What do guitar lessons cost?

[John Prophet]

Whats the going rate for electric guitar lessons?
I am thinking of starting to give some lessons but as usual the question of money comes into play.

I think when I had a student before that I charged either 20 or $25 for an hour, which was cheap cuz I was friends with his parents.

I guess normal lessons are more like 30 minutes?

hard for me to see giving a 30 minute lessons, especially considering most teens now have add-like attention spans.

Anyway I have been playing for 15 years and have full knowledge of music theory.

Here is some of my playing if you want to gauge it. http://members.toast.net/jusjoking/

What should I charge and how long should the lessons be?

Of course I will call around and see what the 2 local stores charge also for comparison.

Thanks, JP

[Brainchild]

Wow I have no idea, there's not even anyone in this area qualified to give lessons IMO.Comparision is prolly you'r best bet

[osprey4]

Just for comparison, we pay $85 per month for two biweekly, hour-long clarinet lessons for my son. Piano tends to be a bit more, I think guitar tends to be a bit less. We pay the guy directly.

I tried giving guitar lessons a few times but have completely given up. Since I never took lessons, I wasn't really sure what I was doing. And it takes too much time, of which I have precious little. But I still coach some of our younger guitarists at church how to lead singing.

[John Prophet]

So thats $85 months for 8 lessons? (2 per week x 4 weeks and some months have 5 weeks)

Sounds like a good bargain from your side, about $10/hr.

I know that in business you like for people to commit to some kind of normal schedule.

I wonder if, (figures off the top of my head for comparison) say, $25 for a 40 minute lesson but if you pay for a month ahead of time it would be the same $100 but you would get an hour long lesson instead. And naturally since I know how wishy washy people are nowadays, there would have to be some kind of agreement that if you prepay and then you cant make it to a lesson you have to call at least 24 hours in advance or you just lose the lesson.

There has to be some sort of gaurd against me sitting there preparing for a lesson and the people calling 15 minutes after the lesson is supposed to start and cancelling with some dumb reason, (or not calling at all).

If a lesson is, say, $25 for 40 minute lesson, what would a reasonable price/method be to offer a package deal for a month or for 10 or so lessons that would be an incentive for the people to commit to the package yet not have me working for peanuts? Remembering that if you have a doctors appointment and you miss it without 24 hour notice you often pay the $50 or $75 fee anyway.

JP

[osprey4]

Sorry, JP, I'm confusing you, two hour long lessons per month, one every two weeks. So about $40 per lesson, and the guy comes to our house.

When I did lessons, it was for friends and their kids and they paid me about $20 for a half hour. I charged the same thing to tutor math (of course, as a tutor, you never have to go anywhere). At one point, I was bartering math lessons for babysitting. Wow, that was a heck of a great deal.

My buddy charges $12 per half hour.