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Cost of Music Lessons...

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fourlittlekangaroos · 17/12/2018 22:57

Ok, we spend far too much. How much does a music lesson cost where you live? Is everything more expensive in the south? We pay £20-21 per lesson, 2 instruments each for 3 children...
I think we all need to become vegetarians. There's no extra money to do any holiday music activities (lots in our area) and it's easy to feel hard done by when friends are whizzing off to all sorts of Pro Corda type things. I keep telling our children what a privilege it is to even have a piano in the house, let alone have lessons! I need to remind myself that too.

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MeltingWax · 18/12/2018 06:58

I forgot about the orchestra fees - 30 pounds a term for one and 72 for another.

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QueenDoria · 18/12/2018 06:37

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QueenDoria · 18/12/2018 06:37

It’s something that needs to be looked at. There are some lessons available for FSM students in our area and CLA but otherwise it’s only for the wealthy (ish).
Strangely, I have a friend in the US whose son receives free instrumental lessons at school. (California).
There are some pockets of London where music lessons are provided (thru The Andrew Lloyd Weather foundation).

dancemom · 18/12/2018 06:32

Dd is incredibly lucky. Free lesson in school for instrument 1, I pay just £10 a week for a 45 minute lesson in instrument 2.

She attends 2 orchestras, one at school which is free and one on a weekend which I pay just £75 annually for.

GaraMedouar · 18/12/2018 06:31

£30 per hour violin

Taffeta · 18/12/2018 06:29

DD plays three instruments and has lessons for two
She’s in three bands locally that are run as a NFP so are very reasonable plus school orchestra

Lesson cost is eyewatering but I guess that’s because it’s 1:1. The musical education she is receiving from two different teachers is excellent.

But I do think the lack of free musical education out there to those that can’t afford it or don’t have musical parents is just awful and so unfair

All the older DC I know that play to a high standard either have parents with ££ or musical parents. Something very wrong about that

MeltingWax · 18/12/2018 06:24

It's painful isn't it?

We pay £42 an hour for DD's cello lessons and £40 an hour for DS's viola lessons. They both have weekly lessons term time only.

I teach them both the piano, theory and DD the recorder. We cover aural in the lessons I do with them so their cello & viola teachers just concentrate on the instruments. They have only just started and DS has very bendy fingers (apparently) so a lot of the lessons are still taken up with correct holding of the instruments, etc.

Then of course there's the usual exam fees, accompanist fees, music and the actual instruments themselves.

I try to remind them that they are 'lucky' they have had a parent teach them some of it as there is no way we would be able to afford to pay for piano & theory lessons on top. Although we may need to take a different approach soon as DD is starting to work on Grade 6 theory material which is starting to get beyond my reach and am not sure I can take either of them past Grade 5 piano (which will be DD's next exam some time in 2019).

DS also has group piano lessons at his primary school & we pay £70 a term for these. The main thing I hope to get out of these lessons is extra practice with sight-reading.