I think that my parents pay my teacher too much but I want to see how much other people pay before I say anything!
Diz!

nothing!!! all my lessons are freeeeeeee!!! wahoo!!!

Nat

I voted £25, but that's for an hour!

Nat

How do you manage to get free lessons?


I pay £30 for an hour - my teacher is brilliant it is worth every penny.

I pay £7.50 per lesson for half an hour, and thats quite average in the north but things are more expensive down south.it depends where you live, the standard of the teacher.My teacher is very good but doesn't charge that much.
Naomi xxxx

I pay £6 for 1/2 an hour but thats mates rates

Flute 1hr : £19.50
Singing 1/2 hr : £12.00
Piano 3/4 hr : £12.50
Harp 1/2 hr: £14.00

.... Wow... I wish I could find a teacher to teach me under 10.00 for 1/2 hr!! Nat, your so lucky!!
Maybe it depends what area you live in? But you can't put a price on musical knowledge
But the Arts in Britain are so poor compared to other countries IMHO... I thought we did OK until I saw some Drama and Music Schools abroad....

xx L xx

How much would $50 (US dollars) per hour be in whatever your currency is? An how do you make that symbol?

I pay £19 for half an hour.....is that a lot?

I didn't vote because I live in the US and I don't know the exchange rate. But for the others living in the US I pay about $15 for a half hour lesson. Can anybody tell me what that would be in the UK?

I personally dont pay as someone else pays for me (uni) but my lessons cost £58 an hour, Im so glad I don't have to pay, mind you my teacher is brilliant!

QUOTE (MBC_Tiger @ Apr 13 2004, 03:17 PM)

and thats quite average in the north

ooh i live up North too!! where abouts are you?! im near Chester!!

Lucia- i get free lessons as i get lessons in school. piano for everyone is just £4 a term!! but coz im great and very dedicated t the subject mine are freeeeeee!!! yay!!

my clarinet and sax lessons are free coz i have my own instruments and dont have to use the schools!!!! My clarinet and sax teacher is brill too i think she is sooo great!!!

Nat

piano-£8 for 1/2 an hour
violin-£10 for 1/2 an hour

I think your right and it probably is cheaper up north, i cant imagine paying £40 for a music lesson!!!!! And an hour of it wow you must really like it!!!!

Natalie- you are so lucky!! Although my lessons are very cheap too (£3 for 45 minutes) it's obviously not as good as having lessons for nothing at all! We have to audition for lessons at our music school though and you have to be Grade 4 before you audition. You're also only allowed to play certain combinations of instruments: ie you can do piano and an orchestral instrument, but you can't do two orchestral instruments because you have to play in a group activity (band or orchestra) for every instrument you learn except piano, and all the group activities are on at the same time, so you can only pick one. I often wish I played more than just horn and piano, but private lessons are too expensive and I don't really have the time!

i dont have to pay for my flute lessons either which is brill. I have the most fantastic teacher who does so much for her pupils. I mean she got me an invididual lesson this year to concentrate on my advanced higher and gr8 (which im not really meant to have!) and sometimes near exams gives her pupils extra lessons for free!!

i pay for my keyboard lessons thou and only pay £25.60 a month!! works out about £6-7 a lesson for an hour.

QUOTE (weejen @ Apr 15 2004, 02:30 PM)

i dont have to pay for my flute lessons either which is brill. I have the most fantastic teacher who does so much for her pupils. I mean she got me an invididual lesson this year to concentrate on my advanced higher and gr8 (which im not really meant to have!) and sometimes near exams gives her pupils extra lessons for free!! i pay for my keyboard lessons thou and only pay £25.60 a month!! works out about £6-7 a lesson for an hour.

all my lessons are individual lessons which is great! my teachers are the most fantastic too, and it helps me a lot when they believe in my abilities!!!!!!!!!lol

£6-7 an hour is a good price but not as good as free lessons though!!!

Nat

so then dizzzzzzzzzzzy!!!!

how much are you paying?!

Nat

QUOTE (Natalie @ Apr 16 2004, 12:39 PM)

so then dizzzzzzzzzzzy!!!! how much are you paying?! Nat

Exactly what I'd like to know!

Hi...

i pay £7 for my piano lesson...1/2 hour but lesson usually goes over the 1/2 hour.. but i don't pay..i leave that up to my mum....

Flute lessons are free from the school and always get individual 40 minute lessons each week with an excellent teacher....

I'm in the greater Manchester area and pay £9 1/2 hour piano lesson.

It always runs to about 3/4 hour though. And he is a brilliant teacher !

