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how much do YOU charge for private lessons?

#21
My wife is a private teacher (piano, violin, voice, guitar, flute)
Raised her rates to $35 1/2 hr, $50 for 45 min

She adjusts her rates somewhat for struggling families and she'll take a couple "on scholarship" if poor.

I don't teach and am amazed and humbled by those who do.
I've tried a couple of times, but I'm over the students head in a minute. Can't remember "baby steps" at all.
 
#22
Gregory Bruce Campbell said:
how much do YOU charge for private lessons?

I would like to re-evaluate my rates...

and would like to get a feel for how much the rest of you charge per private lesson etc...

I have 55 students currently



I have too many guitar and drum students!

LOL

go figure

so any way...

again I ask:

how much do YOU charge for private lessons?
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If you're in Montana and you've got 55 students, you're lucky that your students don't HAVE horns instead of playing them...:p
 
#23
skeptikal said:
I pay $20/half hour.

I wish it could go longer but my bass teacher is one of the best bass players in the city and he has a ton of other lessons. Hopefully he'll go with the idea of lessons outside the store (gas is $4 a gallon and its 15 miles away) or I'm going to have to find a new teacher.
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If he does do this don't be surprised if his rate goes up to compensate for the lost travel time and cost of gas.
 
#24
Makes a difference whether you go to their house or they come to yours. In our area, the traveling teachers charge more. You can argue whether they're better, though.

If you've got 55 students, you are a good teacher - but maybe not such a good bizness man? Not wanting to turn people away is cool - you should audition your students, and be sure always to take the ones you find pleasing (even at a discount).

Think about it for awhile. If you were charging $20, you raise your prices $5 an hour, and lose only 2 students, you'd be making about $150 more for less work! Sounds good to me. Depends on how much you're charging whether the risk of losing a few more students would be worth it, financially.

This doesn't seem like the right thread to talk numbers, though. Post on the misc. thread if you want to discuss this more. Is that 55 students a week??
But if you were
 
#25
I don't have many students, but most of the people I teach are friends.
I usually go $20/hr or $25/hour.

I'm at school for bass specifically, so once I build up a name for myself, i'll raise my prices.
 
#28
My teacher charges $45/hour. That's classical double bass, keep in mind.

When I took electric bass lessons they were $25/ half hour and $45/ hour.

To the thread starter- 55 students! How is that physically possible? How do you keep track of each one's progress so you can understand their development as players? I was under the impression more than 10 would be a lot of work.
 
#29
i teach private lessons full time i was once shooting for 72 based on how much time there is in a week...

but 55 has been challenging

which is another reason i think a rate increase would be good.

i am also opening my own retail music shop in the lesson studio

and i need to create "TIME" to handle everything i do... (set-up, repairs, lessons, sales etc...)

currently about 1/3 of my students go one hour the rest are 30 minutes
 
#30
I would up rates with that many students for sure. Even if you lose some, you'll still be making up for it with higher rates, and some more spare time.

Side note: I charge $45 an hour around Salt Lake, $65 an hour for Park City folks (land of the Sundance Film Fest, they're loaded up there)
 
#31
I'm just revisiting this thread... i just refinished my updated policy sheet within the last month...

i have concluded to be @: $30 for a single 30 minute session. OR $90 for one month's tuition (3 to 5 weeks) for a full calendar month of weekly 30 minute sessions
 
#34
It's like, on one hand i really want to learn bass, and i want to learn it well, but at $200/month or $2,400 a year, i can't afford it. On the other hand, i can learn bass from a guitar play who doesn't know how to play bass completely correct, for a quarter of that price. :hmm:
 

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