We pay $60/month for 45 minute piano lessons over Skype. A friend of mine from high school teaches my daughter. It works great! Well, except when her computer battery died, or when Comcast was doing maintenance on our street and our internet was down. :roll:
Marylyn, Rachael says, "That's just WEIRD!!!" And then she says, "We have SKYPE! You can talk with Marylyn!!!" She's actually the only one who uses it. She and an AWANA friend are doing a Bible Study through SKYPE. Hey, totally OT, but did you see the Dr. Who t-shirt I posted on FB? Rachael found it....
$80/month for a half hour lesson once a week...but my piano teacher takes three kids at once. It's actually usually a 45 minutes lesson, but she does 15 mts on a computer program she has. So my kinds wind up one on the piano for 30, one on the computer for 30, and the third "floats." She also is great about when something comes up, letting us switch to another day. When the kids go out of town to see grandparents, she'll occasionally "double up" for missed lessons, taking them twice a week to balance it out. And she's great with them. I'm going to hate if we eventually move and have to replace her.
I really feel special with our deal then, of the 35 a month and ten for instrument ds had last year, dd had keyboard/piano for 25 a month because it was at the private school.
I'm jealous of all you with cheap music lessons! Ours are 25 dollars for a half hour. So, about 100 to 125 dollars a month. It'd be twice that if we were going for hour long lessons. I checked around for cheaper, and that's what all the music teachers are charging locally.
Just out of curiosity, are the rates generally the same for adult and children's lessons? I'd kind of like to take lessons myself. I wonder which would be the better way to go... pay for my child and learn from his books? Or pay for myself and then teach him what I learn?
I am not sure if there is a difference or not, but I am paying for my daughter to have lessons and am just practicing right along with her. Everything that she is supposed to do, I am doing as well. This is helping me to learn, and helping me to be able to show her what to do if she does not understand.
Ems teacher was teaching me violin for the same price as Ems lessons; both lessons were $80 a piece. But she does use different methods for youngsters opposed to adults.
Do you pay $80/per one hour lesson? If so that is closer to what I pay for piano lessons. My older kids each have an hour lesson every week, and we pay $75/per one hour lesson. We pay about $600/month. :shock: I will say that we are getting what we pay for though. We briefly went with a teacher who charged $15.00/30 min lesson. That was a mistake.
WOW!!! I'm afraid I we'd have to drop out. There's no way we could pay that for piano, no matter how wonderful the instructor is!
I never thought we would be paying this much either, but DD has decided to major in piano performance. It is now a priority, and we are now looking for a refurbished Steinway. DS is also very gifted on the piano. I suspect that their teacher thinks he may even be more gifted than DD; he has a bigger than life personality that lends itself very well for performance. He hasn't figured out what he wants to do yet. I had hoped that one of them would have followed in their Dad's footsteps, and gone into a science field. DD is a math genius, but doesn't seem to want to go in that direction. DH had hoped for a plumber in the family. Oh well, if they do as well as their teacher they should at least be able to make a living.