£40 an hour!!!
Wow.
Do you people who pay this sort of money learn in a conservatoire, or just have absolutely fantastic teachers?

my clarinet lessons are free, i get 1/2 an hour a week , individual, and quite often she gives me extra lessons in the run up to exams! and my piano is £10 for 1/2 hour!

QUOTE (hgirl @ Apr 14 2004, 10:05 PM)

Natalie- you are so lucky!! Although my lessons are very cheap too (£3 for 45 minutes) it's obviously not as good as having lessons for nothing at all! We have to audition for lessons at our music school though and you have to be Grade 4 before you audition. You're also only allowed to play certain combinations of instruments: ie you can do piano and an orchestral instrument, but you can't do two orchestral instruments because you have to play in a group activity (band or orchestra) for every instrument you learn except piano, and all the group activities are on at the same time, so you can only pick one. I often wish I played more than just horn and piano, but private lessons are too expensive and I don't really have the time!

Wow!
Some of you pay really little!
Thanks for your response
Diz!

all my music teachers for my instuments are brilliant... and i don't have to pay that much..it's all right.. £143 every 3 months.. i dunn really care...coz i'm going to have free lessons after the summer holidays...yeah..

liebe_klavier

dizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy

i dont like being ignored!!! we hav told you how much we are paying so how much are you paying!

Nat

I dont have to pay for my lessons because i get them free as i do both As and A2 music. However i think if i want more than a half an hour lesson a week i have to pay £10 per half hour.

QUOTE

we hav told you how much we are paying so how much are you paying!

I want to know that as well stop ignoring the question!!! You cant ask us and then not tell us how much you pay. Thats mean!!

My lessons are £35 a term for a 25 - 3o minute lesson. I get about 12 lessons a term so it works out quite well, but I think that the reason they are so cheap is that my school pay for some of the costs because I am now grade 4 (working to grade 5/6). The higher up the grades you get, the more the school pay for you to carry on. All I can say is, role on grade 8!

QUOTE (Natalie @ Apr 19 2004, 08:21 PM)

dizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy i dont like being ignored!!! we hav told you how much we are paying so how much are you paying! Nat

yeah I know, you started this topic, you should tell us how much you pay now!!

Nat which school ru at 2 get such cheap lessons? i'm at a high school in cheshire where i can only have subsidised lessons on 1 instrument so my flute lessons cost £4.25 per half hour. Fortunately the teacher's gr8 and gives us more lessons than we pay for per term!! i have to get piano and singing lessons outside school so i pay £12 half hour for singing and £40 an hour for piano. it's worth it tho cos i jus passed my grade 8!

wow, lessons are expensive!!!!!!!!! is that normal up in england? i live in the czech republic... and i take lessons here, though i take the ABRSM exams. i pay my teacher approx 5 pounds per hour..... and thats a normal rate here. i think my teacher is great, but seeing you guys pay like... 40 pounds per hour! i feel inadequate! are those normal prices in england?
dizzy, you gotta tell us now!!
--selma

im wont say the exact school online but its in the area of Ellesmere Port if you know where that is?!what about u?

I'm in Australia, so have fun working out the exchange 'cos I'm not sure what our dollar is worth at the mo!
I had 1/2, 3/4 and hour long piano, voice, theory and sax from $10 - 20, and I'm now paid $21 and hour to teach thru a company (with bonuses of up to $32 for large groups of students). One of the teachers at the Conservatiorium (Melbourne Uni) charges $120 a lesson. He's the ex-Dean of the Faculty and an Internationally reknowned player/teacher/adjudicator though! I think our University teachers get roughly $70 for sessional teaching (ie not a lecturing member of staff, may not have formal qualifications etc). Those prices are pretty hefty though!


I think the current trend in Oz is $10 if you're a dodgy/uncertain/mates rates teacher, $20 - 30 an hour is fairly standard. Any more than that (like $40 - 50) and you're either pretty damn good (or think you are!), with a good track record of exam results for your students, you've been teaching for a while, and I would probably then expect a degree or two (either tertiary and/or the diploma levels of our AMEB system). Apparently the Melbourne prices sre lower than Sydney ones - not sure about the rest of Australia though.

Music teaching is a specialist commodity - and can be quite pricey. If your teacher is good, and you enjoy it, it's worth every cent

i get free piano lessons cos my granny teaches me!
guitar: £80 for 1/2 hr shared lesson with 1 other person
flute: £12 for 1/2 hour! so expensive!
jess

QUOTE (acissejw @ Apr 29 2004, 04:00 PM)

guitar: £80 for 1/2 hr shared lesson with 1 other person

OMG!!!thats soooooo expensive!! i teach myself guitar with a little help from the head of music!

