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How much do you pay private music tuition?

35 replies

nosferatu · 19/02/2012 19:22

Just about to start searching for a piano teacher for a beginner. I am in west London and I heard that it is around 20£.
What do you do? Do they come to your house?

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Lancelottie · 20/02/2012 12:41

£10 per half-hour brass, £12 per half hour for piano here.

Primrose123 · 20/02/2012 12:35

Oh my God!!! I teach piano, part-time from home, and I charge £7 for a half hour lesson!!! I think I should increase my fees!

DeWe · 20/02/2012 12:20

I'm in the south (not too far from London) and we pay £14 for half an hour for piano (at their house), £11 per 20 minutes for singing (at their house) and £13 for trumpet (at school).

CURIOUSMIND · 20/02/2012 09:48

Our 121 lesson at teacher's house cost 40 for an hour .But i know some teacher charge 13 for half hour in our area .

jennifersofia · 20/02/2012 00:02

£13.50 for 1/2 hour lesson at our house (piano)

WhereEaglesDare · 19/02/2012 23:50

I am looking into pl too although for now my dd1 is having keyboard lessons in school £50 per term (4 children in a group).
My friends son was attending (they live w8) Sheperds Bush Music House (for 3yrs) and they are ,i think £15 per half an hour or the best is to check their website.
They have fantastic lady called Emma and she has incredible background in music....I met her...
I want to take my girls,but living in nw London and with saturdays already being booked i don't have choice atm.

RaspberryLemonPavlova · 19/02/2012 21:19

Meant to say, have had experience of lessons at home and at school. At home their teacher is very keen for me to sit in on the lessons and see what is required, which seems to work very well for us.

RaspberryLemonPavlova · 19/02/2012 21:17

We are in the north and pay £13 for half an hour, plus £1.00 for lesson being at home. I also get £1.00 discount for having 2 x dc lessons, so total amount is still £26 for the hour.

£35 - wow!!!

livinginlondon2 · 19/02/2012 20:21

We are living in London and we pay £35.00 an hour for piano lessons, coming to our house. Assuming your child is a beginner they probably will have less than an hour, so perhaps it might work out at about 20 for a half hour lesson.

When my children started they had lessons at school which was easier for me to manage and a little cheaper. However we found that they have made better progress since the teacher has been coming to the house. I think at school there is a tendency for children to miss lessons, or be late for them so it is easy to go for ages without making a great deal of progress.

The benefit of having lessons at school is that then you are part of the school music department, which seems to mean that you are more likely to be asked to play in concerts and assemblies and the like.

One benefit of having them at home is that you can quietly listen in from the kitchen and get a realistic idea of how much practice etc the teacher is expecting from the child, and of how the lessons are going.

Pandygirl · 19/02/2012 19:26

We're in the north, and just been offered £20 for an hour at her home or £22 to teach in our home.

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