Hiya, i was just wondering wot you guys did in ure lessons and how much it costs. My lessons are £10 a week. I have to do sightreading, scales, arpegios, broken chords, and then we do some songs. I also have to play previous songs she has given me the week before. I love my lessons.

Holly xxx

Hey Holly!

I pay about £30 a month and i learn pieces, scales, arpeggioes...standard stuff and theory of course!

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was just wondering wot you guys did in ure lessons and how much it costs. My lessons are £10 a week. I have to do sightreading, scales, arpegios, broken chords, and then we do some songs. I also have to play previous songs she has given me the week before. I love my lessons.

Hey - you have time to sing songs as well as do all those other things ??

Maggie

QUOTE (maggiemay @ Oct 24 2004, 05:37 PM)

Hey - you have time to sing songs as well as do all those other things ?? Maggie

Um, are you just making a point, Maggie, or are you serious? I think she means pieces as opposed to songs.

In my piano lessons I do scales and arpeggios first followed by a piece of sight reading. Then I play the pieces I've been learning and, if it won't be too much work considering how I've progressed on those pieces, my teacher gives me another piece or pieces to start learning.

I love my piano lessons too!

The only thing is, I wish we did aural more frequently as part of a normal lesson because then it wouldn't be such a panic when it comes to exam time!

Hiya, will somebody please tell me wot aural actually is.!!!

Aural is understanding music, without playing it. So, clapping rhythms back and singing phrases back, and later recognising modulations and cadences.

I pay about £8 a week for my lessons. They don't sound as structured as yours do! If I've practiced my pieces, then I'll play them, If I haven't we'll do something else, like sight reading the pieces I haven't practiced or new ones, or piano accompaniments or improvisation. Sometimes we get side-tracked and start talking about how the piece is made and stuff.
They're supposed to last 30 minutes, but normally it's about 45!

my lessons are about 30 mins and are free woohoo! we do all my pieces ive been learning and usually scales and sometimes sight reading.

How do u get ures 2 be free, lol??

i have lessons in school, so they are free! most people pay £4 a term in school but because im a dedicated music student , i dont pay!

I teach piano and charge £9.00 a lesson i find it hard teaching pupils that want to do it for "fun" it should be fun anyway but so rewarding working towards the grades for both me and them

Wow, clarinet lover, i wish my school gave free lessons!!!

lol all my instrument lessons are free!

even the ones who pay only pay about £12 a year max. i think my school is one of the only ones in cheshire to offer this

I love my piano lessons too! Im officially supposed to have an hour a week, but I almost always have at least 2 hours, sometimes even 3! I sometimes have 2 lessons a week, particularly in the holidays. It can be very exhausting, as my teacher has given such a huge repertoire to work on. She also lends me her own sheet music and CDs for me to learn and hear as much as possible. I think my teacher is one of my favourite people in the whole world (that's why I'm buying her a birthday present this week!) We work on maybe 3-5 pieces in the lesson depending on how long they are. I play through the piece and then my teacher talks me through what she liked and how to improve certain section, sometimes asking me questions about how I could do this. I am also doing 2 studies by Chopin and Liszt and we devise a number of practice techniques for these. I don't do any scales or aural anymore as I have passed Grade 8, though I think I should still be doing some scales! I will probably start doing some more sightreading again in preparation for the DipABRSM, but I'm not too worried about sightreading.

Singing on aural is ok.
but i'm not to good at singing so i bow my head in shame.

Davé

My lesson is only 1/2 an hour, and i dont no where the time goes, i wish mine were more, lol. But i have fun neways.

my lesson is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
usually i will do my theory for half an hour,but usually more than that esp when i discuss the paper with my teacher!another hour will be playing scales,pieces...and sight reading...sometimes my lesson will end up abt 2 hrs.
always enjoy my class and wonder where the time goes!
i pay £45 every month for my lesson!

my lessons are 1 hour long.
and even they go very fast.
not sure how they cost.

Davé

Wow, why are ure lessons, so long??

Hello,

I pay £10.25 for (officially) half an hour. However, my teacher will continue with me for over an hour sometimes if there is no other student, and I rarely get less than 45 minutes.

