FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I charge $35 for an hour lesson. Students who wish to only take 30 minute lessons once a week will be charged $20 instead. I do not offer 45 minute lessons. Students who wish to take two 30 minute lessons a week will be charged a total of $40. The reason I do not simply charge $35 for two is because of the gas mileage involved for driving to the same home twice a week for only 30 minutes. It is easier and more beneficial to simply do a one hour lesson a week, but students who wish to split their lesson into two days will pay $40.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Every student I teach has their own musical tastes, goals, skill level and learning style. Having been under the instruction of numerous teachers in the past 10 years, I can affirm hat getting to know your student is a crucial step in teaching them best and keeping them under your tutelage. I assess the goals for the student regarding guitar, where they see themselves in the next few years with the instrument. I evaluate what they know about music, if anything, For my first lesson, I often know a little of this already. I like to create a simple lesson involving the proper technique for holding and playing the guitar, and some basic chords. I have designed the exercise to be easily expanded upon, if it originally proves to be too easy.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have been playing guitar since the age of 10, and have studied under local guitar giants Chuck Van Riper, Rick Fincke, and Paul Chapman of the band UFO. My senior year of high school. I directed the Melbourne High School Guitar Club, and led them in performance at a charity I put on in the year 2013,Rock One Another. I took advanced placement music theory in high school. and passed the exam with flying colors.