Hi! I pay £10 per piano lesson but my teacher is great and always runs over time so I get loads extra!!!!!!!! I'm meant 2 have 45mins but he normally does 1hr and 1/2. My sax lessons cost £3-£4 per lesson 4 20mins but they are at school. I live in the North West so it's probably cheaper like someone's already said.

I pay HK$1000 (which comes to about 83.33pounds) for my music theory lessons, 2 hours at a time, once a week.

that's a lot... but I've improved LOADS!!!
I'm entered for the grade 8 exam on the 5th of june...

The prices for music lessons in Hong Kong are very expensive. What are the prices like in the UK? I'd like to know what I'll be paying once I get back to the UK...

Billy

Hi All !

I'm just new in this message board.
I was relocated in the UK and I started taking violin lessons in 1999. I'm from Cheshire, and I went to a Music school which charged £12.50/half an hour. I then changed my teacher bec the school was not accessible to where i lived. Found a teacher via a music store in Manchester. Tried her last year, and she charged £30/hr then. It was fine then because it ended up the same (if i included my travel time and fare) . Then i stopped my lessons for a year and only on January that i started again with her. Apparently, she's Russian. Now she charges £40. I've been having second thoughts that maybe her fee is too high. She comes over to my place and her travel time is 45 mins. Does anybody think this is expensive? Or do I need to look for another one who charges at a lower rate ?

Hi Tootsie,

Welcome !

I'm the Greater Manchester area and have been looking for violin teachers recently.

Personally, £40 is too expensive I think.

Most people I have contacted charge between £10 - £12 per 1/2 hour and one was £12 for an hour !

MAybe it's because it's 'Cheshire'. These teachers are in Tameside and Oldham (inc Uppermill).

Fiona

tootsie for me i think its too expensive..

My piano teacher i pay her £5 per hour but when im wif my cuz and we do it together its for £1.50 per hour each .. because we're at the same standerd n level its pertty much learning it together a duet you mite say..
My piano teacher does rly gud lesson .. she fit scales, pratical and some tips aswell.. when i was doing my thoery she fitted all three in quite well and i was quite pleased about that so i still get to pratice sum pratical not just thoery althought some days it was just thoery.

We are learning the same peices and all so you know its all gud hehe..


Anna.

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Personally, £40 is too expensive I think.

It does seem rather a lot.
If she is travelling though she may charge for her travelling time.
45 minutes means an hour and a half's round trip ??

However if that's what she is doing she ought to make it clear how much is for your lesson and how much for travelling expenses / time.

Between £20 - £28 per hour depending on area is about the going rate I think for an experienced and qualified teacher. Some teachers can charge more because they are well-known or professor at a conservatoire etc.

Maggie

QUOTE (maggiemay @ Jun 18 2004, 12:54 PM)

Between £20 - £28 per hour depending on area is about the going rate I think for an experienced and qualified teacher. Some teachers can charge more because they are well-known or professor at a conservatoire etc.

omg- £20-28 is lots! im glad I don live in england! my teacher is the best there is- a professional in an orchestra with 20 years teaching experience, and he only charges me £3.00 per 45 minutes and gives me free hour and a half lessons all the time. I definitely think £40 is FAR too much. There must be good teachers out there who aren't so expensive!

At my school, we don't pay the teacher per lesson- we pay for a half an hour lesson a week for the whole term. I think it's about £100 for the term for individual lessons. but i'll get free lessons when I start my GCSEs in september.

I only pay £13 per hour for flute but that is reduced because I have lessons at school. I have an amazing teacher, so I appreciate every second, even though it is expensive!

Thank you all for your reply. I shall talk to her or maybe look for another teacher or maybe go back to the music school i used to go to.

Again, thank you all.

for 1 1/2 per week, i pay around £10...

i only pay £6 an hour, probably cos i started at an early age n my dad used to work with her, so we're pretty close!

about £ 50 for my one hour lesson....quite expensive
but i know a friend who pays about £90 for a one hour dip piano lesson

QUOTE (alloro @ Jun 23 2004, 04:37 AM)

about £ 50 for my one hour lesson....quite expensive but i know a friend who pays about £90 for a one hour dip piano lesson

That is really expensive just thought i let you know.. if i was you i yould try to find a cheeper teacher but if she/he good enough for you then thats ok.. lol

hiya everyone!!!

well in the area that i live in (your all goin to h8 this) we have a Music support service, which is probably one of the best in england. we get all our lessons free, there are professional teachers/performers ranging from double bass to bass clarinet!!! everything,

the only instrument that is not taught is the piano!!! the service is really good they do workshops and have choral directors, stage musicals free training its superb.!!!! how cools that???? we even get cheaper instruments!!!

however, the standard rate of money charged for a lesson private is £28 pound an hour for a decent average teacher!!

hope that helps!!!

see ya!

jaime