I'm working on loads of G5 theory for the March sitting at the moment, so we always start with my theory homework. Then we alternate all the G6 scales & arpeggios over about four sessions, followed by aural on the fifth (or so) session. Then pieces. Often the first half hour has gone before we start pieces! Only thing we don't cover is sight-reading, but I do loads at home and don't see much value in doing it in lessons as well.

I'm always working on 3 pieces for lessons at any given time, although we only get time to work on one or two of them in each lesson. My teacher often suggests a fourth, but I just don't have time to really "work" on more than 3 at a time, although I play other things for fun at home.

Fred

Good luck in your theory Fred. My lessons are as long as I want them to be! If I feel like teaching myself for 10 minutes then I do that but if I want an hour or even two then I do that as well! This is the great advantage of teaching myself, and at the tender age of 13 I have all the time in the world to just play!

You really seem to know what you want at such a young age purple it is admirable may i say. If you ever need any help with anything just shout I know there are plenty who would help

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Oct 24 2004, 06:11 PM)

i have lessons in school, so they are free! most people pay £4 a term in school but because im a dedicated music student , i dont pay!

I don't know which rich county or school you go to but I have not heard of free lessons in schools before! I don't know how they can afford to do this.

QUOTE (purple dolphin @ Oct 25 2004, 08:42 PM)

Good luck in your theory Fred.

Thanks! Yours must be any day now. How's it going? Do you feel ready?
Good luck!

trio- my school is far from rich and its not like an amazing place where all the brainboxes go either!

Wish my school did free lessons.

Once they all did.. when I was at school.
There wasn't really a choice.. it was that you could learn whatever was available at the time but instruments were on free loan from school for as long as you were there and lessons were free.

My piano lessons are an hour long - I do Hanon and scales first, keyboard harmony next, then sight reading, then my prepared pieces (sometimes unprepared lol), then analyse my prepared pieces, then discuss related pieces. If we have time at the end I will play duets with my teacher. These lessons are £21ish each...

My violin lessons average about an hour and a half... we only pay my teacher for half an hour but he always stays for longer lol. There I do mainly Fleisch scales and work on whatever I'm learning at the moment. I also get a good grilling on biographies of composers and players, which is very interesting. This sets me back £18ish...

My voice lessons are half an hour long and I start with warming up (we use scales, arpeggios, trills and the Lutgen vocalises which are excellent). Then I'll sightread a piece, and work on improving it. Occasionally I'll take something home to practise and bring it back next time lol. These don't cost me anything - my school lets A-level music students have free lessons in one instrument.

I don't have horn lessons at the moment... still looking for a teacher... but when I did they were an hour long and cost me £20 (I only had these once a fortnight) and I'd start by warming up and then I'd play my pieces... worked on technique etc... never got around to doing an exam although played some Grade 6 stuff.

Wow, u people are soo talented.

Clarinetlover

are your instrumental lessons free cos you are studying music? In our county you get free instrumental tuition if you are studying GCSE, AS or A Level music as part of the course you have a practical section.

Also in our county if you pay for 2 children for tuition your additional children or multiple instruments become free too. Get my drift so you only pay for a max of 2 instruments even if you learning say 4 or 5.

Endanger species of instrument get free instrumental loan too....

frumpybabes

QUOTE (Piano_Lady @ Oct 26 2004, 01:46 PM)

Wish my school did free lessons.

me too...
cuz music lesson costs pretty penny...

frumpybabes- no it's not because i do Alevel.

in my school if you have your own instrument(not inc piano) you get your lessons free

if you dont and you use a school instrument then you pay about £4 a term just to cover repairs on the instruments. the same is for piano.

i don't pay becasue yes i am doing Alevel but its not like a big thing, if you do Alevel you get free lessons, coz its virtually free anyway, whatever year your'e in.

Wish i went to your school???

lol

It varies depending on how close it is to my next exam.

My lessons cost HK$200 (about 14 pounds)

Cool, i dont have a lesson in the half term, boohoo, ill miss it, but she gave me extra work 2 do!!!

QUOTE (Piano_Lady @ Oct 27 2004, 03:29 PM)

Cool, i dont have a lesson in the half term, boohoo, ill miss it, but she gave me extra work 2 do!!!

so she should!

im trying to learn all the grade 6 scales over the hols