting only a small amount of money, and it'll go to the music services. I'll probably find myself out of a job.

Our children pay for everything, including recorder lessons

Music lessons in the States have a much higher priority. Some schools give their children one hour of music each day!! The school near me get 6 hours a year for general music.

QUOTE (musical_me @ Jul 27 2004, 07:48 PM)

QUOTE (czaire @ Jul 27 2004, 09:33 PM) Hi musical_me, Perhaps you can let me know $20 in which currency? Then I can convert for you. 20 NZ dollars

Around 7 pounds

im not American and all my lesons are free.


i didnt realise dollars were different in each country oops!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Jul 28 2004, 12:06 PM)

im not American and all my lesons are free. i didnt realise dollars were different in each country oops!

No probs.

But it gets even worse, with Pounds being using in more than one country - it's why foreigners call pounds 'sterling' a lot of the time, to differentiate

Why are all your lessons so cheap? I'm in ab dip now and i pay 70 per hour. It's considered cheap compared to most who can pay up to more than a hundred.

70 what, £70, $70 (which variant of dollars if so)...?

If it's £70 then I certainly wouldn't call that cheap for a diploma lesson, what country or part of this country are you in? The only person I know having lessons for a diploma pays £20 per hour for them...

QUOTE (Louise @ Jul 27 2004, 10:44 PM)

Agreed! Though I believe the Government are going to put in something like £60 million pounds each year into intrumental lessons or something.

You should read Private Eye: You can see all the facts and figures in there in the last issue but 1

£5 per an hour or 1 1/2 hr lesson of piano if i do it another day of the same week i get that lesson for free.. but she fogets so basically most of my lesson r free..

QUOTE (DavidMusic @ Jul 28 2004, 12:33 PM)

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Jul 28 2004, 12:06 PM) im not American and all my lesons are free. i didnt realise dollars were different in each country oops! No probs. But it gets even worse, with Pounds being using in more than one country - it's why foreigners call pounds 'sterling' a lot of the time, to differentiate

agree with David Music. Because in my country, we don't have the "sterling pounds" symbol. But I had convert the rate to sterling pounds.

QUOTE (AnotherPianist @ Jul 28 2004, 03:28 PM)

70 what, £70, $70 (which variant of dollars if so)...? If it's £70 then I certainly wouldn't call that cheap for a diploma lesson, what country or part of this country are you in? The only person I know having lessons for a diploma pays £20 per hour for them...

I think it is rather confusing now. Maybe we can indicate in which curreny. It will be clearer for e.g, in USD etc.....

i agree.......

Hello i pay £10 for a half an hour singing lesson. The price does not change with each grade.

I pay £20 per lesson for violin, lessons 40 minutes each... is that a lot to pay?
OK... I don't pay, my parents do!!!

= =how come the lessons are so cheap....I pay HK$2200 for four lessons (1 hr each, Diploma)......

I pay £10 an hour for a violin and viola lesson together (half an hour of each, but it usually ends up being an hour of viola if I get my way!) and then I have another hour of piano and theory, half an hour piano half an hour theory, so that adds up to £20 per week.

I pay £19 an hour for private flute/ piano lessons. It's amazing though, because peripatetic lessons in my area are now £18 half hour! I think thats terrible, and apparently some teachers are losing pupils beause they just can't afford to pay that sort of money.

My Violin lessons are based on £25 an hour. Piano lessons based on £28 an hour, organ lessons based on £20 an hour. These are quite low rates really, I know people who pay £100 a week.. but those are for amazing teachers

This is reinforcing my understanding that, generally, instrument tuition is for the well off.
I suppose that one problem is if lessons were affordable for more people then the rate of pay for teachers would be too low (for those making a living from it).

I neither pay, and charge £8. I know that when my current teacher retires that will more than double for me and that without my part time teaching it would need some cut back to afford it.
For those on a low income or with more than one child who wants to learn there is often no chance (as it would have been for me without free tuition at school at the time... and on what was available Not a choice)
I think that most local authorities are charging for tuition now and there are mostly no school instruments.

my school is really good as it offers free instrumental tuition to anyone who wants it. and we have instrumetns so lend them. we are the only school in our area to do this, another school nearby says you have to have your own instrument before you can even start learning.

£20 per week. £10 for Piano Lessons (1 hour) and £10 for Music Theory Lessons (1 hour) £10. Outstanding value because my music teacher is excellent.

I think £15 is pretty resonable Davidmusic.

Cheers,
Craig

QUOTE (Louise @ Jul 27 2004, 04:44 PM)

QUOTE This country needs to wake up. Agreed! Though I believe the Government are going to put in something like £60 million pounds each year into intrumental lessons or something. I know some children in London that have free piano lessons, but then the big cities get a lot more money per child for their overall education than ours do in the South (something like twice as much!!) I reckon we'll end up getting only a small amount of money, and it'll go to the music services. I'll probably find myself out of a job. Our children pay for everything, including recorder lessons Music lessons in the States have a much higher priority. Some schools give their children one hour of music each day!! The school near me get 6 hours a year for general music.

Wow. Yeah, I had a total of 300 minutes of music classes every other day at my school, not counting marching band practices, which are a lot, trust me.
I do, however, have to pay for my lessons. If I took lessons from a college person, I could, perhaps get them for free. I pay $12 (uh...American currency...) for every half hour. That's a really good deal, considering my private instructor is one of the best clarinetists in the area!!

My flute lesson is supposed to be £20 for 40 minutes but I get a subsidy, so I think it is probably about £15 for 40 minutes. For 1/2 hour + (my teacher never sticks to schedule) for when I had him for piano, keyboard and theory, the cost was £7

QUOTE (cecilia @ Jul 31 2004, 11:04 AM)

I pay £20 per lesson for violin, lessons 40 minutes each... is that a lot to pay? OK... I don't pay, my parents do!!!

It really depends on individual... for e.g, the country & qualification of the teacher.

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Aug 2 2004, 08:28 AM)

(my teacher never sticks to schedule)

my piano teacher quite often goes over my lesson time, and my lessons are free, so sometimes i get an hour lesson for free yay!!!

me too...

I pay:
£10 for a 30 mins singing lesson
£7 for a 30 mins piano lesson
£4 for a 25 mins violin lesson (i pay termly for these and i think it works out at about £4 - i'm not too sure really)