How is $60 an hour for guitar lessons?

[taylordb]

Pat,
I pay $100 a month for my son's guitar lessons. This gives him four 1/2 hour lessons...which works out to $50 an hour. Typically I have seen $20 to $25 for a 1/2 hour lesson($40 to $50 an hour). But if you are looking at a teacher that can bring you to a much higher level than you are at right now, then $60 an hour does not seem out of line to me.

[onid41]

pat why do you need lessons? what are you trying to get better at?

[dmbguitar718]

Compostion, and more understanding I guess. Sure, I can play the guitar, but I want to take that extra step. Like Mike said, I want to be a musician, and not just a guitar player. I want to expand my horizons.

[onid41]

Compostion, and more understanding I guess. Sure, I can play the guitar, but I want to take that extra step. Like Mike said, I want to be a musician, and not just a guitar player. I want to expand my horizons.

hey goodluck to ya man

[lyrics101]

I played 30 a lesson, hour each, mostly jazz studies, and we touched on some classical.

It was worth it. Studied under him for about two years, great time, and sometimes he'd let me come up and perform with the jazz band he fronted. He also instructed the jazz band at the college around there, and I'd come in and play with them quite a bit. In all, it was thirty bucks for maybe 6 hours of playing with him, one hour individually, each week. I improved exponentially.

[dmbguitar718]

thanks for all your input guys. i called another guy today, and he charged 70/hr. he's amazing though. one of my friends dad's actually.

[MWR]

Do I smell a discount?

[dmbguitar718]

Do I smell a discount?

ha, i wish. i dont know her that well.

[dmbaddict001]

damn, i feel left out. I never took any lessons and i dont think that you really need them unless your really untalented or are try to learn a specific style. The only instruction i got was from my friends who taught me a G and gave me a squire to practice on. I used the internet for tabs and had a book for all the basic chords. When playing lead guitar the only way i could think of to get better was just practice playing riffs. That and i didnt wanna pay someone to show me something that was much more fun to learn on my own

[dmbaddict001]

I just read what i typed and i kinda of feel like an ass, no offense was intended

[lyrics101]

I just read what i typed and i kinda of feel like an ass, no offense was intended

I'm not offended. But when I sit down with another musician, I expect to be able to say "Play an A13, hammer the G up onto an A for a Dmaj7, and then slide down into a Dm9," and then have that person understand. It also helps that when somebody says, "Run me a quick blues scale on the C," you know that a blues scale has a flat 5th, and know what a flat 5th is.

Believe me, when you learn these things, you'll never understand how you got along without them, and you'll be capable of infinitely more things not only a guitar, but on other stringed instruments as well. You'll be able to sit right down to a banjo, know it's tuned in fifths instead of fourths, and jump right into it by understand how that applies.

[Jakis]

Ive been taking lessons for about 4 months now and its the best decision I could have made. I find I could learn others songs and make some of my own, but with guitar lessons u can play with others and just jam in any key.

[HCHaikuWarrior]

don do it.

[GSR]

Compostion, and more understanding I guess. Sure, I can play the guitar, but I want to take that extra step. Like Mike said, I want to be a musician, and not just a guitar player. I want to expand my horizons.

professional?

[dmbguitar718]

Compostion, and more understanding I guess. Sure, I can play the guitar, but I want to take that extra step. Like Mike said, I want to be a musician, and not just a guitar player. I want to expand my horizons.

professional?

Wasn't really saying it like that, but it wouldn't be a bad career.

And btw, I signed up today for a simply amazing person at $70/hr. Steep, I know, but this guy knows his stuff. I'm extremely excited to get into it. First lesson is Thursday.