<p>I'm thinking about giving guitar lessons in college for some money on the side. The problem is I don't really know how much I can really make doing that. I know that college kids are typically on a pretty tight budget and probably wouldn't be willing to pay a lot. I was thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 a lesson...most pro teachers charge about $20, at least where I live. If you were a beginner and wanted to learn to play, how much would you pay for lessons, assuming you had one per week?</p>
<p>I would pay $0, but I'm sure you could find people willing to pay $10 as long as you were competant. I know a college student giving music lessons (for money) and he doesn't even really know how to play well.</p>
<p>Well it depends how long the lesson is. I take piano and I pay $18 for a half an hour, but I also take voice lessons and I pay $40 for 45 minutes. (My teacher is amazing, so I don't mind). For a non-professional for a half an hour, I'd be willing to pay probably up to $15. You'd probably get more around $10 or $12 bucks, though.</p>
<p>I pay $15 per half hour for my piano lesson. It depends how good you are. If you've been paying for around 6 years, I'd say you should charge around $10 or less. There may be some people willing to pay that price.</p>
<p>Yeah by the time I'm at college I will have been playing for almost 6 years. I'm a pretty decent player but nothing special. I had to do something for my senior year of high school called Senior Project, for which I gave guitar lessons for free. I think they went well, but I couldn't really tell how well I was teaching because nobody ever practiced and therefore never really got any better. I think $10 would be the max and $5 would be the minimum that I would think of charging...it depends on how many people would be interested. If I can have 10+ students then I could live with $5 per lesson, but with less I would want to charge more to make it worth my time.</p>
<p>depends how good you are and how long you want your lessons to go. maybe $10/30mins</p>
<p>you should do a little session for people who are interested. something free, just to show them what you can do.</p>
<p>^^^ Good idea, thanks for the tip.</p>
<p>pay for guitar? comon....guitar is practice practice practice...just pick up an intro book and start learning</p>
<p>^^ Lessons are actually quite helpful. True, guitar is not exactly a difficult instrument to play, but you will advance quicker from lessons. I know this because I started out trying to teach myself, then decided to take lessons and noticed how much better I got :).</p>
<p>bump, any more opinions appreciated.</p>
<p>usually $10/half hour by an amateur would be fine. I gave piano lessons when I lived at home for $15/half hour and I had about 6 students. Made some okay money. It might be a little harder because you'll need people who A) don't know how to play guitar and B) own a guitar. Other than that, I think you'll do fine.</p>
<p>On a side note, I'm surprised how cheap a lot of your guys lessons were at home lol. I took piano lessons and when I was getting ready to graduate high school it was $60 for 45 minutes.</p>
<p>I used to pay 10 per half hour when I took lessons. Lessons really do benefit you, especially if you're a lefty guitar player like me (which honestly, I find easier since I can just mimick what my teacher plays but that's besides the point :-P)</p>
<p>Yeah...I'd pay anywhere from 10-15 dollars depending on how good the person who was teaching me was. I'd definately want to know the skill of the teacher first, so I second the "doing a little session" idea.</p>
<p>I wouldn't pay anything. In college every other person has a guitar and there is always someone willing to give you free guitar lessons. I got free lessons throughout college on the guitar, bass, and drums.</p>
<p>I learned earlier this year by a beginner's book and by learning other chords online. Next year my school is offering lessons for $300 a semester and I'm not sure if I should go for it.</p>
<p>lessons at my school are ~$325 per credit hour (you can do 1 or 2 credits (30 mins or 60 mins)). My lessons at home were $25 for 30 minutes, I believe.</p>
<p>You could try charging $8-10, but as fendergirl said, there will be people with friends who will teach for free, but then those people won't be serious players. Also, your beginning students will need guitars...</p>
<p>My dad got a guitar from my mom in law school and taught himself to play without a single lesson. He's no rock star at it, but he's pretty darn good for a self-educated guy. I bought a book and tried to do the same, but all I could really play was the chords my dad taught me or that I learned myself because the book focuses on notes and I just didn't have the motivation to study notes. Now I have a guitar class at my arts school and all we do is notes. I guess I needed motivation to learn, but the point is some people can do it on their own but some can't. Classes are always good because they focus on details you don't know or ignore when you teach yourself. If you really want to learn, I'd say find out who/how good the teacher is and go for it.</p>
<p>I'm with fendergirl. Half the male population at my school plays guitar so there's no way you can't find someone decent to give you lessons.</p>
<p>It really depends on your ability level as a guitarist.
Some people tend to assume they can teach someone else to play a musical instrument when they are really far underqualified. This can be dangerous since you yourself might have some bad (unlearned/natural) habits that you would transfer to the beginning player. In addition, these learned bad habits are far harder to correct later on and could lead to health complications such as carpel tunnel syndrome.
I would actually suggest you ask one of the guitar faculty at your school to watch you play and let you know whether you should even be teaching AND give you an estimate of your value as a guitarist.
As a reference, I used to work for the Azusa Conservatory of Music as an instructor, and we charged teenage/young students $100 per 10-week semester, which included 10 private lessons, 10 group musicianship classes and 1 student recital featuring each student inidividually as well as various ensemble performances by the students.
The instructors at the Conservatory are all sophomore and higher music majors in the instruments they are teaching, which means that they REALLY know their instrument and are constantly being coached as both performers and teachers. So if less than $10/wk is enough for a private lesson AND a musicianship class at a Conservatory taught by advanced collegiate music students... just a thought!</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>I think 10 bucks max...no one in their right mind would pay more, unless they're dumb. My friend pays $15/lesson, for an hour, with an amutuer. Do you know what your demand is? See who's interested and serious about keeping with it for more than a week or two.</p>
<p>yeah original, i remember freshman year walking on the guys floor of a dorm and every other room had at least one guitar in it. most rooms had more than one. i was one of the few chicks to have a guitar in her room.</p>