Hi everyone, i was just wondering, what is the average price of lessons, i live in staffordshire and play the violin, because of working full time i treat it as my hobby and play for fun, my standard is G3-4. any feed back would be much appreciated........

I would say about £10 for a 30min lesson if it's a private lesson is fairly good.

i used to pay £20 for a generous hour Private lesson with a registered ism and fully qualified teacher..

I think that you'd generally expect to be paying somewhere between £20 and £30 an hour.

You'll be lucky to find a good teacher for 10 pounds for half an hour, although you might be lucky and find a great teacher who has a rich husband or wife!

Most people I know who charge 20 pounds per hour seem then to charge 12 or 14 pounds for half an hour, which seems fair. However, it is hard to make a full time living out of 20 pound lessons.

There is a slight feeling in your message that a grade 3-4 teacher does not have to be quite as good as a grade 7-8 teacher. Don't be fooled - especially with the violin. Get the best best BEST teacher you can possibly afford and then have fewer lessons. One lesson a fortnight with a great teacher at 30 pounds for an hour would be an option - it would give you more chance to practice in between lessons, and you'd feel less pressured and achieve more overall.

Good luck

I pay £27 p/hour for my piano lessons and £24 p/hour for my violin lessons but I live in greater London so it's maybe a tad more expensive here?



True
I have a one hour lesson a fortnight on piano and a half hour lesson a fortnight on violin (could not afford more if I wanted to) and that seems to be working out real fine for me.
If in future I need an extra lesson maybe in preparation for an exam then my teachers would be glad to help me with that.
I really don't feel like I need lessons weekly but of course depending on the person and/or the grade you are working on maybe some people do? I know for my son who is only 11 he definitely benefits from weekly lessons, keeps him on track (he's more forgetful with his technique and it motivates him to practice regularly, when I don't need that as I have bucketfuls of motivation and a very good memory )

When I used to teach I always offered fortnightly lessons to adult learners.

On the other hand, I only offered 1 hour lessons to the kids from age 6 upwards. That way so much more was achieved and the progress was much faster. With kids I assumed, correctly, that progress is proportional to lesson time.


Also, if you had fortnightly lessons could you then travel alittle further for them - into Birmingham for instance?

That would also depend on whether the teacher wants you. My teacher charges me £10 for half an hour but generally keeps me there for up to an hour (at no extra) and she's ISM, has a degree in music, a performance dip, a teaching dip and she's on the council of an important "body" in music education.

That's very true. When I was a handsome teenager - many moons ago - I had a teacher who was a professor at the Royal Academy. I paid him 40 pounds for an hour, but often the lessons went on for 2 or even 3 hours. I offered to pay more each time but to no avail. Maybe he had slightly less than honourable motives but I learnt a alot and still admire him a great deal.

27 for an hour piano and 23.50 for and hour sax. Thats central London.

Graduate daughter pays her vocal tutor 70 per hour, but this is once a fortnight and is usually goes on for 2+ hours.

I've been having fortnightly lessons since I did my grade 8 last year and I still don't much like it.
It does make sense now as one week is not really long enough any more to make too much progress between lessons but it feels as though life is going at twice the usual pace for me and that I'm losing an awful lot of time.
Holidays now have a huge impact on my lessons!

I rather resent the implication that a teacher charging £10 for half an hour is not a good teacher. I have a teaching qualification, a diploma, 30 years experience of teaching, a 100% pass rate for examinations, with a pretty reasonable number of distinctions and I perform myself. I charge £10 for a half hour individual lesson because that is the going rate in the area in which I live. If I taught an instrument for which there are few teachers in my area then yes, I could charge quite a lot more, but I teach piano, and there are quite a few piano teachers around here, some who do charge less than me. I cannot price myself out of the market no matter how good I am!

Obviously it depends where you are in the country and I'm sorry you are offended.

But, it is difficult for some people who have teaching as their primary income to make a living when others who teach for a second household income charge less.

Lessons with the music service I work for are around £28 per hour for children, more for adults (I can't remember the exact amount) & well-qualified, professional private teachers in this area generally charge at least this amount & often considerably more. My own teacher charges £48 per hour & is very booked up, but she is quite exceptional. There are cheaper teachers around, of course, but I think you tend to get what you pay for, although there are always some very good people who undervalue themselves. I don't know how people can manage to support themselves on £20 per hour.

I've a friend who is a fine teacher and for whom teaching is almost his only income. He charges £10/half an hour, and it's pretty average for round here...

I'm on the outskirts of London and I try to keep abreast of the going rate - mine's currently £26 per hour.

The ISM website shows 10% of the surveyed private instrumental/singing music teachers charged an average of20 pounds or less per hour. Only 10% charged an average of 35 pounds or more. The average overal was 24 pounds per hour.

I pay £10/half an hour for my daughter's flute lessons and £11/half an hour for her violin lessons which seems to be similar to other teachers in the area here and they are both very good teachers. If the cost increased she would not be able to continue with both instruments. She also learns piano which I teach her as finances can't stretch to any other lessons.

My dad pays my piano teacher about £8 for a 30min lesson, and my oboe teahcer about £5.50 or so for a 30min lesson(it's shool lessons. A good teacher though), and my violin lesson prices are going to rise a bit/a lot because I'm having indivisual lessons


I think that my dad would say 'that's a bit expencive' to even a £10 per 30min lesson

I hope my flute teacher doesn't read this - I get on really well with her and am really progressing now after having had different teachers in the past who have charged more but haven't worked out for me - she charges £17 per hour for outer London and comes to me

.

Maggiemay....I think you're doing yourself out of an income !

I'm on the outskirts of London too. (T'other side I think), and £35 an hour seems to be the going rate here. I was a bit put out though when a final year undergrad told me her rates were just about to go up to £35 an hour. At least I know I get a wealth of experience and performance knowledge for my cash.

I have a great teacher and she charges me £10 for half an hour every week. She tends to let the lesson run on to almost an hour most weeks and I feel bad that I can't afford to pay her more. But I do work hard and get a lot out of each lesson.

When I taught clarinet 18 years ago I charged £7.50 for 40 mins in the pupils' homes!! I wish I had charged more because of my petrol etc but I was quite unsure how much to charge. My own teacher at that time was a professional freelance soloist and charged £30 an hour (which often ran into 2-3 hours but I only saw him once a month) but this was quite a long time ago. I would expect to pay someone of his standing at least £60 per hour now simply because he earns in that bracket.

My current teacher sells herself short I think. She's mostly a teacher and not a performer, but her teaching is great fun and motivational which is worth its weight in gold!!!

I charge £10 an hour for saxophone lessons. This will be more likely to increase as I get more qualification's under my belt, liking a teaching certificate. I know my instrument well, and I'm very keen to pass on my knowledge to others! I am a firm believer that money shouldn't stop anyboy from learning.

That's a very commendable belief - but you may find that you need to balance it against the need to earn a reasonable living.

(I'm not a teacher and I willingly pay significantly more than £10 an hour and don't begrudge a penny of it so I'll shut up now)

But seriously, I think 10£ for an hour is VERY low, and professional saxteachers probably won't be too happy about that (and if you're good, you're probably selling yourself too cheaply).

Hehe I am good! Ive been playing my saxes for over 12 years and I'm doing a degree in Music Design!

It is a bit cheap, I know that. It's the reason why I'm setting myself up on that price. When I become a professional in teaching, I will up the price, but for now I'm just using it as experience.