All About Piano Lesson Costs

[phankao]

sleepy:

sandunes:

I am paying the same rate for both kids (G5 and G8) which is $300 for each child, 4 lessons of 1 hour (to come to my place).

Just noticed lesson is for 1 hour. In that case, fees seems very reasonable especially for your grade 8 child. If pro-rate to 45 minutes it will be $225 per 4 lessons.

For grade 8, I think dd's teacher is charging $300+ for 45 minutes :faint: No theory & need to travel to teacher's house.

Oh yah, my ds' is 45min lesson altho' he's diploma level. Definitely for instrumental, no theory and travel to teacher's house lah.

[phankao]

sleepy:

phankao:

Theory is done separately on his own with another teacher, for which we pay S$140 for grade 6-8 theory.

Have you tried group theory lessons in music school? Fees substantially cheaper.
Or more advisable to go for individual theory lesson?

By the way, I pm you the other day regarding strings teacher's attributes.

I didn't receive any PM at all. I just checked again. Don't have.

He IS doing group theory lesson in a music school. Advanced grades for theory, I think s$140 is quite reasonable lah. There's only 2 of them in the \"group\" anyway, so it's really quite good I think. It's an advanced teacher (owner) that teaches them. I already checked around. Mostly not much demand for theory lessons at this levels bc most do until grade 5 and are happy to stop. When my ds did grade 5 theory 1-to-1, it was S$180/4 lessons. We did that for \"express\" intensive training to take the grade 5 in a short while. He got a distinction for that. It was he himself who wanted to continue to do grade 8 theory for his own enrichment.

[sleepy]

phankao:

I didn't receive any PM at all. I just checked again. Don't have.

PM you

[phankao]

Dreamaurora:

I actually charge 20 $ base charge + (5$ per grade) for one hour practical lesson. So grade 8 works out at 60$ per lesson and grade 5 will be $45 per lesson. Now the reason I charge this is because last time my diploma teachers only charged me 80$ per lesson, and I feel that it is disrespect to charge more than people who have higher qualifications and more established than me.

Woah, does that mean for a beginner you charge S$20 X 4 lessons? Very cheap, leh. *hehe* I am paying S$180/4 lessons for my 3yo.

[phankao]

sleepy:

phankao:

I didn't receive any PM at all. I just checked again. Don't have.

PM you

Okie - i read, but I'm not really sure how to reply you. HAHAH! Let me mull over it first before I share .

[Dreamaurora]

phankao:

Dreamaurora:

I actually charge 20 $ base charge + (5$ per grade) for one hour practical lesson. So grade 8 works out at 60$ per lesson and grade 5 will be $45 per lesson. Now the reason I charge this is because last time my diploma teachers only charged me 80$ per lesson, and I feel that it is disrespect to charge more than people who have higher qualifications and more established than me.

Woah, does that mean for a beginner you charge S$20 X 4 lessons? Very cheap, leh. *hehe* I am paying S$180/4 lessons for my 3yo.

I am still relatively new to the teaching field, so I charge lower first. Maybe when I get more famous I can start charging more. Anyway, quite a number of my students learn music just because they love it and not all of them have the financial power to afford expensive fees, so I try to accomodate to them also. And also like what I said, I don't think I want to charge higher than my teachers.

[metz]

Probably a teacher’s charges commensurate with teaching experience and the capacity of teaching?


I heard of a NAFA teacher (not sure if she’s still teaching in NAFA now though) charging $50 for a 45 minute (lower music grade) lesson at her place. My kids’ private piano teacher charged me $170 per hour (beginner’s price) even though she was teaching my son grade 3 and grade 4 non-exam pieces. But my guess would be - I would expect to pay more accordingly if she were to prepare him for exams. She has a degree in music (diploma in teaching if I’m not wrong) and has been teaching music for about 20 years.

[Dreamaurora]

chamonix:

Probably a teacher's charges commensurate with teaching experience and the capacity of teaching?


I know of a NAFA teacher (not sure if she's still teaching in NAFA now though) charging $50 for a 45 minute (lower music grade) lesson at her place. My kids' private piano teacher charged me $170 per hour (beginner's price) even though she was teaching my son grade 3 and grade 4 non-exam pieces. But my guess would be - I would expect to pay more accordingly if she were to prepare him for exams. She has a degree in music (diploma in teaching if I'm not wrong) and has been teaching music for about 20 years.

OMG. Anyway, I am just curious how much fee do you think I will command based on my experience? Have degree in music and have been teaching music for 4 years now. Reasonably consistent exam results among students. No competition winners yet among students.

[metz]

May I say that I am pleasantly shocked with your charges? One young teacher with grade 8 qualification and 3 years of 'teaching experience' quoted me $110 or so per hr for beginners. With your qualifications, I would expect your charges to be higher than hers.



PS: I didn't engage her as her teaching wasn't impressive.

[Dreamaurora]

chamonix:

May I say that I am pleasantly shocked with your charges? One young teacher with grade 8 qualification and 3 years of 'teaching experience' quoted me $110 or so per hr for beginners. With your qualifications, I would expect your charges to be higher than hers.



PS: I didn't engage her as her teaching wasn't impressive.

Did you mean $110 for 4 one hour lessons instead? Some of the top teachers in Singapore charge lesser than that for diploma lessons.