FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My pricing system may seem confusing to some people, but it's actually quite simple. I work on the basis of $20 per hour. That sounds like a lot, but most students I've had don't really want that long of a lesson. So, a 30 minute lesson would be $10. A 45 minute lesson would be $15. Then the question comes, is this once a week. My answer is simply whatever you want. If you want 3 lessons a week, or 2 lessons a month, I will try to fit you into my schedule. And you can pay whenever you want, cash or check, as long as I get paid for all the lessons at the end of the month. In other words, you can pay for every lesson you have at the lesson, or wait until the end of the month, and cut one check.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
My most common types of jobs are usually 10-15 year old boys wanting drum lessons. Why boys? I don't know. Maybe Taylor Swift is making the guitar girly now, so more boys than girls are picking up the drums. At any rate teenagers like to learn instruments so that they can start trying to play them with their friends or emulating their heroes. Also, drums can be really loud. It takes practice to make them quieter.
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
Do your homework. Know what you want for the student (whether it be yourself or a child) as far as reading music, playing by ear, playing for fun, or playing in a serious group. Some tutors will only want to teach students to read music as if they are playing in a school band. If you don't want that, then you don't want to waste your time with someone that only teaches that way.