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What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons

16 Jul 13 - 05:18 PM (#3538221)
Subject: What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons
From: open mike

I have been asked to teach guitar lessons and I wonder what others charge for this?


16 Jul 13 - 10:42 PM (#3538310)
Subject: RE: What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Any instrument...

40 USD for 30 minutes
Beginner Only

Calcelation 20 USD minimum fee...up to full.

Sincerely,

font color=orange> 100 USD for
half hour for professional training professional.


16 Jul 13 - 11:49 PM (#3538318)
Subject: RE: What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons
From: Mark Ross

I charge $35 a lesson, no particular time limit. If they pay for 4 at a time I knock 5 bucks off the price of each, for a total of $120.

Here's a link to my website with my philosophy on how to teach;

Teaching Folk Music


Mark Ross


17 Jul 13 - 12:40 AM (#3538325)
Subject: RE: What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons
From: PHJim

I charge $20/half hour lesson.


17 Jul 13 - 04:56 AM (#3538366)
Subject: RE: What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons
From: open mike

so $20 per 1/2 hour
or $35 per lesson ($25 per lesson was the price 11 years ago)
or $40 per 1/2 hour
are the answers so far...

good idea about bringing a blank cassette -- from Mark Ross's website
(or these days, some sort of digital recording device, or video camera)

that is how lessons at Scandinavian music and dance camp are conducted
the tradition is oral, and we learn by ear, not by note...
the notation for the tunes is given as a memory device after the
initial introduction of the tune measure by measure...

I find that in this tradition my musical education as an orchestral player is a handicap as I was trained to learn by note, and so have needed to re-adjust my learning to be by ear rather than by sight.. which is a better one of the senses to have engaged in gear when music is involved!

My potential guitar student has unknown experience with music...
and music theory...so I do not yet know if he can read music or tablature....both of which could be helpful skills...

Does anyone know a good memnomic (memory device) for the names of strings? One young person i know said her music teacher used this one? Every Acid Dealer Gets Busted Eventually....
but there must be another acronym that has a more benign tone to it?


17 Jul 13 - 05:05 AM (#3538367)
Subject: RE: What's the going U.S.rate guitar lessons
From: open mike

from low E

Every
Alsation
Dog
Grows
Big
Ears

or

Eddie ate dynamite good bye Eddie

or

Elephants And Donkeys Grow Big Ears